Ernest Frederick Mahr (1)(2)

s/o: Ernest & Harriet (Woehnert) Mahr (7)

B: 13 Jul 1895 Buffalo, NY (1)(2)

D: 08 Jul 1922 Providence Hospital -Washington, DC at 27 yrs (2a)(6)(7)

Cause: Appendicitis (6a)

Burial: Interment date: 10 Jul 1922 (2a)

Engaged to be married on July 17, 1922 (6a)

To: Miss Dorothy McNeil (6a)

Of the Dentistry department of St. Elizabeth's Hospital (6a)

Education:

1916 Syracuse University – Bachelor of Science in Biology (6a)

1917-1918 Rockefeller Institute at NY (6a)

1919: University of Chicago – awarded a Fellowship in Biology (6a)

1922: George Washington University – Doctor of Philosophy (6a)(8)

Military: Died while on active duty

Lieut. Army Med Corps. (2a)(6a)

Enlistment: 01 Apr 1918 New York, NY (4)

Honorable Discharge: 11 Aug 1919 (2a)(4)

White, Place of Birth: Buffalo, NY, Age or date of birth: 22 8/12 yrs

New York Abstracts of WWI Military Service: [info below listed on card] (4)

Serial number: 690 088

Residence: 227 Clarendon St. Syracuse, New York

Organization served in, with dates of assignments and transfers:

1918 Aug 28: MD Base Hosp Camp Upton NY

1919 Jan 27: Yale Army Laboratory School New Haven, Conn

Grades, with date of appointment:

St Elizabeth Hosp Washington DC to disch

Pvt 1cl Aug 16/18; Corp Mch 1/19; Sgt Apr 30/19

Served overseas: None (4)

Residences: (5)

1917: 227 Clarendon St. Syracuse, NY-Student Syracuse University

Description:

Medium build, Slender, Eye Color: Blue, Hair: Light Brown (1)

Sources:

(1)  US World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, June 5, 1917 Syracuse, NY.

(2)  US Veterans Administration Master Index 1917-1940, Ernest Frederick Mahr.

(2a) US National Cemetery Interment Control Form 1928-1962

(3)  Marriage

(4)  Military: New York US Abstracts of World War I Military Service 1917-1919, NY State Archives, Ancestry, Viewable card.

(5)  Residences

(6)  The Sunday Star – Washington, DC, Sunday July 9, 1922, page: 6

6a) The Evening World – New York, NY, Thur Jul 13, 1922 Page: 28

(7)  District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961, FamilySearch.org, Ernest F. Mahr.

(8)  The Washington Herald, Thur June 8, 1922, Pg: 2, Nine Hoods Awarded.

(9)  The Buffalo Commercial, Buffalo NY, Sat May 6, 1899, Pg: 12, "Mrs. Mahr Won"

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