1.03.47

Print, Photographic

1918

World War I Enlistees Banquet. Material: paper. Size: 8 3/4" x 6 3/8". Description: black and white photograph of a large group of young men leaving for service in World War I; identified are Yep Lun, center, Chinese businessman who operated Yep Lun Laundry in Waseca, next to old City Hall; Henry Halz, front row fifth from left; Leo John Betchwars, second row fourth from right; William George Nock, second row sixth from right; Alfred Meade Hircher front row fourth from right; photographed by Kopman; all posed in four rows outside the Waseca County Courthouse. Men unidentified, names in random order: Chas. Henry St. John, John Reudy, Ray David Clayton, Thomas Edward Benedict, Olaf Skramstad, Frank Edwin Dalton, John Frederick Henkenseifken, Joseph Rolla Greiner, Earl Frank Scott, Daniel Joseph Hughes, Ambrose Michael Madigan, Martin Ragnar Carlson, William Clarence Manthey, Andrew Melvin Borgen, Martin Julian Kofstad, Erick Hugo Mann, Harold M. Frentz, Nicholas Thomas Munsch, Albert August Papke, William A. Androli, Wm. Fred Ladvig, Howard Strong Kingsley, Robert Joseph San Galli, Earl Haven Hall, William Joseph McGuiness, Albert August Voss, Bernard Oscar Baer, Christ J. Villias, Oscar Wilhelm Sigfred Pederson, Olean Elmer Kofstad, William Deidreich Lewer, John Albert Marohn, Edward Joseph Brady, Adolph Hanson, Ezra H. Carlton, Albin Olof Scholling, Frank Arthur Keeley, Theodore Rathke, Grover Harrison Porter, Charles Peter Gigeay, George Alonzo Rimmer, Oscar Bagne, Ludvig Herman Sommer, William Maurice Feist, Everett Fuller, Bernard Dardis, Louis William Converse, Frank Ashland, Leo Alfred McCullah, James Louis Thompson, John Pearl Weakland, Henry R. Mycue, Elmer S. Reibeling, Leader- Daniel Joseph Hughes, Assistant Leader- Alfred Meade Hircher, Ray David Clayton, Harold M. Frentz, Earl H. Hall, Wm. Manthey, James Thompson, Frank Ashland. White print on front: "Left June 27, 1918, Waseca, Minn."

Items found with a (duplicate) album of photographs of all 94 Waseca County country schools, photographed by Herbert E. Suemnicht; see Minnesota Lake Tribune article dates February 18, 1932 noting the set of photographs; he attended Country School District #33 in Vivian Township; served in World War I; came home to become the clerk at District #33; he died on April 23, 1964 in Waseca, Minn. Waseca business: Yep Lun Chinese Laundry, located on the east side of South State Street, between railroad tracks and 2nd Avenue South.