Wittenberg University - Witt Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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1319 1313 I] ? fflJtttgtthgrggr Russell Eugene Lorton r USSELL EUGENE LORTON was born on September 7, v1895, and educated in the elementary schools of German Township. Upon graduation from High School in 1914, he taught school in Clark County for two years, and in the fall of 1917 entered Wittenberg College. In December of 1917 he dropped his studies in order that he might enter the service of his country. He enlisted in the navy on December 8, 1917 ,and on Decem- ber 14th, left for the Great Lakes Naval Training Station to take up his duties as an apprentice seaman. Here he worked faith- fully in order that he might aid in the crushing of the arch enemy of civilization. On the evening of February 7th while on duty he was stricken with angina pectoris and died within a few minutes. He was buried at Lawrenceville on Feb. 12, 1918, with military honors. He took an active part in church and Sunday school work and was loved and highly respected by all who knew him. While connected with military service he belonged to Co. K, 4th Regiment, Camp Perry, Great Lakes, 111. seventeen

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101B ® kj z Hitt nb rg r 1010 Captain Harry A. Seabohm r i ARKY A. SEEBOHM was born at Vandalia, Ohio, March 1, A1893. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Seebohm. The early part of his life he spent in a country school near Van- dalia. Later he attended the Butler Township High School, graduating from there in 1911. The following fall he entered Wittenberg College. Springfield, Ohio, where he spent three years. While in school he enlisted in the Springfield militia in which he took an active interest. After the close of his third year in college he received his honorable discharge from the militia and on July 14, 1914, he enlisted in the regular army at Columbus, Ohio. He was in the barracks for several weeks when he was assigned to Co. B, 30th Infantry, and was transferred to Presidio of San Francisco, Calif., where they were in camp until December 23, 1915, when they left for New York by boat, spend- ing Christmas on the Panama Canal, being the first company of soldiers to pass through the canal. Upon the arrival at New York they were stationed at Plattsburg until the Mexican trou- ble, when they were transferred to Camp Eagle Pass, Texas, where he remained until after the war with Mexico. He was then transferred to Camp Stanley, Texas, where he received his commission as First Lieutenant, and was assigned as instructor in a training camp. In September, 1917. he was promoted to a Captaincy in the regular army. Later at his third training camp he was killed while examining an artillery shell which exploded February 13, 1918, causing his death nine days later, February 22, 1918, at Camp Stanley, Texas.