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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 649
Arthur Nelson was of Prosit, Minnesota.
Charles G. Nelson was the son of Gust Nelson of Soudan.
Edward G. Nelson of Duluth died June, 1919. His sister is Mrs.
Edward Peterson, 917 East Tenth Street, Duluth.
Max Neubauer, son of Florien Newbauer, of Ninety-second
Avenue, West, and Grand, Duluth, departed from Duluth with the
first detachment drafted in September, 1917. He went overseas and
died of wounds in France in July, 1918, at first being reported: "Missing
in action."
Carl Oscar Niemi belonged to a well-known and respected
Eveleth family. He was born on July 28, 1894, at Tower, St. Louis
County, son of Oscar Niemi. Carl attended the first Officers' Training
Camp, at Fort Snelling, in June, 1917, and after a two months'
course was commissioned second lieutenant, and assigned to the Air
Service. He soon went overseas, and as an aviator did valuable and
dangerous work along the Western front during the severe fighting
in 1918. He also was for a time on the Italian front. When the
Armistice came, he was on the French front, and soon afterwards
was under orders to return home. The orders were rescinded and
he continued to do reconnaissance work with his organization and
met his death as the result of a mid-air collision of aeroplanes. He
was buried in an American cemetery in France with the honors customarily
tendered an aviator.
Gilbert Winsford Nordman, who was killed in action at Cote
de Chatillon, France, October 16, 1918, had lived in Duluth for many
years with his parents, Julius and Jennie Nordman of 221 East Fifth
Street. Gilbert was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 17,
1894, and by trade was an auto mechanic. He was employed by the
Central Auto Company, Duluth, before enlistment, which took place
on September 5, 1917, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was sent to
Camp Custer, Michigan, and there assigned to the Thirty-second
Company, One Hundred and Sixtieth Depot Brigade, Eighth Battalion.
He arrived at St. Nazaire, France, on March 6, 1918, and \