Harry Grover Sorber was born August 1, 1895. He left school after the 8th Grade, and worked as blacksmith, residing in Hunlock Creek, Pa. He was inducted in to the service on April 30, 1918 at Shickshinny, Pa, and served as a horseshoer in Battery E of the 314th Field Artillery. He was discharged on June 7, 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia. After the war Harry worked as a carpenter at a coal company. He…
Charles Morse Luther, the son of William A. and Ada C. (Rogers) Luther, was born in Johnston, R.I.on January 19, 1891. He served as a corporal in Co 470 of Motor Supply Train 418. He returnedto the United States on the USS Mount Vernon which left Brest on June 28, 1919, arriving inHoboken N.J, on July 5, 1919.In 1920 he was employed as a jitney chauffeur and resided with his brother Frank and sister-in-law Mabel…
Alfred Otto Veigel was born January 5, 1900 in Belleville Illinois, the child of German immigrants. At the time of his enlistment he resided in Belleville and was employed at the American Battery and Carbon Works. Together with his friend Raymond Yaekel, he enlisted in the army on May 4, 1918. He from New York to Europe on July 14th where he served in the 62nd Engineers on a medical detachment, and in the 86th…
Robert Presley Thornton was born July 26, 1893 in Nelson County, Virginia, the son of Robert H. Thornton and Sarah B. Thornton. A chemist, he attended the agriculture college at Clemson University where he was the president of the tennis club and a member of the Calhoun Literary Society, graduating in 1915. After the war he founded Thornton Laboratories, Inc. in Tampa, Florida. He died January 14, 1979 at the age of 85 and was…
