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On May 7, 1918, the President of the University of California, the Secretary to the Governor of California, Speakers of the California Assembly and Senate, the District Attorney of Alameda County, the California State Insurance Commissioner and a…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

CF-20200306-Patriotism surged when us entered the 0001.PDF

Date: 1977-01-27
Source: Green Sheet
Type: NEWS

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Parade up Mission Hill. The Post Office in the background to the right.

Date: 1917
Type: PHOTO

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"Put me among the girls" was Norton Pratt's request accompanying his photo in the 1914 Santa Cruz High School Trident yearbook.

Norton Pratt was born about 1896; however, details pertaining to his early life have not surfaced. He spent part of…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

Pearl Turner was the only Santa Cruz County woman, serving in the armed forces, to have died during World War I.

Mary Pearl Turner was born in California about 1892 to Harry and Sarah Turner. Sometime between 1900 and 1910 Pearl, along with her…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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A Davenport Greek went "Over There" to support his two brothers in the Greek army.

Manuel S. Christodoulon was born on the Greek Island of Samos in August 1887 and came to the United States about 1912. Upon arrival he joined two of his brothers,…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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Farming failed to earn Louis an exemption, and influenza gave him an unwanted one.

Louis Davis Chaney was born on September 18, 1889, in Dunstable, Massachusetts, to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Chaney. It has not been established when Louis arrived in…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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A Watsonville business school graduate made an unwelcome contract with the flu.

Lester Frank Rowe was born on October 6, 1897, in Redwood City, California, to Frank and Bertie Francis Rowe. The family moved to the Pajaro Valley while Lester was…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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"My daddy is going to shoot the Kaiser. When I grow up I am going to shoot Kaisers too," declared Leon Luther Clarke Jr.

Leon Luther Clarke was born about 1884 in Illinois. Census records indicate that his parents were also natives of that state,…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

From a few references and some speculation a foggy portrait of this soldier can be attempted.

First World War draft records for California note that Kenneth James Reid was born on November 9, 1897, and that his mother's name was Dellie Belle…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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