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tion in August, and in September arrived at Brest, France. Katoski
was transferred to Company D, One Hundred and Sixth Infantry,
and saw five weeks of active fighting. As the result of his service,
he was paralyzed, and rendered helpless in January, 1919. On March
3, 1919, he arrived in New York, and was sent to United States Army
General Hospital No. 29, Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from which he
was discharged on July 30, 1919. He died on October 29, 1920, at
the home of his uncle, Charles Wisocki, 512 North Fifth Street,
Duluth.
Paul R. Keehn, who lived in Duluth before entering upon army
duties, was the son of Mrs. Lena Keehn, of Mount Clemens, Michigan.
Ambrose Manley Kelley was in business in Duluth before being
called to service, being grain clerk for the Kellogg Commission Company
of Duluth. He enlisted at Duluth in the early months of the
war, on May 25, 1917, joining the Machine Gun Battalion of the
Third Minnesota Regiment. Was at Camp Cody, Deming, New
Mexico, from August, 1917, until September, 1918, when he left for
Port of Embarkation, reaching France in October. He was stationed
at La Bozage, Sarthe, France, for some time, and later was
at Le Mans, France, where, on February 28. 1919, he died of broncopneumonia.
He was born at Taylor Falls, Minnesota, January 3,
1892, son of J. D. and Mary (Manley) Kelley. His widow. Olivette
Kelley lives in Duluth.
Fred Michael Kenney, whose aunt is Mrs. Frank Lesler of
Duluth, was born on December 8, 1889, at Detroit. Michigan. By
trade he was a granite cutter, and before enlistment was working at
his trade in Chicago. It was in Chicago that he was influenced in
November, 1916, to enlist, going to Canada for the purpose. He
became a member of the Fourth Canadian Reserve Battalion, Canadian
Expeditionary Forces, and after this nation joined the Allies,
he was assigned to recruiting duties at the British Recruiting Mission's
Chicago headquarters. Later, he returned to Toronto, and
there embarked for England. He was in training at Witley, Surrey,
for a short while in 1917, but was in the front-line trenches in France,
and in action, in that year, meeting death there on August 9, 1917.
Marshall Louvain Knapp, a native Duluthian. popular in West
Duluth and an accomplished violinist, died of influenza at Camp
Humphries, on September 28, 1918, six months after enlistment. He
was born in Duluth on March 9, 1897, son of Jerome M. and Susie H.
Knapp, his mother now living at 17 North Sixty-Second Avenue,
West Duluth. His education was obtained at local schools, he eventually
graduating from the Denfield High School. Entering business
life, he became a clerk in the offices of the Duluth, Missabe and
Northern Railway Company, at Duluth, and was an estimable young
man of steady refined character. Entering upon military service in
March, 1918, he was asigned to duty with Company B, Second Engineering
Training Regiment, at Camp Humphries, X'irginia. There
he died.
Teddy Kovecavich, who was killed in action in I-'rance in (October,
1918, lived in Chisholm. where his brother, Xick, also lives. Teddy
was born at Tisovic, Kalji, Croatia, Jugo-Slavia, on I'\'bruary 16, 1893.
He enlisted in the infantry in May, 1917.
Henry S. Knowlton, who has a place on the nululh Honor Roll,
was in war service long before the L'nited States joined the Allies.
He enlisted at Winnipeg, C"anada, in Company .\, Twenty-Seventh
Battalion, Canadian Army, and saw much service at the Front before