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pupils in the grade schools. Those of high school age and qualifica- tions are sent to the Dedham High School, or the Norwood High School, by arrangements made with those towns. There were also in that year six Westwood pupils attending the Norfolk Agricultural School.
One of the famous residents of Westwood is General Clarence R. Edwards who enjoys the quieter years of his life at "Dunrovin," his pleasant home in the Islington section of the town.
WEYMOUTH
Quincy is the only city in Norfolk County, Brookline might have a city government but refuses, and Weymouth comes next with more than 17,000 inhabitants. There are more than 2,000 children in the pub- lic schools. The school buildings reflect credit upon the town, with a million dollar high school building in process of erection. Modern con- veniences and appliances, a superintendent and more than fifty teachers help teach the young idea how to shoot. There has been a high school since 1853. It was located in the Town House erected the year be- fore. Joseph Dow was the first teacher. In 1865 two high schools were established, North and South, and these two remained in exist- ence until a new building was erected in 1898.
Weymouth is well supplied with churches, four Catholic and four- teen Protestant. The town has always been noted for its ecclesiastical atmosphere and activity. Former President William Howard Taft was one of the speakers at the Ter-centenary celebration of the town, June 16, 1923, and at that time said: "There came in 1635 another min- ister with twenty-one families and settled here, and then the town ac- quired the name of Weymouth. They were allowed to 'sit down' by a resolution of the General Court, and they sat, but it did not bring peace because between 1635 and 1644 this town of Weymouth was a sort of battleground for ministers seeking to establish their particular congregations and their particular ministry here. Things were more peaceable in Plymouth and more peaceable in Boston, but here there was real freedom of discussion. There were four ministers who strug- gled to succeed; one of them wrote Cruden's 'Concordance,' although he did not get the credit for it-he had time to do that while he was waiting for a pulpit."
The town has a municipal water works with a hundred miles of main line pipe and modern equipment and supply equal to demand for all emergencies. It has a well-equipped and efficient fire department, lighting system, light and power taken from the Weymouth Electric Light and Power Company.
Transportation facilities include two lines of the New York, New
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Haven & Hartford Railroad, lines of the Old Colony Street Railway Company and one hundred and twenty miles of good highways for motor and horse-drawn vehicles.
The largest fertilizer works in the country are those of the American Agricultural Chemical Company at North Weymouth. Shoe manufac- turing has always been an important industry in the town and high grade footwear has been the product which has become internationally known for its excellence of workmanship. Other manufactured prod- ucts include counters, heels and fireworks.
Weymouth is a beautiful town, situated on the seacoast, affording boating, bathing, diversified scenery, and with the best qualities ob- tainable from association with salt water. The town is twelve miles from Boston and easy of access for business men who wish to reside in a town filled with residential charms.
The Weymouth Historical Society, organized April 12, 1879, has a fine collection of historical matter, deeds, maps and plans. It has a museum filled with interesting things, available for public inspection.
Fraternal organizations have always appealed to Weymouth men and women and have stood well in the records with other societies and lodges of the orders to which they belong. Patriotism has been a characteristic of the town and patriotic organizations have enjoyed the loyalty and enthusiasm of members.
The town of Weymouth observed its three hundredth anniversary Juue 16, 1923, in a very successful and democratic manner. Exercises on Great Hill and at the Clapp Memorial were open to everyone. There was no reserved grandstand on the line of march. Among the speak- ers was William Howard Taft, at that time Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States, a former President of the United States and, as he stated in his address, "a descendant of the Torrey family, the first of whom, Captain William Torrey, settled in Wey- mouth in 1640."
The oldest Puritan settlement in Massachusetts was at the place the Indians called Wessagussett. According to an old record: "In 1622, Thomas Weston, a merchant of good reputation in London, having procured for himself a patent for a tract of land in Massachusetts Bay, sent two ships, with fifty or sixty men, at his own charge, to settle a plantation. Many of the adventurers being sick on their arrival at Plymouth, most of the company remained there during the greater part of the summer, and were treated with hospitality and kindness by the inhabitants. Some of their number, in the meantime, finding a place in the Bay of Massachusetts, named Wessagussett, which they judged convenient for a settlement, the whole company removed to it and be- gan a plantation."
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It is also stated in an early record "that the few inhabitants of Wes- sagussett, receiving an accession to their number from Weymouth, Eng- land, the town is supposed to have hence been called Weymouth." In 1635, twenty-one families joined the settlement, one of their number being Rev. Joseph Hull who became their first pastor.
Two inlets making in from the bay, Fore River and Back River, give the town a waterfront of from eight to nine miles and a good landing place for vessels of light burthen. One hundred years ago about eight hundred tons of shipping was owned in the town. A large amount of business in lumber and coal has been done on the two rivers.
For many years farming was the principal industry of the town. Little by little manufacturing has become more important. From early times boot and shoemaking has been an important industry and the town has been noted for the quality of its workmen in leather. Mill River, rising in Great Pond and flowing to tide water, has numerous water privileges which have been used from early times to turn water wheels for such industries as grinding corn into meal, sawing lumber, making boxes, and various other things. For many years iron ore was taken from the ponds and used for manufacturing nails. Ship- building has been an important industry. The making of fireworks, fish glue and hammocks flourished many years and furnished employ- ment for a large number of inhabitants.
WRENTHAM
When Wrentham was first set off from Dedham in 1661, it consisted of sixteen families. It was incorporated in 1673, but there was no church formed until 1692, when Rev. Samuel Mann, was ordained as the first minister.
Samuel Shears was the first English inhabitant of Wrentham and his daughter, Mehitable Shears, was the first white person born in the town. Some of the first settlers came from the town of Wrentham in England and chose to live in a town of the same name, even if an ocean tossed between them.
At the time of King Philip's War there were two houses in which people were ill with smallpox. The Indians did not molest those houses or their occupants but burned all the other houses. After the war most of the settlers returned and began rebuilding the town. Rev. Samuel Mann was one who returned and remained pastor of the church until his death in 1719, terminating a pastorate of twenty-seven years.
The inhabitants of Wrentham have, early and late, generously pro- vided educational opportunities for the rising generations. It is a century ago that Benjamin R. Cheever of Philadelphia, gave the sum of one hundred dollars to Wrentham, his native town, in aid of its
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school fund. The income from this fund has never been diverted from the purpose for which it was given, even in the straits of the Revolu- tionary War.
Day's Academy was incorporated in 1806. The story is told briefly on a tombstone in the Wrentham burying ground: "In memory of Mr. Benjamin Day, who died February 26, 1816, aged ninety years and eight months. He was distinguished for industry, economy, justice, benevolence and piety. He was the principal benefactor in Day's Acad- emy, and gave a fund for the support of the communion table. His other deeds of charity were numerous; while he has gone to his rest his usefulness continues."
There have been cotton and woolen mills and those for the manufac- ture of boots and shoes and straw bonnets in this town, the straw in- dustry being the most important. Present-day manufacturing include taps and dies. The population is 3,054.
Wrentham is a town of exceptional advantage and of unusual inter- est from a present and historical point of view. Its natural beauties include a chain of lovely lakes, on the borders of which are attractive summer homes. Lake Pearl and Lake Archer are included and are es- specially delightful and popular.
Among the distinguished persons who have made their homes in Wrentham in recent years has been Helen Keller, the phenomenal lady who overcame the handicaps of the loss of three out of five of the physical senses and outstripped in intellectual achievement and broad outlook on life most persons of her generation blessed with all five. Wrentham people knew well Helen Adams Keller and her devoted in- structress, Anne Sullivan Macy, when they took rides and walks about the town, before Miss Keller-or shall we say the two ?- became author, lecturer, philanthropist. It was Mark Twain who said that the two most interesting characters of the nineteenth century were Na- poleon and Helen Keller.
When Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Paris with the remark : "Well, we are here," he gave the personal pronoun "we" a new significance. Even the traditional editorial "we" was out-flown. Colonel Lindbergh's printed book of his most famed escapade bore the title "We." It was translated into Braille type for blind readers and Miss Keller read the story at her present home in Forest Hills, Long Island. It is believed "Lindy" and "The Spirit of St. Louis" constituted one outstanding "we" of the present day, and Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy another "we," of whom the world can well pay its respects as to a plural personalty. Where did cooperation between pupil and teacher ever achieve a more wonderful result?
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Nearly All of Norfolk County's Twenty-eight Towns Contributed to the Sacred Dust "In Flanders Field, Where Poppies Grow"-Some Were Engaged in Foreign Service, Fighting Under an Alien Flag for a Common Cause-Traditions of the Coast Towns Observed in Those Who Served in the Navy-Only City in the County Furnished Ships as Well as Men in the War for Democracy-Honor Roll.
A veteran of the Civil War who took part in numerous battles and was badly wounded in one, used to insist that he fought but one battle bravely and that was the mental battle which he fought and won alone, in making his decision to volunteer for the war. In all the other battles in which he participated, he was under orders and did as he was told. The battle in which he was the general as well as the soldier, the man behind the gun, in which a free moral agent determined to become one with the cause of his country, was fought at home just previous to enlistment.
Something of the same conviction comes to one who sets upon the task of listing an Honor Roll of the boys who took part in the World War. The unreturned who gave their lives are entitled to all the honors which can be given their memory. Those who fought equally well and, through kinder fortunes of war, came back when it was "Over, Over There," were equally heroic and equally entitled to honor.
It is impossible, however, to give a list in a work of this kind of all whose hearts beat consecratedly to the music of the war drum. There is presented, as a substitute, a list of those who were killed in action* or died in the service.
As has been stated in connection with the Honor Rolls of the other counties, this list has been made up as accurately as facilities and careful search of records have permitted. The list is included in, the general copyright of the whole history and is not to be republished without written permission of the writer. Acknowledgement is made of most generous cooperation on the part of those engaged in making a list of such a nature for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
AVON
*Andrew Louis Goeres, Private: killed in action, Oct. 16, 1918, (near Cote de Chatillon). Enl. April 25, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. May 24, to Co. L, 301 Inf., 76 Plym-72
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Div .; July 31, to Co. A, 163 Inf., 41 Div .; Aug. 6, to Co. K, 165 Inf., 42 Div. Overseas, July 6, 1918.
Andrew Louis Goeres was born October 8, 1895, at Avon, son of John Franklin and Mary Alice (McCabe) Goeres; brother of Minnie J., Dorothy A., Grace M., and Ruth T. Goeres, all of Avon. Shoe worker, employed in Brockton.
Edward Allen Hobart, Pharmacist's Mate, 2nd class, U. S. N .: died Nov. 28, 1918 (of influenza), at Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. Enl. April 4, 1917, Hospital Apprentice, April 6, to Naval Tng. Station, Great Lakes, Ill .; May 5, to U. S. S. "Solace;" Feb. 14, 1918, to Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., promoted Pharmacist's Mate 2 class.
Edward Allen Hobart was born May 22, 1896, at Brockton, son of J. Allen and Sarah (Genders) Hobart (both deceased).
*Charles Wesley Whiting, Private: died Sept., 1918, at Barbonval, of wounds received in action. En1. Feb. 25, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. March 18, to Hq. Co. 308 Inf., 77 Div. Overseas, April 6, 1918. Post 200, A. L., of Avon, named in his memory. D. S. S. "For extraordinary heroism in action near Barbonval, Sept. 10, 1918. He had charge of maintaining a telephone line from Barbonval to Blanzy. The line was under observation of the enemy, and appearance of a lineman was the immediate occasion for shelling by the enemy with field artillery and one pounders. He stuck to his work, repairing break after break, until he was mortally wounded by the enemy shell fire."
BELLINGHAM
Herbert B. Arnold, Private: died Nov. 3, 1919, at Field Hospital No. 4, Bere- sovka, Siberia. Enl. Oct. 7, 1903, R. A., Co. 3, 5 U. S. Inf .; trans. Sept. 30, 1906, to Co. C, 5 U. S. Inf., and honorably discharged Oct. 6, 1906. Re-enlisted Dec. 19, 1906, Co. I, 23 U. S. Inf., and honorably discharged Jan. 5, 1908. Re- enlisted Jan.|6, 1908, Co. I, 23 U. S. Inf., and discharged Jan. 5, 1911. Re-enlisted March 30, 1911, Co. A, 11th U. S. Inf., and honorably discharged March 31, 1914. Re-enlisted June 26, 1914, Co. B, 8th Inf .; trans. Aug. 10, 1918, to Co. B, 27 U. S. Inf. Overseas, Aug. 10. 1918.
Herbert B. Arnold was born January 29, 1876, in North Bellingham, son of Francis E. and Harriett M. (Bartlett) Arnold (both deceased). Married, January 26, 1899, Flora E. Ames (deceased). Children : Mrs. Carrie V. (Arnold) Ward of Providence, Rhode Island, and Frank E. Arnold of North Bellingham. Mill operative.
Edward Leon Spencer, Fireman, 2 class, U. S. N. R. F .: died Sept. 26, 1918, of pneumonia, at Quarantine Station, Gallops Island. Enl. Feb. 18, 1918, assigned to Naval Tng. Camp, Hingham; April 10, to Naval Hospital, Chelsea; May 23, to Naval Tng. Camp, Hingham.
Edward Leon Spencer was born May 11, 1893, at Bellingham, son of James A. (deceased) and Emma S. (Adams) Spencer of Bellingham; brother of Albert J. Spencer and Myrtle (wife of Percy) Van Note, both of Bellingham; Ella (wife of Joseph) Cook of Cumberland, Rhode Island, Lida (wife of George) Jepson of West Roxbury, and Lilla (wife of Walter) Noble of Sidney, Maine. Married Florence Sherman
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(Mrs. Kingsbury of Holliston, 1925). Machinist. Post 218, A. L., of Bellingham, named in his memory.
BRAINTREE
*John Crosby Bridgham, Private: killed in action, Oct. 5, 1918 (near Brieulles). Enl. April 25, 1918, 151 D. B .; trans. to Co. G, 301 Inf .; July 31, 1918, to Co. B, 163 Inf .; Aug. 10, 1918, to Co. K, 58 Inf., 4 Div. Overseas, July 6, 1918.
John Crosby Bridgham was born September 26, 1895, at South Braintree, son of Stafford S. and Emma (Oulton) (died in 1923) Bridg- ham; brother of Mrs. Evelyn (Bridgham) Gilliott. Educated at Thayer Academy, Braintree, Drug clerk.
John H. Donahue, Private: died Oct. 9, 1918, of pneumonia. Enl. Sept. 7, 1917, Co. A, 101 Sanitary Train, 26 Div. Overseas, Jan. 7, 1918.
John H. Donahue was born April 28, 1892, at Braintree, son of Peter and Margaret T. (Murrill) (deceased) Donahue of Braintree, Building mover.
BRAINTREE (East)
William Ernest Lennon, Seaman, U. S. N .: died April 17, 1918, result of ex- plosion on board S. S. "Florence H." Enl. Oct. 1, 1917, Rec. Ship, Norfolk, Va .; trans. Nov. 8, to Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Va .; Jan. 4, 1918, to U. S. S. "Michigan;" Jan. 29, to Rec. Ship at Philadelphia, Pa .; March 27, to U. S. S. "Florence H."
William Ernest Lennon was born September 18, 1900, at Belfast, Ireland, son of William Henry and Elizabeth (Havern) Lennon ; brother of Samuel M., John H., Agnes, May, and Emma Lennon, all of East Braintree. Helper, Fore River Ship Yards, Quincy. Lennon- Murray Post, Number 923, V. F. W., of Braintree, named in part in his memory. Member of gun crew on the "Florence H." Resident in Massachusetts fourteen years.
Robert A. Murray, Jr., Private: died June 13, 1918, of pneumonia. Enl. July 9, reported for duty July 25, mustered August 8, 1917, Co. K, 5 Inf., Mass. N. G. (Co. K, 101 Inf., 26 Div.). Overseas, Sept. 1, 1917. Post 923, V. F. W., Braintree, named in part of his memory.
Robert A. Murray was born January 24, 1884, in Boston, son of Robert A. and Elizabeth F. (King) Murray; brother of Isabella J., Maria L., John A., Cecelia G. and Henry L. Murray (who was wounded while a member of Co. K, 13 Infantry, 8 Division), all of Braintree. Salesman.
BRAINTREE (South)
*William Wallace Dyer, Jr., Private: died Oct. 4, 1918, at Rockefeller Research Hospital, No. 1, Hoboken, N. J., of wounds received in action, July 18, 1918, at Chateau Thierry. Enl. Sept. 10, 1917, Co. E, 101 Engrs .; trans. to Co. 3, 103 Engrs., 26 Div. Overseas, Sept. 26, 1917-Sept. 2, 1918. "Cited for gallantry in
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action on July 18, 1918, and was recommended for D. S. C." Died following amputation of leg.
William Wallace Dyer was born May 16, 1899, at South Braintree, son of William Wallace and Edna B. (Wood) Dyer, of South Brain- tree. Brakeman, N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R.
*Homer Atherton Hunt, Private: killed in action, July 15, 1918 (Champagne Plateau west of Rheims). Enl. Oct. 4, 1917, Co. K, 302 Inf., 76 Div .; Feb. 13, 1918, to 3 Co., Camp Devens Repl. Draft; April 4, to Co. 3, 165 Inf., 42 Div. Overseas, March 12, 1918.
Homer Atherton Hunt was born December 10, 1894, at Weymouth, son of Francis Atherton (of Braintree) and Mary Merrill (Lane) (de- ceased) Hunt. Marrid Susan Elmira Hagar. Child: Homer Atherton Hunt (born 1918). Wool salesman. Harvard Class of 1916; prepared at Thayer Academy.
*Joseph Calix St. Lawrence, Corporal: killed in action, July 15, 1918 (near Vaux). Enl. May 5, 1917, Co. F, 1 Corps Cadets, Mass. N. G. (Co. F, 101 Engrs., 26 Div.). Reported for duty July 25, mustered Aug. 4, 1917. Corporal June 30, 1917. Overseas, Sept. 26, 1917.
Joseph Calix St. Lawrence was born October 25, 1893, in, Boston, son of George E. and Elizabeth (Govan) St. Lawrence (both born in Quebec) ; brother of Charles E., Bertha A., Leon W., May C., and Irene E. St. Lawrence, all of South Braintree. Building estimator.
*George Raymond Wright, Corporal: killed in action Oct. 23, 1918 (near Belleu Bois). Enl. July 9, 1917, Co. K, 5 Inf., Mass. N. G .; trans. to Co. K, 101 Inf., 26 Div. Corporal Aug. 1, 1918. Overseas, Sept. 7, 1917.
George Raymond Wright was born May 5, 1895, at Fitchburg, son of George Hanford (born in Nova Scotia) and Ida May (Bouvier) (born in Canada) Wright; brother of Russell Hanford Wright; all of Brain- tree, and Lester Abraham Wright of Roslindale. Clerk.
BROOKLINE
*Paul Francis Andrews, Private: killed in action Oct. 8, 1918 (near Bois de la Taille). Ent. Feb. 25, 1918, Co. G, 308 Inf., 77 Div. Overseas, April 8, 1918.
Paul Francis Andrews was born January 14, 1893, in Boston, son of Henry and Augusta Andrews; nephew of Dr. Henry Erlich of Boston. *Arthur Kindred Atkins, 2d Lieut .: died Aug. 31, 1918, at Evacuation Hospital, No. 5, Juvigny, France (of wounds received in action). Called into active service as 2d Lieutenant, June 9, 1917; assigned to Co. L, 165 Inf., 42 Div .; trans. to Co. C, 126 Inf., 32 Div. (Wounded March 20, 1918.) Overseas, Sept. 12, 1917.
Arthur Kindred Atkins was born October 6, 1895, at Melrose High- lands, son of Astley and Alice Kindred (Hyde) Atkins of Brookline, 1926; brother of Bowman Shepard and Alice Atkins, and of Josephine (wife of Charles Nelson) Gregg and Kate (wife of Philip H.) Threshier. M. I. T. 1913-1916. Attended Plattsburg Training Camp. Prior serv- ice: Enl. June 6, 1913, Company C, 5 Regiment, Massachusetts V. M. Honorable discharge November 10, 1914.
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Carleton Griffith Baker, Corporal: died Feb. 19, 1919, of pneumonia (at St. Aignan, France). Enl. April 10, 1917, 6 Co., C. A. C., Mass. C. A .; Co. A, 101 Am. Tn. Corporal Oct. 2, 1918. Overseas, Oct. 3, 1917.
Carleton Griffith Baker was born September 18, 1893, at West Dennis, son of George A. and Winnifred S. Baker of West Dennis. Employee : banking house. Was at Officers' School at Sauvier, November, 1918; after Armistice was sent to replacement camp at St. Aignan.
*Thomas Bradford, Sergeant: died Nov. 1, 1918, from wounds received in ac- tion. Eni. Aug. 1, 1914, assigned Sept. 4, 1917, to Co. H, 23 Inf., 2 Div. Over- seas, Sept. 7, 1917.
Thomas Bradford was born July, 1884, at Brookline; brother of John Bradford of Brookline.
Barron Brainerd, Chief Boatswain's Mate, U. S. N. R. F .: died May 15, 1919, at Brookline, on sick leave from Naval Hospital, Chelsea, to which he was admitted Feb. 14, 1919. Enl. Aug. 30, 1918, Naval Tng. Camp, Bumkin Id .; Dec. 2, 1918, to Tng. Station, Hingham; promoted chief boatswain's mate, Dec. 20, 1918, and entered Officers' Material School, Cambridge.
Barron Brainerd was born March 3, 1893, in Boston, son of John Bliss (M. D.) and Laura Nellie (Barron) (deceased 1918) Brainerd; brother of Captain John B. Brainerd, (9 U. S. Infantry). Williams Col- lege, class of 1915. Teacher of Wellesley Country Day School, 1916. Member of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, at time of enlistment. Secretary Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge.
John Joseph Campbell, Corporal: died Sept. 3, 1918, of pneumonia. Enl. May 25, 1918, 152 D. B .; trans. June 15, 1918, to Rct. Co. 27; July 9, 1918, to M. T. Co., 461 M. T. C. Promoted corporal July 20, 1918. Overseas, July 31, 1918.
John Joseph Campbell was born October 26, 1894, at Brookline, son of James and Catherine (McCarthy) Campbell; brother of Stephen, Elizabeth, Catherine and Patrick Campbell, all of Brookline. Chauffeur.
Elwin F. Chapman, Private: died June 4, 1918, of aeroplane accident. Enl. Dec. 11, 1917, E. R. C., Air Service, Fort Rosecrans, Calif.
Elwin F. Chapman was born July 3, 1891, at Evanston, Wyoming, son of George F. and Eliza M. (Capen) Chapman of Canton, 1920; brother of George H. Chapman, 1st. Lieutenant, U.S.A. 15th. Aero Construction Company. University of California, prepared at Borden- town Military Academy (class of 1914). Prominent in athletics. During Third Liberty Loan drive he was chosen speaker to represent his squadron in Texas.
Ralph Edwin Chapman, Private: died Oct. 1, 1918, of pneumonia. Enl. Aug. 9, 1918, Co. C, 337 Btn., Tank Corps.
Ralph Edwin Chapman was born May 2, 1890, at Evanston, Wyo- ming, son of Mrs. Gertrude Robinson Chapman of Brookline, 1919. Married Lucy Bullis of Santa Monica, California, 1919; son: Edwin Keese Chapman, age 4 years, 1919. Farmer. Lived in Massachusetts 5 years.
Victor Hayleigh Chase, Pharmacist (temp.): died May 9, 1920, at Naval Hos-
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pital, Key West, Florida. App. from Massachusetts, Pharmacist (temp.), July 2, 1917. Duty on "Chattanooga" to July 11, 1917; temp. duty at Navy Yard, Nor- folk, Va., to Aug. 9, 1917; to Charleston, S. C., for duty under instructor until June 28, 1918, when he was assigned to Sixth Naval Dist. for duty in office of Medical Aide to Commandant; served there until March 21, 1919.
Victor Hayleigh Chase was born January 20, 1880, at Kittery Point, Maine.
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