Military Life
The soldier's life could be one of absolute boredom to sheer terror and anywhere in between. Nevertheless, many of them wrote about their experiences from the home front to the battlefield. These resources give a glimpse into the experience of the soldier during World War I.
Collections
In the trenches at Les Eparges,
Guy W. Osgood scrapbook
Blanchard Family Papers
Family of Frank N. Blanchard and Frieda Cobb Blanchard of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The collection contains letters of Gilbert Ross to his mother describing his wartime activities, 1917-1919. Gilbert Ross was an ambulance driver for the American Field Services/United States Ambulance Service volunteer unit S.S.U. 26-638 from 1917-1919 during World War I. Ross was stationed in France during the war and was killed in Europe.
Leo Beslock Papers
Resident of Detroit, Michigan. Private in the 310th Engineers during World War I. Correspondence and diary of his experiences during training at Fort Custer and service in France and occupied Germany.
Grace McKibbin Papers
Resident of Lansing, Michigan. Christmas card and letter from grandson H. A. Clark, written from France while serving in the military during World War I.
Waldemar Alfred Paul John Letters
Letters to Morris Levinkind describing his experiences in France during World War I.
Lawrence James Bauer Correspondence
American aviator during World War I. Letters describing his pilot training and experiences in France during the War.
Cline Switzer Beurmann Diary
Grand Rapids, Michigan dentist. Description of service with the American Expeditionary Force in France following World War I.
Charles Elwyn Brake Papers
Resident of Bradley, Michigan, who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I. Letters to his parents from army camps in the United States, describing his activities including influenza epidemic.
Haughey Family Correspondence
Wilfrid H. Haughey family of Battle Creek, Michigan. Letters of Haughey to his wife and children written while he was serving as an army surgeon in France during World War I; letters of members of the family attending University of Michigan; extensive correspondence of the Haughey children written from throughout the United States and the world during World War II.
Perry W. Greene Papers
Grand Rapids, Michigan, pharmacist, city commissioner (1934-1944), and Republican State Senator (1944-1962). Scrapbook of photographs and memorabilia relating to his service during World War I; notebook of pharmaceutical formulas; newspaper clippings and other materials relating to his legislative career; and photographs.
African American soldiers, Hut in Camp 4
(Camp Lusitania sunk in the mud), St. Nazair;
Theodore W. Koch papers, Box 12,
World War 1914-1918, ALA Activities (2)
Andrew A. Martin Collection
Sergeant in 315th Ambulance Company, 79th Infantry Division, U.S. Army, during World War I. Histories of the company and poem.
Safford and Sunderland Family Papers
Southeastern Michigan family, many of whom graduated or attended the University of Michigan. The collection begins with a series of family photographs followed by series of correspondence and other papers for Gertrude Sunderland Safford, Homer Erwin Safford, Homer's sister, Ada Murray Safford, and Mildred Hortense Safford and Helen Safford Toohy, daughters of Gertrude and Homer Safford. The collection begins with a series of family photographs followed by series of correspondence and other papers for Gertrude Sunderland Safford, Homer Erwin Safford, Homer's sister, Ada Murray Safford, and Mildred Hortense Safford and Helen Safford Toohy, daughters of Gertrude and Homer Safford. In addition to extensive family correspondence and travel diaries, the Gertrude Sunderland Safford series contains records of Sunderland Safford’s involvement with women’s clubs, the League of Women Voters, and the Merrill-Parker School. The Homer Erwin Safford series includes diaries, correspondence, and clippings documenting his medical career as a general practitioner in the 1900s, his work on efforts to build a new hospital in Detroit before World War I, his service in the Army Medical Corps during the War, and his later work as a psychiatric consultant for the Highland Park school system, the Children’s Aid Society and various juvenile court systems; also the letters of Winfield S. Safford while serving with the 24th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. The Ada Murray Safford series revolves around her significant interest in family history. The Mildred Hortense Safford series is strong on family correspondence, especially for 1918-1925; it also documents her career at the Detroit Children’s Museum and her involvement with the Detroit Women’s City Club. The Helen Safford Toohy series contains extensive family correspondence, focusing on her years during and immediately following college; it also includes personal diaries.
Charles F. Meyer Notebooks
First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps in World War I. Notes on instruction in military science and tactics at Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France.
Charles S. Smith Papers
Teacher and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. Correspondence, sermons, speeches, photographs, articles, manuscript history of the A.M.E. Church, and printed material; include material relating to church activities, to his visits to Africa, the settlement of Liberia by American blacks, the education of blacks and related topics; and scattered papers of his wife Christine Shoecraft Smith, and their son, Charles S. Smith, Jr., concerning his World War I activities.
G. Walter Getz Letters
Soldier in Co. F, 2nd Engineers, American Expeditionary Force, during World War I. Letters to friends written from training camp in Texas, in France, a military hospital, and back home in Ohio.
Frank G. Millard Papers
Republican attorney general of Michigan, 1951-1954, general counsel of the Department of the Army. World War I letters, papers detailing work as chairman of the committee on emerging problems of the Michigan Constitutional Convention; miscellaneous genealogical material, and diaries and memoranda books; scrapbooks concerning political career, especially his service as state attorney general; and photographs.
Company C, 301 Water Tank Train,
H. E. Edwards, Capt. M. J. C. U. S. A., Arthur
Armstrong Paler papers, Box 1, World War I
Photographs
Arthur Armstrong Palmer Papers
Captain in U.S. Army. Scrapbook and miscellaneous papers, including citations and clippings concerning his service as an officer in World War I, in the reserve corps after the war, and in World War II; also photographs.
Thomas Francis McAllister Papers
Grand Rapids Michigan resident, 1918 graduate of the University of Michigan, who served with the U. S. Ambulance Service and later the French Foreign Legion during World War I. Letters describing his experiences in France during World War I, including time spent in Paris, at the front, and in training.
Harold A. Furlong Papers
Pontiac, Michigan, physician, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient in 1919, medical director of the Selective Service of Michigan, and director of the Michigan Council of Defense, 1940-1942. Scrapbooks containing letters and newspaper clippings relating to his activities in World War I; scrapbooks detailing his service on the home front during World War II; and film made for Armed Forces Day, 1959.
Remington Ellis Letters
Soldier stationed in France during World War I. Letters describing war-time activities.
Leslie A. Quale Diary
Resident of Onekama, Mich., army ambulance driver during World War I. Brief entries describing his military service.
Mack Family (Evanston, Ill.) Papers
Edward E. Mack was a 1917 graduate of the University of Michigan. During World War I, he served as a 1st lieutenant with the 52nd Artillery. His wife Eleanor Mack lived in Evanston, Illinois during the war. Letters exchanged while Edward was in the service. The letters describe daily events and reflect their love and affection for each other. The collection also includes letters from Edward to his parents and other family members about his war-time experiences.
Delano Family Papers
Detroit, Michigan, family. Diary, 1830, of Mortimer F. Delano, describing trip to France and Italy; memoirs of Frederick M. Delano, including account of his connection with the National Bell Telephone Company (from 1876); clipping of published letter of F. M. Delano, Jr., describing confrontation with U-boat during World War I; and miscellaneous correspondence, biographical information, and clippings.
Rudolph H. Gjelsness Papers
Professor of library science at the University of Michigan. Correspondence and other papers relating to his work with the American Library Association's Committee on Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 1935-1941; letters from his former students upon the occasion of his retirement in 1964; personal correspondence, including letters to his parents from relatives in Norway, 1880-1935 and letters written while in service during World War I; and photographs.
Ralph M. Hodnett Papers, 1913-1937
Officer in the U.S. Army Engineers during World War I. Reminiscence (written about 1919?) of his experiences in France during World War I; diary (1913-1918) of his father (name unknown) an army clerk in the Philippines and later along the Mexican border; genealogical notebook of the Oram family; and photographs.
Edwin S. Noble Papers
Elk Rapids, Michigan businessman. Correspondence, 1888-1890, concerning his position on tariff question, letter, 1890, relating to local time issue in Elk Rapids, Michigan; letter, 1918, from H. G. Cooper describing his experiences in World War I, and letter, undated from Stuart Marker relating to his activities during World War II; also newspaper obituary and printed material.
Harry H. Bandholtz Papers
Army officer from Constantine, Michigan, who served with the United States forces during the occupation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War, later Brigadier General and chief of the Philippine Constabulary, 1907-1913. Bandholtz also served during World War I and as a member of the Inter-allied Military Mission to Hungary, 1919-1920. Summary Correspondence, clippings, and scrapbooks largely concerning his military career and his years as chief of the Philippine Constabulary. The collection includes bound volumes of memoranda, reports, and other documents of the Philippine Constabulary bearing in part the title "Compilation of papers on Japanese propagandaism" and relating to Philippines-Japan relations. The collection also contains photographs and photograph albums and a drawing executed and signed by Geronimo. Correspondents include: Henry T. Allen, Emilio Aguinaldo, James F. Bell, Poultney Bigelow, Tasker H. Bliss, Hermon C. Bumpus, Julius C. Burrows, Frank W. Carpenter, Calvin Coolidge, William C. Forbes, Frederick Funston, Newton W. Gilbert, James G. Harbord, Mark L. Hersey, Henry C. Ide, Julius Kahn, Frank McIntyre, George A. Malcolm, Albert L. Mills, Sergio Osmeña, John J. Pershing, Frank L. Polk, Manuel L. Quezon, Theodore Roosevelt, James F. Smith, Herbert B. Swope, William Howard Taft, Charles E. Townsend, George W. Wickersham, Leonard Wood, and Luke E. Wright.
William Edward Votruba Papers
Soldier in Section 591, U.S. Army Ambulance Service, during World War I. Diary, 1917-1918, containing detailed description of wartime service of University of Michigan students in France; also collected materials, 1907-1924, including autobiography of Prokop Kyselka of Traverse City, Michigan, and histories of Czech Americans in the Traverse City area.
George W. Millen Papers
Ann Arbor, Michigan, businessman, Republican state senator from Ann Arbor, 1918-1920, later member of the State Department of Conservation. Personal correspondence and papers concerning in part election campaign in 1918; also letters from nephew serving in the army during World War I.
Ray Anderson Papers
Member of Co. E, 416th Railroad Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps during World War I; later student at the University of Michigan. Brief reminiscence of wartime activities, especially the building of telephone and telegraph lines in France; brief diary (1918-1919); memorabilia, and photographs.
On a British Red Cross barge used for
transporting the wounded along a canal in
France: wounded in one of the wards;
Theodore W. Koch papers, Box 12,
World War 1914-1918, Red Cross Activities
Wyman Family Papers
Family of William P. and Arminia McKee Wyman of Charlotte, Michigan. Letters, 1918, of William McKee Wyman, describing his experiences in France during World War I; letters, 1918-1919 and 1928-1931, of Eleanor McKee Wyman, describing her experiences as a nurse in France and China and on leave in the Philippines; and reminiscences and clippings of Arminia McKee Wyman; also photographs.
Roy L. Noggle Correspondence
Army officer. Correspondence to his parents, written while he was in service during Spanish-American War and World War I.
Ernest B. Drake Papers
Student at the University of Michigan, engineering class of 1914, later first lieutenant in the field artillery during World War I. Diary, 1913, describing activities as U-M undergraduate; diaries and letters, 1917-1918, relating to wartime service in America and in France.
Lewis P. Waldo Letter
French interpreter in the U.S. Army during World War I. Letter describing in part battles of Argonne Woods and Verdun, and the aftermath of these engagements; and newspaper obituary of Waldo.
Melvin W. Simonton Papers
Veteran of World War I from Hartland, Michigan. Account of wartime experiences, letters from the front lines, and printed material from war period.
Samuel Bates Grubbs Papers
Alumnus of University of Michigan. Journal, June-August, 1918, describing his voyage overseas and his military service in France as a member of the U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps, and reminiscences of a visit to his grandfather in Mexico during 1884.
Fenno E. Densmore Papers
Hillsdale County, Michigan, minister and teacher in Amish school. Diary-notebook and scattered letters concerning his military service during World War I; letter, 1924, commenting on Catholic opposition to school prayer, and mentioning Ku Klux Klan cross burning; 5-year diaries, 1938-1947 and 1953-1957; and photographs.
Loud Family Papers
Au Sable, Michigan, family. Letterbook, 1901-1904, of lumberman Henry N. Loud, including letters discussing conservation, current problems, State Library matters, and appointments to state posts; also biography of Henry N. Loud, entitled "No Winter Came" written by Marian V. Loud; papers, 1910-1913, of George A. Loud, Au Sable, Michigan, businessman and Republican congressman, 1903-1913 and 1915-1917, including letters from John Burroughs, George Dewey, George W. Goethals, Robert E. Peary, Ernest Thompson Seton, and William H. Taft; minutes and by-laws of the H. M. Loud and Sons Lumbering Co.; copies of letters written by Harold E. Loud during World War I; and photographs.
Howard W. Weting Diary
Resident of Romeo, Michigan, who served in the 315th U.S. Army Ambulance Company during World War I. Describes his daily activities from the time he left training camp for France, through experiences at the front and after the end of the war, to his return to the U.S.
Abraham L. Johnson Collection
Resident of New Era, Mich. Collection of documents relating to the sinking of SS Tuscania (a troopship) in 1918, of which his grandfather Arthur J. Siplon was a survivor; includes a 1955 reminiscence by Siplon and information about the ship and its wreck copied from the World Wide Web. Siplon was a resident of Muskegon, Mich.
Andrew Babicki Collection
Resident of Dearborn, Mich., collector of documents relating to Michigan's role in World War I. The collection includes diary (1918-1919) of Henry Ahrens, 330th Field Artillery; papers of Thomas J. McCarthy, 339th Infantry, chiefly relating to disability and insurance; papers of Jesse H. Stage, 160th Depot Brigade, Camp Custer, including letters received from relatives; scrapbook (1916-1936) of Ernest Kaser, 126th and 128th Infantry; pamphlets from the YMCA, Red Cross and other publishers; ration cards, artifacts, and photographs.
Samuel Lambarth Letters
Saline, Michigan, resident. Letters from friends in the army describing their experiences at training camps.
William George Haan Diary
Major General of the 32nd Division during the First World War. Account of his wartime activities.
Group of men of the ambulance service,
La Cheppe, May 7, 1918, Guy W. Osgood
scrapbook
G. W. Osgood Papers
Volunteer for the American Field Service, ambulance service to the French Army during World War I, later served with U.S. Army Ambulance Service. Service papers, clippings, typescript of diary, drawings of wartime sites, scattered letters and miscellanea; also photographs.
Joseph Ralston Hayden Papers
Professor of political science at University of Michigan; Vice Governor of the Philippines, 1933-1935, and aide to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. Summary Correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, reports and miscellaneous papers concerning his teaching career and his life-long interest in the Philippines; also family correspondence, 1854-1903, and papers relating to his service in University of Michigan Naval Militia in World War I; also photographs. Correspondents include: Randolph G. Adams, Santiago Artiaga, Newton D. Baker, Frank W. Carpenter, William L. Clements, Creed R. Cox, Fred L. Crawford, Gerrit J. Diekema, William C. Forbes, James R. Fugate, Eugene A. Gilmore, Fred W. Green, Edgar A. Guest, William C. Harllee, Francis B. Harrison, Evett D. Hester, Norman Hill, Stanley K. Hornbeck, Cordell Hull, James W. Jones, Frank B. Kellogg, Edward M. Kuder, Jose Laurel, Paul V. McNutt, George A. Malcolm, Earl C. Michener, Gouverneur F. Mosher, Frank Murphy, Camilo Osias, Sergio Osmena, Francis LeJau Parker, Frank Parker, James K. Pollock, Manuel L. Quezon, Jackson H. Ralston, Jesse S. Reeves, Carlos P. Romulo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred G. Roth, Manuel Roxas, Francis B. Sayre, Claude A. Swanson, William H. Taft, Mathew Tomlinson, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Louis J. Van Schaick, Leonard Wood, and Nanon Fay (Leas) Worcester.
Lucy M. Cooke Papers
Resident of Lapeer, Michigan. Letter of son Robert E. Cooke, May 4, 1945, describing the bombing of a hospital in Antwerp where he was a patient; reminiscences concerning her older son's experiences in World War I; and collected historical notes about Jesse James and George Custer.
William Briggs Mershon Papers
Saginaw, Michigan, businessman. Correspondence and other papers relating to his congressional campaign, 1931: letters from Mershon and his brother Edward L. Mershon, written in France, during World War I; scrapbook, ca. 1909-1944, concerning his interest in big game hunting; diary and other materials concerning African safari in 1923.
James D. Bruce Papers
Physician and army officer during World War I, later faculty member in the University of Michigan Medical School and University administrator. Correspondence largely with his wife and other materials concerning his activities in the Canadian and U.S. Armed Forces during the war; and photographs.
Henry Otto Fields Letters
Private in the U. S. Army during World War I. Letters to his mother, Anna Fields of Coleman, Michigan, describing military training and subsequent service in France during the war.
Harold H. Beltz Diary
Lansing, Michigan, resident and soldier in the 119th U.S. Field Artillery during World War I. Comments on passage across the Atlantic and wartime activities in France.
Victor F. Clarke Papers
Jackson, Michigan, resident. Letters to family written from U.S. Naval training stations during World War I.
Renville Wheat Papers
Resident of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Instructional materials used at Field Artillery School of Instruction, Saumur, France during World War I; and copies of diaries detailing trips to Italy, Scotland and England, and the Mediterranean Islands; and photographs.
Emmons Family Papers
Kent County, Michigan, family. Diary, 1863, of Charles E. Emmons II of Gaines, Genesee County, Michigan, wagoner with Co. H, 6th Michigan Cavalry during the Civil War; letters, 1857-1861, of Emmons' half-brother, Stephen S. Solomon, including comments, following his move to southern Illinois and southern Louisiana, on his allegiance to the South; letter, 1918, of Charles E. Emmons IV describing his service in France during World War I; and family miscellanea; also visual materials.
Frederick Clever Bald Papers
Professor of history and director of the Michigan Historical Collections at the University of Michigan. Correspondence, speeches, lecture and research notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished research writings, including "The University of Michigan in World War II"; questionnaires sent out to Michigan colleges and universities relating to their activities during the Second World War; letters, 1944-1946, from Chester A. Antiau discussing his work with the U. S. Army Information and Education Service during World War II including comments on conditions in Italy and Germany; diaries of trips in Michigan; correspondence, 1917-1919, covering his World War I service in the 111th Ambulance Company; and correspondence and other material concerning his activities with the Michigan Historical Collections, the Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, and the Algonquin Club of Detroit.
Shaw Family (Shiawassee County, Mich.) Papers
Papers of the Shaw family of Shiawassee County, Michigan. Papers, 1877-1926, of William Shaw, physician in Morrice, Michigan, including diaries, notebooks, and records of patient appointments and accounts; patient books, 1884-1891, of brother, Alexander Shaw, physician in Watertown, Dakota (later South Dakota); papers, 1907-1977, of Milton Shaw, son of William Shaw, Lansing physician including correspondence, diaries, professional files, and materials relating to medical career in the military, especially letters written during World War I; and photographs.
Finding Aid available online.
Crawford Family Papers, 1898 and 1917-1919
Pontiac, Michigan family. Biographical information; letters exchanged between Harry Crawford and his family and friends relating to his experiences in the Spanish-American War and World War I; memorabilia; and photographs.
Finding Aid available online.
Harry J. Puffer Reminiscences
Battle Creek, Michigan resident and member of Co. F, 310th Engineers during World War I. Description of campaigns and daily activities, with memories of platoon sergeant, Harry Ongman, 1917-1971.
William K. Pommerening Papers
Member of Co. E, 126th Infantry (Michigan National Guard) in World War I; 1916 graduate of the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Diary describing his experiences in World War I, especially the Aisne-Marne offensive of July and Aug. 1918; also miscellanea and photographs.
Clippert Family Papers
Detroit, Michigan family; owners of brick manufacturing firm; one member of the family, Harrison F. (Harry) Clippert, served with the 65th Regiment, U.S. Coast Artillery Corps, during World War I. Correspondence, legal and financial documents, and background information relating to the family brick business; correspondence, notebooks, training material, and miscellaneous detailing Harry Clipperts activities with the Coast Artillery Corps during World War I; and photographs and other materials pertaining to George F. Clippert's student activities at the University of Michigan, especially with Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, other family members represented in the papers are Conrad J. Clippert and George H. Clippert.
Pipers of the Black Watch Near Epernay,
Guy W. Osgood
scrapbook
McMahon Family Papers
Dr. Henry O. McMahon, a Detroit area surgeon, met Miss Juliet Richards of Racine, Wisconsin, at the turn of the twentieth century. After a long courtship, they married in 1913. In 1914, Juliet gave birth to their first child, Mary Louise. With the onset of World War I, Henry's Medical Officer Reserve unit became active. Stationed far from home, he and Juliet corresponded once again. The McMahon family papers consist of a single series of correspondence, subdivided into letters to and from Juliet Richards and Henry McMahon. The majority of the correspondence series are letters to Juliet Richards from Henry McMahon, during their friendship, courtship, engagement, and after their marriage, while Henry served in World War I. The McMahon family papers consist of a single series of correspondence, subdivided into letters to and from Juliet Richards and Henry McMahon. The majority of the correspondence series are letters to Juliet Richards from Henry McMahon, during their friendship, courtship, engagement, and after their marriage, while Henry served in World War I.
Kenneth A. Easlick Papers
Professor of dentistry at University of Michigan. Materials relating to his service in World War I with the U.S. Army Ambulance Service Section 591, including copies of Le Jubicourt Matin, a journal of the reminiscences of the men of Unit #591, bulletins, and miscellaneous correspondence and directories; and speeches, correspondence, and other materials relating to his career in children's dentistry; photograph album; and presentation volume of remembrances received upon his retirement in 1961, volume of remembrances received from his students in 1964, letters of condolence, and miscellaneous awards.
Shearer Family Papers
Bay City, Michigan family. War diary, 1918, of Lieutenant James Shearer, II; correspondence and other papers concerning Alfred Shearer's activities in World War II; and also miscellaneous genealogical materials.
R. E. Christman Letter
Resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Letter to John Egidis, soldier in Co. E., 126th Infantry during World War I, discussing his understanding of conditions on the the front.
Newton Burnett Beach Papers
Soldier in the 319th Engineers during World War I. Letters from Beach to his parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan, written from his training camp in California and from the battlefront in France.
Richard Root Smith Papers
Physician, resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who served with U. S. Army Hospital Group Q in France during World War I and was appointed a regent of the University of Michigan in 1931. Reprints, typescripts, and newspaper clippings relating to his World War I experiences and appointment as regent; and photographs.
Frederick A. Coller Papers
Professor of surgery in the Medical School of the University of Michigan. Miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photograph albums; medical reports compiled while serving in the Medical Corps in World War I; school notebooks, diaries of travels overseas; and research notes and articles.
Arthur Francis Lamey Papers
Law student at the University of Michigan, class of 1914. Notes from law school classes; scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, and programs detailing in part his activities as a member of the track team; notebook from World War I service; and miscellaneous clippings and certificates.
Charles N. Ponton Diary
Member of Unit No. 591, U.S. Army Medical Corps in France during World War I. Composed after the war and based upon memos, articles, and letters covering wartime service.
John Cyril Abbott Papers
1916 graduate of the University of Michigan College of Engineering; engineer and army officer in World War I. Letter to his mother, August 1918, containing his impressions of England and France written shortly after his arrival in Europe; and photograph album, ca. 1910-1915, relating to student life at the University of Michigan.
Jay Paul Hopkins Papers
Officer with an American anti-aircraft unit in France during World War I. Biographical sketch written in 1924? and letter, 1927, detailing war-time experiences.
Distributing books at a hospital ;
Theodore W. Koch papers, Box 12,
World War 1914-1918, ALA Activities (2)
Hull Family Papers
The Hull family has been prominent in Michigan's Washtenaw, Livingston, and Wayne Counties since the first representatives of the family arrived in the state in 1833. Family members include George and Isabelle Hull, farmers in Saline, Michigan, their son Lawrence, a school administrator at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and, later, at Michigan Military Academy. Lawrence has a daughter Isabelle MacFarlane Hull and a son, Dr. Leroy Wetmore Hull, a graduate of the University of Michigan medical School (1911). Dr. Leroy Hull married Frances Ball, and they had two children, George M. and Jean Hull Ruhman. George served in World War II, and Jean became an elementary school teacher, teaching in abroad at American Dependent Schools in the late 1950s. Letterbook (1869-1872) of George Hull, Livingston County, Michigan, farmer and businessman, relating to his grocery business, and letters (1888-1899) to his son Lawrence then attending Lawrenceville School in New Jersey relating to the family's fruit farm at Pleasant Lake; papers of Lawrence's wife, Eliza Darling Hull, student at the University of Michigan; papers of Lawrence and Eliza's son Leroy relating to World War I service; papers of Lawrence and Eliza's daughter Isabelle MacFarlane Hull; diaries of Leroy's wife, Frances Ball Hull, 1915-1919 and 1947-1957; papers of Leroy and France's son George M. Hull; papers of Leroy and France's daughter Jean Hull Ruhman; photographs; and scrapbooks.
Walter Harold Wistrand Diary
Flint, Michigan, resident and soldier in Section 591, U.S. Army Ambulance Service, serving with the French Army during World War I. Description of war-time life in France.
Anton C. Cron Papers
Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I. Official orders and letters to his wife concerning his service in three divisions of the A.E.F. and in the Army of Occupation.
Patterson Family Papers
New York State and Ann Arbor, Michigan family; George Washington Patterson, Sr. was lieutenant governor of New York (1848-1850) and congressman (1877-1879); George Washington Patterson, Jr. was a Westfield, New York businessman; George W. Patterson, III was University of Michigan professor and college dean; George W. Patterson, IV was a graduate of Yale University and a soldier in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. Correspondence and other papers of members of the Patterson family relating to family affairs, business dealings, New York State and national politics (including Whig Party affairs) in the papers of George W. Patterson, Sr.; letters from European travels in the papers of George W. Patterson,Jr.; student notebooks, letters from abroad, and University of Michigan career materials in the papers of George W. Patterson, III; and albums containing photographs and memorabilia relating to student life at Yale and service during World War I in the papers of George W. Patterson, IV; and other family papers, including genealogical materials.
Leo W. Cade Papers
Resident of Benton Harbor, Michigan, who served in the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. Correspondence describing military life.
Samuel Dewitt Pepper Papers
Port Huron, Michigan attorney; officer in the Michigan National Guard beginning in 1905, later Judge Advocate with the U.S. Army during World War I. After the war, Pepper was chief law officer of the MNG where he was advisor during the Flint Sit-Down strike of 1937. Summary Biographical material; correspondence with family and friends concerning in part current events and politics in pre-World War I Canada; correspondence with wife Katherine while serving in France 1918-1919; papers relating to his official responsibilities with the Michigan National Guard, as Judge Advocate, and as member of veterans organizations; include files relating to the Copper Miners’ Strike of 1913 and to the Flint Sit-Down strike; also diaries, 1916-1919, of his experiences serving on the Mexican border and in France during the First World War; papers relating to Republican party activities in 1920 and 1924; and photographs.
G. B. Harrison Papers
Scholar and professor of English at University of Michigan. Diaries, manuscripts of dramas and other writings, Shakespearean notes and lecture materials and personal and professional correspondence, including material relating to his service with the British Infantry in India and Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) during World War I.
Arthur Armstrong Palmer Photograph Series
Captain in U. S. Army. Album and loose photos depicting military camp life during World War I; family picnic photos (1890s); photos of A. E. Palmer Furniture Manufacturing Company in Adrian and Reading, Michigan; and miscellaneous photographs.
Ford A. Hinchman Papers
Alumnus of University of Michigan and resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Letters written while in military service during World War I; and scrapbook, 1911-1952, containing clippings, photographs and memorabilia concerning University of Michigan student life, state and national politics, and family affairs.
Guy M. Hubbard Diary
Soldier in the 119th U.S. Field Artillery during World War I. Brief comments on post-Armistice activities and passage home.
Charles Kenneth Wesley Papers
Member of the French Army during the First World War. Correspondence from an army comrade, memoir of Thanksgiving in Paris, France in 1917, and miscellaneous writings.
Mitchell Family Papers
Port Huron, Michigan, family. Newspaper obituaries of family members, Judge William T. Mitchell, William H. Mitchell, and Frances Fish Ferguson; World War I letter, 1918, of Frank Crittenden containing description of England and France; also letter and notes relating to the history of the Fish family; and photographs.
Arthur W. Ehrlicher Papers
1918 graduate of the University of Michigan who served in 149 Infantry Regiment in France during World War I. Letters to his family describing his activities as a student, as military trainee, and in France; also a photograph.
Published Resources
The Pontanezen Duckboard (s.n: Brest, France, 1919)
Fort Custer (Mich.), YMCA of the USA, Trench and Camp (Battle Creek Enquirer-News: Battle Creek, Mich, 2010-05-18 18:41:06)
Harry Clippert, World War I Correspondence of Harry Clippert (1917 to 1919) (C. F. Clippert: Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 2001)
Mike Irwin, Victoria's Cross: The Story of Sgt. Samuel George Pearse, V.C. M.M.: From ANZAC to Archangel (M. Irwin: Northland Centre, Victoria, 2003)
William K Pommerening, The Diary of a Doughboy [Jan. 1, 1918--May 23, 1919] (The United Coucil of Veterans Organizations of Washtenaw County, State of Michigan: Ann Arbor, Mich, 1931)
United States, The Stars and Stripes (A.E.F. publishing association: Minneapolis, 1920)
William L Stidger, Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front (C. Scribner's sons: New York, 1918)
Carl Enoch William Leonard Dahlström, Sent to Hell from Ann Arbor: A College Student's World War One (Quaker Abbey Press, LLC: Portland OR, 2009)
United Committee on War Temperance Activities in the Army and Navy, The Fighter: A Manual for the Soldier and Sailor (United Committee on War Temperance: New York City, 1917)
John Wilson Taylor, Some of Those Days: An Autobiography (J. W. Taylor: Detroit, Mich, 1966)
Marion A Brown, A Finnish Immigrant Son in the Great War 1918-1919 (Northern Michigan University Press: Marquette, Mich., 2004)
Patrick V Garland, A Forgotten Soldier: The Life and Times of Major General Harry Hill Bandholtz (Infinity Pub: West Conshohocken, Penn, 2009)
Edward W Barry, Doings of Battery B; Humorous Happenings & Striking Situations in the Experiences of Its Members. 328th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces (The Dean-Hicks co: Grand Rapids, Mich, 1919)
Karl Detzer, Bobbs-Merrill Company, and Bobbs-Merrill Company, True Tales of the D.C.I (The Bobbs-Merrill Company: Indianapolis, 1925)
Randolph Rogers, Pour Le Droit (G. Wahr: Ann Arbor, Mich, 1919)
Charles Lancelot Cooke, Three Strikes and Not Out (Carleton Press: New York, 1973)
The Trouble Buster (U.S. Army General Hospital no. 2: Fort McHenry, Md, 2010-05-18 18:41:27)
John Newton McCormick, A Small Part (Morehouse Publishing Co: Milwaukee, Wis, 1934)
Gordon K Miller, A Biographical Sketch of Major Edward E. Hartwick (: Detroit, Mich, 1921)