The letters below were written by Andrew and Halvor Jensen to their sisters Kriste and Martha (letter of June 23, 1919) and their parents. Andrew Jensen was born April 21, 1887, one of five children born to Halvard and Jacobina Jensen, of Lærdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. The family emigrated from Norway to North Dakota where Halvor was born May 21, 1891 in the town of Milnor. In total, Halvard and Jacobina had 14 children.…
Charles Mack in uniform and later in life with nephew Elbridge.Charles Arthur Mack was born June 11, 1887 in Little Marsh Pennsylvania to Daniel Mack andUrania Jane (Bradley) Mack. He worked as a laborer at Eberle Tanning Company. At the age of17, Charles married Sadie Irene Harris on April 26, 1905 in Lindley, New York. Charles’ brotherWilliam Mack would marry Sadie’s sister Birdie Harris, while a second brother, James Mack,would marry another sister of Sadie’s,…
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…
Frederick Tilton Hamer was born on October 12, 1882 in New Brunswick New Jersey. He was the eldest of seven children of William Hamer and Mary Tilton. In July of 1908 he married Sophia Florence Banker of New Brunswick. They would have two daughters, Mercedes and Alma. In 1910 he was a plumber residing in New Brunswick with Sophia and their daughter Mercedes. He was employed as a plumber. In the 1940’s he would be…
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…
