World War Memorial

Photograph

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

World War Memorial

Entry/Object ID

2013.13.1.43a-c

Description

Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 41 Three newspaper clippings are glued to page 41 of the Keyser scrapbook. The first [41a] is a 1919 article of a list of names for the World War I memorial, to be placed in two tablets "in the rotunda of the new Germantown Municipal Building, Germantown avenue and Haines street." The names proposed for the tablet include: Frank E. Amrhine, John H. Andrews, Bernard Aspell, Alexander Ballfour, Edward G. Bamford, Ernest Ives Bardsley, John P. Barrett, Marcia Maxwell Bartle, Charles Littell Beatty, Stanley H. Berry, Domenick Blotto, Albert R. Bolay, Mark V. Bond, Cornelius James Boyle, John Briedenfield, Richard Briggs, Vincent Byrne, Arthur Leslie Cannon, William John Carbey, Clifton Maxwell Casey, Carl B. Chamberlin, Anthony Cimino, Mortimer Park Crane, Joseph P. Crawford, Brinton Smith Cummings, Harold D. Cupitt, Richard Foulke Day, James Vincent Devenny, Herbert Kohl Dewees, William Boulton Dixon, Thomas Dooney, James J. Duffy, James Kennard Dunn Jr., Thomas P. Durrick Jr., John Joseph Earner, Frank E. Erb, Charles Thomas Evans Jr., Jacques A. Feichter, James Gamble Fleming, John Harold Fox, John J. Golden, Stephen Joseph Hanrahan, William Hedges, Paul MacAllister Henkels, Harrison M. Hilton, Edward Hitner, Earl Ely Horsey, Charles Joseph Houston, Henry Howard Houston II, James Francis Hughes, Clement Cresson Kite, Harrison Knox, Thomas Edwin Kriebel, Louis Krouse, Paul Borda Kurtz, Clinton W. Laird, Benjamin Lee II, Harry West Linaka, Brooks Lister, Robert J. McCamman, Thomas J. McCann, Hugh McGonigle, William P. McGoohan, Charles Vincent Macken, Edward J. Malone Jr., William J. Merkle, Thomas Henry Miles Jr., Ralph Thurman Mills, William Garman Myers, Clark Brockway Nichol, Horace J. O'Donnell, Benjamin Franklin Pepper, William Joseph Perkins, John Edward Potterton, John Potts, John Henry Burd Quinn, Alfred Lockwood Quintard, Hilary B. Rex, J. Sandora, Harold Johnson Sheppard, George P. Shepherdson, Charles Hart Shriver, William Sibel, Philip A. Simmons, George J. Slater, Alexander Smiley, James M. Smith, Gerald F. Speck, William J. Turner, Edwin Thorp Vandusen, Charles Mackay Waterhouse, Walter N. Wells, George F. Whitson, Preston Moffett Wright, Henry Houston Howard Woodward, Edward Frank Yearsley, Jacob Zaun III. Article 41b announces "Fund Completed for World War Memorial- Public Meeting Tomorrow Night at the Y. M. C. A. Will Celebrate Attainment- 108 Names for Tablets." Additional names for the tablets include George M. Armstrong, Edward F. Bennis Jr., George M. Brooks, Thomas Dooney, George W. Esher, Ernest F. Hauser, Henry David Welsh Reichert, Herman P. Saylor, Edward Wilkinson, Benjamin R. Woodworth. The third and final article [41c], circa 1925, announces the "Memorial Drive Goes Over Top," and that "Charles H. Grakelow, Director of Welfare, was present and made an address, and there was good singing and other interesting features." He was present at the meeting "for the celebration of the victory" which was held at the Y. M. C. A. Pages are 7.5 x 10".

Photograph Details

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

unknown

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection

Made/Created

Artist

N/A

Studio

Unknown

Date made

1918 - 1925

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