A History of Switzerland County's Part in the World War

By Earl S. Brown, 1919.
Transcription by Ruth Hoggatt, 2003.


Chapter I Causes Which Led United States into the War
Chapter II The Beginning and the End
Chapter III Our Heroic Dead
Chapter IV The County's Wounded
Chapter V Gems of Patriotism
Chapter VI The Conscription Board
Chapter VII The Red Cross Chapter and its Fourteen Auxiliaries
Chapter VIII The War Chest Organization
Chapter IX The Food Administration
Chapter X The County Council of Defense
Chapter XI The Fuel Administration
Chapter XII The Five Liberty Loan Drives
Chapter XIII Women's Work in the Liberty Loans
Chapter XIV War Savings Stamps
Chapter XV The Women's War Census
Chapter XVI The Sammy Pen Club
Chapter XVII The Boys' Working Reserve
Chapter XVIII Soldier Poetry
Chapter XIX Switzerland County's Roll of Honor
Chapter XX Amick Brothers Fight Side by Side
Chapter XXI John F. Butters on Eleven Battle Fronts
Chapter XXII Uly Butters Fights with British
Chapter XXIII Howard P. Burton Returns from the Dead
Chapter XXIV Leslie Byram Saved by German Prisoners
Chapter XXV Ermon Brown Captures German Captain and Ten Privates
Chapter XXVI William Bowen Rams Bayonet Through Boche
Chapter XXVII Lawrence E. Chandler in Five Engagements
Chapter XXVIII D. W. Dodd on Torpedoed Ship
Chapter XXIX Allen Day on Trail of the Boche
Chapter XXX James Grammer Oakley Saved by Red Cross Workers
Chapter XXXI J. Kirby Danglade Serves with French Army
Chapter XXXII Halstead Ferguson Goes Through Battle Bareheaded
Chapter XXXIII Walter Green Wounded Twice
Chapter XXXIV Vere Graham Sleeps with Dead Frenchman
Chapter XXXV Hubert Hamilton with British in Belgium
Chapter XXXVI Sam Huff Serves with Medical Corps
Chapter XXXVII Joe Hollcraft Sees Brutality of Huns
Chapter XXXVIII Ernest Lackland in Hospital Bombed by Huns
Chapter XXXIX Frank Pelsor in Great British Offensive
Chapter XL George Platt Shot Through Body While in the Argonne
Chapter XLI Clifford Thiebaud Fights with Rainbow Division
Chapter XLII Marion Williamson Fights Sixty Hours Without Water



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