1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

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sota he was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He married Myra Salyards of Duluth and had entered civil
engineering practice in Duluth, with bright prospects, when this
nation became involved in the European war in 1917. He was one of
the first to leave Duluth, going in June, 1917, to Fort Snelling,
where he was given the responsibility of commissioned grade in the
Engineering Corps. As a first lieutenant, he saw active service in
France with the Five Hundred and Ninth Engineers. He succumbed
to the ravages of influenza at St. Nazaire, France, and was there
buried. His military record was good, and promotion to the grade
of captain came to him on the day of his funeral.
Bryan Allen, who died in May, 1918, was a member of Battery C,
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Field Artillery, a unit originally
belonging to the Minnesota National Guard. He was the son of Leo
Allen, of 315 South Fifteenth Avenue, east, Duluth.
Francis Allie, who died in France, of wound received on July
16, 1918, right at the beginning of the great Allied counter-ofifensive,
which did not end until the enemy went down in final defeat, in
November, 1918. He was well-known in West Duluth and was
assigned to, and saw active service with, the Machine Gun Company
of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Field Artillery, Battery B.
Alfred J. Anderson enlisted from Duluth. His sister is Mrs. D.
Lake, of 1308 East Fifth Street.
Dr. John Andres practiced his profession iii Duluth before
entering the Medical Department of the United States army.
Robert Arbelus, whose place of enlistment was Ely, is survived
by a sister, Mrs. Minnie Retois, now resident in Iron Belt, Wisconsin.
Hillard Aronson belonged to a well-known Tower family. He
was born in Tower, son of John and Beda Aronson, and was in lucrative
business with his brother, as boat owners on Lake Vermilion.
He registered early in 1917, but was not called into military service
until June 24, 1918, on which day he reported at Ely for duty, as a
private in the Infantry of the National Army. He was assigned to
Company C, Three Hundred and Thirty-third Machine Gun Battalion,
Eighty-sixth Division, at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, and after
an intensive course of machine-gun training was transferred to Camp
Mills, New York. On September 14, 1918, he embarked on the
British troopship "Olympic," and on September 20th, arriver at Southampton.
Conditions of sea-travel in that time of shipping scarcity
were rigorous, the troopships being much overcrowded. Yoimg
Aronson contracted sickness on the voyage and eight days after being
landed at Southampton died of Lobar Pneumonia at Shirley Warren
Hospital, Southampton, England. His body was interred in the
United States Military Cemetery, Magdalen Hill, Winchester, England,
on September 29, 1918, but eventually the body was disinterred
and l)rought back to the United States by the government. His
remains now rest in Forest Hill Cemetery, Duluth, the funeral taking
place, with military ceremonies, on June 3. 1920.
Mike F. Bagley is claimed as a Duluthian. He was a married
man and his widow, Alice, still lives at 318 West Fourth Street,.
Duluth.
Lorenta Bakke. whose name is in the Duluth records, resided
at 3614 West Fourth Street, Duluth, prior to enlistment. His father,
Ulrik B., lives in Bergen, Norway.
Glenn J. Ball, who was killed in action on September 5. 1918.
on the French front, was a machinist in the employ of the South