Byrl E. Sylvester papers, 1909-1921 (bulk 1917-1918).

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Byrl E. Sylvester papers, 1909-1921 (bulk 1917-1918).

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Letters, news clippings, and other papers of a soldier from Plainview, Minnesota, documenting his service as a volunteer Red Cross ambulance driver in France during World War I and the airplane accident that claimed his life while training in Florida to become a Navy pilot.

0.3 cu. ft. (1 box).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 7315860

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Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Sylvester, Byrl E. (Byrl Edwin), 1892-1918.

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Byrl Edwin Sylvester was born at Plainview, Minnesota on October 19, 1892 to Edwin L. and Hettie L. (Dillon) Sylvester. He graduated from Plainview High School in 1914, and attended the University of Minnesota for three years before leaving to work in the Plainview State Bank, of which his father was president. Sylvester joined the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, a unit of the American Red Cross, on April 24, 1917. He left for service in France in May 1917, where he worke...

Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.).

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Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Winona Consistory No. 4.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Sylvester, E. L. (Edwin L.), 1859-.

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