8471c
Print, Photographic
1918
Waseca County World War I Enlistees by Courthouse, May 25, 1918. 8 7/8" x 6 7/8" black and white photograph of 50 men posed outside the Waseca County Courthouse, having been inducted into the army to serve in World War I, WWI; printed on photograph "Left May 25, 1918. Waseca, Minn." photographed by Kopman, Waseca, Minn.; identified, Clarence Walstrom, back row, third from the left (by Harriet Peterson Eaton); Walter Conway holding the flag; Harvey Wolf is second row, fourth from right; Raymond Richard Larson, second row from the back, fifth man from the left in the white shirt; Louis Petersen, back row, fourth person from left who immigrated to Minnesota with wife, Karen, from Denmark; a friend to the donor's grandfather, Anders Peder Andersen, who lived a short while (4-5 years) in Waseca and New Richland, but later returned to Denmark December 1919. Louis Pedersen, his wife Karen, and their daughter Anna Maria stayed in Waseca County for some years, but his address in 1933 was Racine, Wisconsin Men unidentified, names in random order: Jesse L. Moore, Earl M. Barden, Earl C. Martin, August William Schultz, Harvey Earl Wolf, Edward August Laudert, Michael Connelly, Raymond R. Larson, Charles W. Woyke, Walter Reinhardt Reichel, William Uria Miller, Ambrose William McGuire, Edward Eugene Bevins, Oscar William Anderson, Charles Herbert Wegge, George Gust. Holen, Walter R. Conway, Kenneth Boughton Bond, Clarence C. Vossburg, Jorgen Christian Hanson, William John Schmidt, George Conrad Hagen, Iver Adolph Lewis Peterson, Edward Larson, Luther Berry, Clarence Walter Wallstrom, William H.J. Reick, Peter Joseph Barden, George H. Wobschall, Harlie Morris Goodrich, George Billing, Emil Andrew Peterson, Earl W. Mullen, Arthur Carl Pommeraning, John Joseph Hackett, Joseph B. Cashman, John Toffel, Roy M. Grant, Adolph Kugath, Sylvester Sebastian Smith, Paul Roeglin, August Jerome Sommers, Guilbert Duitman, John Frahman, James Francis Vaughan, Albert John Anderson, Otto W.J. Oestrich, Harley Ray Winnegar, Edward Garfield Halverson.
Arrangements are completed for entertainment of Waseca County young men who leave for Camp Lewis, Washington. Dinner at Odd Fellows Hall, reception at Trowbridge Park, program interspersed with music by several bands, and ends with the assembly marching in a parade.