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Earle M. Humphreys, conscientious objectorEntry/Object ID
2013.13.1.160Description
Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 155.
A single newspaper clipping glued to this page, clipped from the Germantown Independent-Gazette of January 23, ___, bears the headline "Ten-Year Term for Earle Humphreys." It continues with "The following, from the Public Ledger of yesterday, concerns a young man well known in Germantown: Earle M. Humphreys, winner of the Harrison scholarship for philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1917, is in a cell at Fort Leavenworth as a conscientious objector under a ten-year sentence while awaiting the final decision of the war department in his case. Francis R. Taylor, who represented Mr. Humphreys at his court-martial at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. said that the board of inquiry had learned the facts in the case and that is was [sic] now in the hands of the federal authorities in Washington... Mr. Humphreys is 25 years old and the son of John C. Humphreys, a businessman who lives at 5373 Belfield avenue. The father was formerly president of the Business Men's Association of Germantown," etc. Includes a photograph of Earle M. Humphreys.
Pages are 7.5 x 10".Photograph Details
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