Illinois native who served in the US army at the World War II Battle of the Bulge, where he received disabling wounds; became Illinois state commander of Disabled American Veterans. Includes emergency war-time teaching certificate of his wife Catharine, and correspondence with political figures Otto Kerner and John F. Kennedy.
WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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