Note: Mouse over graphics for any comments throughout site. This Site Has Music which can be turned off. If page is loading too slow Refresh.


<bgsound src="comesail2.mid">

E-Mail


Herkimer County in The World War 1916 to 1918.


Herkimer County in the World War
If you would like the addtional informational paragraph - e-mail and I can give you the write up.jc
Compiled by: Hon. Franklin W. Cristman, Chairman of Herkimer County Home Defense Committee. Press of The Journal & Courier Co., Little Falls, N.Y. 1927.

The Committee was organized, pursuant to Chapter 103, Laws of 1917, to take a Military Census and Inventory of the Resources of the State of New York, available for use in the event of war. The committee was appointed upon the request of Governor Charles S. Whitman, by Hon. Charles Bell, County Judge; Hon. Abram Zoller, Mayor of the City of Little Falls, and by Park M. Barden, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, during the early part of April, 1917.
gold line

    The committee appointed consisted of the following members:
  • Hon. Franklin W. Cristman of Herkimer, N.Y., chairman;
  • Frank A. Schmidt, of Ilion, N.Y., vice-chairman;
  • Chaillie W. Evans, of Newport, N.Y. secretary;
  • Roger E. Burgess, of Frankfort, N.Y. treasurer.

gold line

    Other members of the committee were:
  • Hon. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Mohawk, N.Y.;
  • James G. Burney, Little Falls, N.Y. and
  • Captain Frank Faville, Dolgeville, N.Y.

The first meeting of the committee was held April 15, 1917, at the office of the chairman, at Herkimer, N.Y. First duty of the committee was to select a director for the military census and inventory. Mr. N.E. Ransom of Little Falls was selected to such director. Headquarters: Herkimer, N.Y. He proceeded to make a military census of the County of Herkimer, which started June 11, 1917, and was completed the 25th of June 1917.

gold line

    Total registration in the county ages 16-50, male and female, was a follows:
  • Male, 19,831;
  • Female, 16,800
  • Making total 36,631.

gold line

The field work of this census was taken entirely by volunteers. The compiling of the report of this census was completed July 24, 1917, and sent to Albany and Washington , and one report was filed in the office of the Clerk of Herkimer County.

Home Defense Units
The following is a list of the companies in the Home Defense units in Herkimer County for the year 1917-1918, under the charge of Harlan P. Hamlin, chairman of Defense and Security.
Dolgeville, N.Y.
  • Capt. Robert L. Goldthwaite, 31
  • 1st Lieut. Leland V. Hospon, 31 and
  • 2nd Lieut. Arthur P. Helmer, 25.

gold line

    Non Commissioned Officers and Privates
  • Fred C. Snyder, 31
  • Harold Barragan, 20
  • Francis Pierce, 24
  • Frank J. Cummiskey, 24
  • George Plowe, 17
  • Norman Snider, 19
  • James Fusco, 23
  • John Rymkus, 19
  • Patsey Coffee, 24
  • William J. Lased, 31
  • Merril Doxtader, 18
  • Otto Mosenthin, 24
  • Raymond H. Baltzer, 29
  • Percy Timmerman, 27
  • Claude Pierce, 30
  • Fred C. Holton, 45
  • Thomas E. Rockwell, 22
  • Harold Hornighaus, 18
  • Claude Mosher, 22
  • W.R. Charboneau, 39
  • Ross Pierce, 22
  • G. Ray Davis, 26
  • Lawrence Bogerd, 24
  • Harold Van Alystine, 19
  • Jos. T. Camps, 32
  • Arthur Noel, 31
  • H. Stuart Fay, 24
  • George Killenbeck, 21
  • Charles S. Hodge, 39
  • Ezra Shauer, 19
  • James R. Brown, 45
  • Arthur S. Mosher, 21
  • Harry Lenz, 30
  • Olen H. Quackenbush, 27
  • George Donovan, 24
  • Henry Cartell, 20
  • William Underwood, 20
  • George Cannon, 18
  • Leon G. Baney, 39
  • John Doxtader, 19
  • Harry B. Archer, 20
  • A. Mulorskofski, 20
  • Clarence J. Youker, 19
  • D. Deluco, 42
  • Joseph Zebrowski, 24
  • Ed Fink, 25
  • J. P. Loucks, 33
  • William Ennis, 33
  • Charles Doxtader, 22
  • William J. Towry, 27
  • James D. Fish, 18
  • Ernest C. Perkins, 28
  • Joseph Kelly, 22
  • Paul J. Cramer, 19
  • Glenn Smith, 18
  • Earl W. McGowan, 20
  • Maurice Murphy, 25
  • Linden Saltsman, 23
  • William H. Cramer, 17
  • Bruno Stankevitz, 21
  • Carmele Deluco, 84
  • Alexander Bissett, 24
  • R.W. Potter, 32
  • Clyde Howard, 24
  • Fritz E. Grimmer, 21
  • Walter J. Bustin, 32
  • Bert Bellinger, 42
  • Albert A. Jarckia, 40
  • Leon B. Knapp, 21
  • Ernest Steinhilber, 51
  • Bert Jennings, 32
gold line


    Frankfort, New York
  • Capt. Roger E. Burgess, 38
  • 1st Lieut. Frank Dobbins, 34
  • 2nd Lieut. Francis S. Hollis, 41

gold line

    Non Commissioned Officers and Privates
  • Earl Corsser, 33
  • Harry Drevelaw, 33
  • Leon E. Watkins, 19
  • Herbert P. Grader, 37
  • Frank Brady, 18
  • Earl H. Clark, 31
  • J. H. Brady, 37
  • F.B. Brennen, 32
  • S. Thompson, 19
  • F.S. Bordosavag, 19
  • Irving Seeber, 19
  • Samuel Sanford, 44
  • Floyd Guivits, 18
  • Nelson Miller, 20
  • George Ashley, 20
  • Arthur L. Predmore, 17
  • Ross B. Harter, 30
  • Edwin F. Cameron, 41
  • Harrie D. Eckler, 29
  • H.C. Shepard, 28
  • Walter A. Denning, 23
  • John T. Farrell, 49
  • Maurice B. Dodge, 26
  • George Hinds, 20
  • Myron Kahler, 17
  • Lloyd Barger, 18
  • H.J. Rose, 19
  • Lester Krick, 17
  • Henry S. Kelly, 19
  • Lewis Pratt, 33
  • Russell Platner, 17
  • Edward F. Thompson, 17
  • Charles W. Hayes, 25
  • Wallace Earl Wells, 21
  • Walter Callahan, 16
  • Wilford Philbin, 16
  • Fred White, 26
  • S.E. Adams, 23
  • William J. Baechle, 19
  • Claude Miner, 32
  • William R. Boorn
  • Roy Shepard, 16
  • Frank D. Ball, 22
  • David J. Ball, 37
  • James G. Garvey, 19
  • Donald R. Smithson, 16
  • Albert Thomas, 20
  • Clarence L. Trevor, 17
  • C.J. Morse, 40
  • T. Harold Barnford, 24
  • Clarence R. Bennison, 16
  • Edward L. Boorn, 25
  • William C. Thomas, 18
  • Webster W. Krick, 38
  • Andrew Buckley, 17
  • J.W. Donnan, 26
  • R.D. Jenkins, 25
  • H.E. Platt, 32
  • James P. Mooney, 20
  • Charles F. Baker, Jr., 21
  • Mark G. Getman, 16

gold line

E-Mail


Page 2

Page 3

INDEX

Return to the top!