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

658 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
He died at Brest on September 26, 1918, and was there buried. In
1920, however, his body was returned to the United States and
arrived at Virginia on June 12, 1920. Burial took place in the part
of Virginia Cemetery set apart to mark the last resting place of its
World War heroes who made the Supreme Sacrifice.
David Gilbert Wisted, in whose honor the Duluth post of the
American Legion was named, was born in Duluth on September 13,
1893. In the early days of the war, he was a clerk with the United
States Food Administration, but he enlisted in the Marine Corps on
December 14, 1917, at Paris Isle. He was assigned to the Eightysecond
Company and for a time was stationed at Paris Isle and
Quantico, Virginia. On February 24, 1918, he was transferred to
the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Company, Replacement Battalion,
and later to the Sixth Marines, embarking at Philadelphia on
March 12th, 1918. Debarking at Brest on April 1, 1918, the Marines
were soon at the front and were destined to bring glory to their
country, in the part they took in the fighting at Chateau Thierry and
Belleau Wood in May and June of that vital year. Wisted was killed
in action at Belleau Wood on June 3. 1918, being instantly killed by
a high-explosive shell. His father, Iver Wisted, lives at 1201 East
Fourth Street, Duluth.
John Oscar Wuori is listed with the men from Duluth, but he
lived in Gilbert for some time prior to enlistment. He was a Finn,
born at Pomarkku, Finland, March 9, 1888. He reported for duty
on August 8, 1918, and was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he
was assigned to Company Thirty, One Hundred and Sixty-third
Depot Brigade. He died of pneumonia in that camp on October
8, 1918.
As will be appreciated from a reading of the foregoing some of
these men had wide accomplishments and definite capability, some
were worthy tillers of the soil and some were industrious workers
in commercial affairs of St. Louis County. But all were patriots;
and the names of all who have been inscribed on the great national
Roll of Honor, there to remain for as long as the great republic
lasts. And for as long as there is a County of St. Louis, Minnesota,
for so long will these of her sons be willingly and deservedly accorded
the pface of honor in any comprehensive review of the County's part
in the Great World War.