World War I enlistment records for Morristown and Morris Township, circa 1908-1918 Finding Aid to the World War I enlistment records for Morristown and Morris Township, circa 1908-1918 North Jersey History Center
The Morristown and Morris Township Library One Miller Road Morristown, NJ 07960
Overview of Collection Originally recorded by the Office of the Morristown Registrar, Edward K. Mills. World War I enlistment records for Morristown and Morris Township, circa 1908-1918. HM6 Morr WWI Rec circa 1908-1918 .75 linear feet in 2 MSS boxes Description of the World War I enlistment records of Morristown and Morris Township

The majority of the 184 enlistment records are U.S. Postal Cards or, as called by the Postal Service, Reply Cards. Printed on one side of the card is the Morristown Registrar's return address, printed on the other side are the enlistment information questions. The questions include: the name of the person enlisting, into which organization he is enlisting, his date of birth, date of enlistment (or commission), date of departure; the length of his residence in Morristown or Morris Township; the church he attended, his rank (if applicable) and his home address. The remaining questions asked for their present address as well as the name of any previous military experience.

Sometimes the person themselves filled out the card, though a relative often supplied the information after they had already left for training. There are sometimes more than one card per enlistee, and a few folders also contain correspondence that accompanied the card. According to the dates on the cards, men were enlisting as early as 1908, 1912, 1914 and 1915; even though the United States did not enter the war until April 6, 1917. Also of interest, one woman registered for the Nurses' Corp (see box 1, folder 104).

Related Works in the North Jersey History Center

Call Number: HM6 Morr WWI Vols 1-2. Morristown's Roll of Honor in the World War, 1917-1918.

Call Number: HM6 Morr WWI Rol. Roll of honor: Morristown and Morris Township men who served in World War I, 1917-1918.

Call Number: HM6 Morr WWI Inf. Morristown Infantry Battalion. Scrapbook, 1917-1919.

 Arrangement of the Records

The cards have been arranged in ascending numeric order. Before the cards arrived in our custody, each card had been numbered in an upper corner, it is presumed, by the Registrar's Office.

Important Information for Users of the Collection

The World War I Enlistment records for Morristown and Morris Township is open for research under the conditions of the North Jersey History Center archives access policy. Documents and items may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research, however, as with all materials in the North Jersey History Center, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection.

Preferred Citation

World War I enlistment records for Morristown and Morris Township. North Jersey History Center, The Morristown and Morris Township Library.

 Processing Information

Document encoded by Mary McMahon Dawson, 2008.

 Container List 1 1 Theodore Watson: date of enlistment, December 1916. 2 Harold E. Watson: date of enlistment, May 1, 1917. 3 Robert B. Bradley: date of enlistment, May 1917. 4 Francis B. Bradley: date of enlistment, May 1917. 5 Hugh L.M. Cole: date of enlistment, April 27, 1917(?). 6 Robert L. Klinedinst: date of enlistment, May 5, 1917. 7 Benjamin Muirhead Van Cleve: date of enlistment, March 26, 1917. 8 Laird A. Barkalow: date of enlistment, May 8, 1917. 9 Donald F. Taylor: date of enlistment, May 1917. 10 Thompson Mulford Barker: date of enlistment, May 1917. 11 John Murray Forbes, Jr.: date of enlistment, June 4, 1917. 12 David C. Owens: date of enlistment, April 7, 1917. 13 Peter Malcom Augustus Pierson: date of enlistment, April 30, 1917. 14 Shannon Lord Meany: date of enlistment, May 14, 1917. 15 Michael J. Sullivan: date of enlistment, July 12, 1915. 16 Daniel A. Sullivan: date of enlistment, July 14, 1908. 17 Edwin Robert Jolley: date of enlistment, May 14, 1917. 18 Frederick Henry Welsh: date of enlistment, May 18, 1917. 19 William H. Reeve: date of enlistment, April 10, 1917. 20 Thomas J. Cooney: date of enlistment, May 5, 1917. 21 John B. Pitney: date of enlistment, August 1916. 22 Clarence F. Talmage: date of enlistment, April 18, 1917. 23 John W. Castles: date of enlistment, March 1917. 24 John P. Gaty: date of enlistment, April 11, 1917. 25 Theo. E. Gaty, Jr.: date of enlistment, April 11, 1917. 26 Charles Russell Gregor: date of enlistment, April 19, 1917. 27 S. Chandleigh Hicks: date of enlistment, May 10, 1917. 28 Joseph T. Markey: date of enlistment, May 28, 1917. 29 Earle M. Cutler: date of enlistment, May 23, 1917. 30 Gustave Becker Jamieson: date of enlistment, May 1917. 31 John Vincent Murphy: date of enlistment, May 13, 1917. 32 John J. Holton: date of enlistment, April 23, 1917. 33 Robert W. Dolan: date of enlistment, June 2, 1917. 34 John Sampson Elliott: date of enlistment, September 1917. 35 Robert S.F. Randolph: date of enlistment, November 6, 1916. 36 Patrick Joseph Fleming: date of enlistment, May 1, 1917. 37 Patrick J. Mahoney: date of enlistment, June 4, 1917. 38 Waldemar S. Orr: date of enlistment, June 1916. 39 Paul Revere Burke: date of enlistment, April 1917. 40 Rev. Eugene S. Burke: date of enlistment, not dated. 41 Walter H. Downs: date of enlistment, circa June 1917. 42 Wm. J. F. Dooling: date of enlistment, February 1917. 43 Edward Shippen: date of enlistment, June 22, 1916. 44 John Edwin Follis: date of enlistment, March 1917 (?). 45 Roy Ernest Van Aken: date of enlistment, April 14, 1917. 46 Howell Forbes: date of enlistment, 1914. 47 Francis Thomas Hillock: date of enlistment, February 26, 1918. 48 Rev. Barrett P. Tyler: date of enlistment, June 15, 1918. 49 Emlin P. Franklin: date of enlistment, April 1918. 50 Daniel B. McElwee Jr.: date of enlistment, August 5, 1918. 51 Joseph Lombardi: date of enlistment, July 29, 1914. 52 James A. McAvoy: date of enlistment, June 24, 1918. 53 Peter J. MacDermott, Jr.: date of enlistment, April 10, 1918. 54 Frank Hrubes: date of enlistment, May 1917. 55 Vernon Bunny: date of enlistment, July 8, 1918 56 Charles J. Raymond: date of enlistment, March 1918. 57 Henry Keble Merritt: date of enlistment, February 9, 1918. 58 Edward J. Caulfield: date of enlistment, June 23, 1917. 59 George W. Williamson: date of enlistment, October 9, 1918. 60 Edward B. Hall: date of enlistment, October 24, 1918. 61 G.S. Hall: date of enlistment, 1918. 62 VanderPool: date of enlistment, October 19, 1918. 63 Minot Jones: date of enlistment, October 8, 1918. 64 Benedictus E. Niese: date of enlistment, 65 E.P. Collins : date of enlistment, August 12, 1918. 66 Robert L. Murphy: date of enlistment, May 9, 1917. 67 Frederick H. Thomas: date of enlistment, September 12, 1918. 68 Edward F. Goin: date of enlistment, June 25, 1917. 69 Robert Ralston Reed: date of enlistment, July 17, 1917 70 Francis J. West: date of enlistment, June 25, 1917. 71 Stewart MacKie Emery: date of enlistment, April 1917. 72 Michael A. J. Sagarese: date of enlistment, October 21, 1918. 73 Theodore Emery: date of enlistment, June 1, 1917. 74 Sherman Owens: date of enlistment, July 27, 1918. 75 Frederick A. Brown : date of enlistment, June 27, 1917. 76 William Ramsey Jack: date of enlistment, 1917. 77 Paul Woodhull Drake: date of enlistment, October 7, 1918. 78 Orion J. Hurst : date of enlistment, June 29, 1917. 79 Frederick W. Ford: date of enlistment, October 21, 1918. 80 Ralph H. Cutler: date of enlistment, June 1917. 81 Edward Blair Sutphen: date of enlistment, October 17, 1918. 82 J. Karl Kronenberg: date of enlistment, June 1918. 83 John G. Bates: date of enlistment, October 19, 1918. 84 J. Ellwood Hally: date of enlistment, October 1918. 85 Elbert S. Kip: date of enlistment, October 24, 1918. 86 John Sagarese, Jr.: date of enlistment, October 25, 1918 87 George Lewis Johnson, M.D.: date of enlistment, October 26, 1918. 88 George G. Thomson: date of enlistment, November 2, 1918. 89 Harold L. Myers: date of enlistment, October 28, 1918. 90 William Leslie Edison: date of enlistment, July 13, 1918. 91 Dr. Edw. C. Lonney: date of enlistment, October 31, 1918. 92 Jacob Greenberg: date of enlistment, September 9, 1918. 93 Dr. H. Leo Rowine: date of enlistment, December 5, 1917. 94 Frank Hobart Davis: date of enlistment, June 17, 1918. 95 Thos. T. Ehlers: date of enlistment, February 1915. 96 John F. Barris: date of enlistment, July 1, 1917. 97 George P. Smith: date of enlistment, September 10, 1918. 98 James Shepard Dennis: date of enlistment, June 1918. 99 Robert P. Rennick: date of enlistment, June/July 1918. 100 John V. Fay: date of enlistment, July 10, 1917. 101 W. G. Fischer: date of enlistment, July 25, 1917. 102 Frank J. Dunlap: date of enlistment, May 28, 1918. 103 David G. Pierson: date of enlistment, May 29, 1918. 104 Gertrude E. Lennox: date of enlistment, May 5, 1918. 105 Edward E. Silvers: date of enlistment, June 1918. 106 H. Graves White: date of enlistment, July 3, 1918. 107 Harrison C. Pierson: date of enlistment, May 29, 1918. 108 VanRensaleer J. Cortright: date of enlistment, June 23, 1918. 109 Edward H. Kane: date of enlistment, July 1917. 110 Samuel G. Karn: date of enlistment, July 10, 1917. 111 John L. Murphy: date of enlistment, July 24, 1917. 112 Albert George Pierson: date of enlistment, August 8, 1918. 113 Martin G. Wright, Jr.: date of enlistment, June 10, 1917. 114 Ralph Thompson: date of enlistment, May 4, 1917. 115 Arthur F. Meeker: date of enlistment, August 1, 1917. 116 Ernest Orr: date of enlistment, June 1917. 117 Robert A. Sagarese: date of enlistment, June 26, 1917. 118 Dr. Robert C. Vreeland: date of enlistment, June 4, 1917. 119 Patrick Naughton: date of enlistment, July 27, 1917. 120 John Joseph Ambrose: date of enlistment, July 1917. 121 Willis M. Speicher: date of enlistment, May 4, 1917. 122 Albert St. Holland: date of enlistment, not dated. 123 Edward J. Condon, Jr.: date of enlistment, August 2, 1917. 124 Frank M. Condon: date of enlistment, June 18, 1917. 125 Frank S. Lippman: date of enlistment, August 1917. 126 Raymond P. Heath: date of enlistment, August 1917. 127 Herbert ----- : date of enlistment, April 23, 1917. 2 1 Theodore Watson: date of enlistment, December 1916. 2 Robert Martin Howard: date of enlistment, July 1917. 3 Burton W. Irving: date of enlistment, May 2, 1917. 4 Louis Rosenberg: date of enlistment, August 1917. 5 Augustus A. Fay: date of enlistment, June 18, 1917. 6 Russell J. NonCarrow: date of enlistment, August 10, 1917. 7 Norman K. Karn: date of enlistment, April 1917. 8 Alwyn H. Maier: date of enlistment, July 17, 1917. 9 Walter J. Eschmann: date of enlistment, October 23, 1916. 10 Ernest Murphy: date of enlistment, November 17, 1914 11 John Leoser: date of enlistment, April 1917. 12 Thomas S. Leoser: date of enlistment, June 1917. 13 Sefrine Maury: date of enlistment, not dated. 14 William James Vanderhoof: date of enlistment, June 15, 1917. 15 Thomas Grimes: date of enlistment, July 4, 1917. 16 Russell A. Brown: date of enlistment, July 6, 1917. 17 Chas. A. Brown, Jr.: date of enlistment, July 6, 1917. 18 Michael Galdi: date of enlistment, September 8, 1917. 19 John J. Dacey: date of enlistment, August 22, 1917. 20 Daniel Francis Dacey: date of enlistment, August 17, 1917 21 James Hillock: date of enlistment, June 2, 1917. 22 Louis C. Wulfers: date of enlistment, July 1917. 23 William B. Churchman: date of enlistment, January 1912. 24 Louis Francis McAvoy: date of enlistment, November 1916. 25 Edward Francis Sweeney: date of enlistment, May 4, 1917. 26 Henry W. B----: date of enlistment, March 29, 1917. 27 Jacob Hoffner Benson: date of enlistment, July 23, 1917 28 George C. Fraseer, Jr.: date of enlistment, August 30, 1917. 29 William Albert Damitz: date of enlistment, September 18, 1917. 30 James Joseph Haney: date of enlistment, September 20, 1917. 31 Alfred Burns: date of enlistment, September 1917. 32 Wallace W. Barker: date of enlistment, September 7, 1917. 33 Nathan Cone: date of enlistment, January 15, 1918. 34 Henry G. Carrell: date of enlistment, December 27, 1917. 35 Albert P. Frapwell: date of enlistment, June 1917. 36 William H. Ratley: date of enlistment, December 1917. 37 Ralph B. Urmy: date of enlistment, October 1917. 38 Bigelow Watts: date of enlistment, January 1918. 39 Edward Nelson Babington: date of enlistment, July 1917. 40 Cuthbert H. Armstrong: date of enlistment, June 28, 1917. 41 Frederick Burnett Tompkins: date of enlistment, December 10, 1917. 42 Gerald C. Greenberger: date of enlistment, July 24, 1917. 43 Benjamin F. Greenberger: date of enlistment, November 29, 1917. 44 George T.A. Lintott: date of enlistment, May 10, 1917. 45 Lloyd Russel Nelson: date of enlistment, November 28, 1917. 46 Frank D. Righter: date of enlistment, August 30, 1917. 47 Duncan E. Stults: date of enlistment, December 1917. 48 Frank L. Applegit: date of enlistment, May 1917. 49 H.L. Morrison Capron: date of enlistment, June/July 1917. 50 John J. Denman: date of enlistment, August 1917. 51 Everett Howell Hughes: date of enlistment, April 28, 1917. 52 Charles M. Fleischmann: date of enlistment, August 1917. 53 Henry Rawle: date of enlistment, July 1917. 54 James H. McLean: date of enlistment, October 1917. 55 Albert C. Blunt: date of enlistment, June 1877. 56 Alfred F. Conway: date of enlistment, December 13, 1917. 57 Walter Anderson: date of enlistment, December 14, 1917. 58 Le Roy Pruden: date of enlistment, June 4, 1917.