62 Men Leave

Additional Information Submitted by Audree Ayres, Eau Claire

62 Eau Claire City, County Men Leave for Army Center     Saturday, June 13, 1942
Sixty-two Eau Claire County men today left for the United States Army Induction Center at Milwaukee, where those who pass their final physical examinations will be inducted into service.

Thirty eight of the men were from the city of Eau Claire, called by Selective Service Board No. 1, while 24 were from the county, outside the city, called by Board No. 2.

The top picture shows the city group, while the bottom one is the county group.


City Group

Men composing the city delegation are Donald Edmund Wright, 208 North Barstow Street; Alex MacLaughlin, (Volunteer), 630 Ferry; Glenn Leif Erickson, 91[?] North 17th; Marshall Lavern Negle, (Association Leader), 111 Emery; Charles Clatton Brown, 415 Chestnut.

Joseph Frederick Miller, 613 Division; Marvin Hartwick Hagen, 1810 Woodland Court; Gerard Gerald Borges, 622 Putnam; Warren Ralph Beck, Oxford Court; John Olav Haanstad, Jr., (Assistant Leader), 223 Chestnut.

Gerald William Loomis Wright, 208 1/2 North Barstow; Carl Stovner 417 West Grand Avenue; Ole Jacob Jacobson, 420 Galloway; Ed La Verne Smith, 1239 Bellevue; Marshall Edwin Bien, 109 Niagara;

Stanley James Ayres, 540 Cochrane; Roy Van Pelt, 1602 Main; Victor Linley (Leader), 405 Park Avenue; Vernon William Kloster, 837 1/2 Niagara; Johnathan Frederick Tealey, 1009 South Farwell;

Raymond Donald Hughes, 938 Water; Oscar Julius Brenden, 320 Water; Peter Lloyd Votujec, 445 Ferry; Joseph Henry Brazeau, 704 Grand Avenue East; Leonard Wilson, 1106 First Avenue

William Berger, 936 Second Avenue; Wallace Edward Lange, 610 South Dewey Street; Ernest Freeman Trimbell, 415 1/2 Wisconsin Street; Earl William Heggen, 1122 Bellevue Avenue; Merle Howard Stewart, 1024 Chauncey Street.

Gordon Arthur Mills, (Assistant Leader), 1509 Hoover Avenue; Medwin David White, 1214 South Dewey; Richard James Ausman, 808 Cameron; Harley Neslon Garlie, (Volunteer), 550 Center; Charles Christy Heiman, 113 Ann; Leon Richard Hodgson, 1621 Menomonie; Earlan Wilfred Bowen (Volunteer) 226 1/2 Maple; Willard John Bassett, 409 1/2 North Dewey; William Sedell Walsh, Credit to Board No. 1, Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Two Hudson men, Harold Hayes and Fred Harwell were also in the group. Others who left elsewhere were William Thore Thompson, to be inducted through Board No. 1, Ashtabula, Ohio; Jack Moen Rathbun, to be inducted through Board No.4, Milwaukee; John Otto Carl Hinterberg, to be inducted through Board No. 10, Milwaukee; Archibald Byron Green, to be inducted through Seattle, WA; George Schoenknecht, to be inducted through Board No. 1, Green Bay; Wallace Joseph Belland, to be inducted through Board at Bruce, WI.


County Group

The group from the county follows: LeRoy Johnson, Route 5, Eau Claire; Clarence Broughton, Route 4, Mondovi; Nathan Nicholson, Route 4, Mondovi; Orville Olson, Fairchild; Milton Kopp, Fairchild; Robert McDonald, Altoona; Oscar Bonesville, Route 2, Eau Claire; Paul Garnett, Route 5, Eau Claire; Victor Paulley, 2413 Crescent Avenue, Eau Claire; Fred Kramer, Route 1, Eau Claire; Ervin Dewitz, Route 1, Eau Claire; Curtis Hanson, 809 Graham Avenue, Eau Claire.

Paul Boley, (Leader), Altoona; Orville Wright, 726 Menomonie Street, Eau Claire; Harold Jaenke, Route 4, Cadott; Keeth Nadler, Altoona; Henry Bartig, (Assistant Leader), Route 2, Augusta.

Virgil D'Lamatter, Route 2, Boyd; Gormon Draheim, Route 1, Fairchild; Lloyd Haines, Route 1, Strum; Roy Keller, 511 Wisconsin Street, Eau Claire; Clarence Swendbye, Route 1, Strum; John Johnson, 14th Street, Eau Claire. Elven Nelson was also sent to the induction station but is not in the picture. Frederick Boettcher was transferred to Local Board No. 4, Milwaukee, WI.