A comprehensive roster of casualties from Calumet County, Wisconsin, detailing the hometown, age, unit, location of death, and cause of death for soldiers, sailors, marines, and nurses who sacrificed their lives during World War I.
S. H. Harrison, born on January 17, 1837, in Rutland County, Vermont, moved to Wisconsin in 1855 and later to Minnesota in 1859. He served in the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1866 and was commissioned as a first lieutenant. After relocating to Harrison County, Missouri, he moved to Jewell County, Kansas, in 1875. Harrison established a law practice and held the position of Justice of the Peace. A landowner with significant agricultural holdings, he married Albina M. Godding in 1858, and they had five children.
S. F. Vaughn, born in 1854 in Calumet County, Wisconsin, began his career in printing at fourteen despite a limited education. He founded the Black Creek Journal in 1877 and the Northern Wisconsin News in 1879. In August 1881, he moved west and, alongside his brother C. S. Vaughn, established the Western Advocate in Omio.
B. F. Dow was born in Maine on January 13, 1845, and moved to Wisconsin in 1853. He enlisted in the Union army in 1864 and was discharged in 1866. Dow homesteaded in Jewell County, Kansas, in 1871 and began his merchandising career in Omio in 1879, constructing a stone store building in 1880. He married in Chilton, Wisconsin, on June 7, 1870.
The Brotherton Indians comprised two distinct bands of Algonquian tribes. The more prominent band formed in 1788 from Mahican, Wappinger, Mohegan, and others in Oneida County, New York, under the leadership of Samson Occum. They adopted English and numbered 250 in 1791 before relocating to Wisconsin in 1833, where they assimilated as citizens. The second band included Raritan and other Delaware factions who occupied a New Jersey reservation until 1802 before joining the first band in New York, eventually dwindling to about 40 individuals.
Fred D. Cleaves, born in 1852 in Stockbridge, Wisconsin, has held various significant public roles in the Pacific Northwest. Migrating with his family to the region in 1864, he later returned to Wisconsin for education but eventually settled in Puget Sound. Cleaves taught penmanship and served as a county treasurer and district court clerk in Skagit County. He also ran a real estate office and is recognized for his integrity and community trust.