Armenian News Network / Groong
NINETY-SIX YEARS AGO TODAY. The S.S.
Leviathan leaves Hoboken, New Jersey on Sunday, February 16 th 1919
with nearly 250 early responder volunteers of the American Committee for Relief
in the Near East anxious and determined to help in Բeconstruction.ՠTalented and
willing American help for survivors of the Turkish Genocide against the
Armenians is on its way. A detailed list
of workers and their efforts to salvage remnants, and Ұutting the fragments
together.Ӡ
Armenian News Network / Groong
February 16, 2015
Special to Groong by Abraham D. Krikorian and Eugene L. Taylor
Long Island, NY
҈ere is not a nation,ӠɠҴemporarily washed from its habitat by the wave of war, but an entire people, deported, exiled, scattered, tortured and butchered — and not for the sake of conquest or strategic advantage over the enemy, but for the deliberate purpose of exterminating that people from the face of the earth. What is left of the Armenian race ɛare] but few Ҧragments,Ӡand the task of putting these fragments together and maintaining them is the task of the United States.
1915 release to the Press by Committee on Armenian Atrocities (New York City)
Ҕhere recently was a Preparedness Parade, which marched up Fifth Avenue twenty abreast and took about thirteen hours to pass a given point. From 10 A.M. till well into the evening, this great army of 125,000 continued to tramp up the street. If the Armenian men, women and children who died in Turkey within a twelvemonth should rise again and march in solemn procession to beg the assistance of the American people for their surviving brothers, the procession...marching twenty abreast would take two days and two nights to pass the Great Viewing Stand.Ӽ/p>
From Ғelief Work in the Turkish Empire in Bulletin No. 5ӠLatest News Concerning the Armenian and Syrian Sufferers May 24, 1916
Foreword
We contemplated designating this post as Ҽi style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Leviathan Party Sent to Turkey-in-Asia by the American Committee for Relief in the Near East in the Aftermath of Massacre, Persecution and Starvation: a list and partial profile of the Ԇirst Responder Volunteersՠas a resource in Armenian genocide studies.Ӽspan style="mso-spacerun:yes"> The title ultimately used is considerably longer, but we opted for the longer because it was more detailed and hence more informative. We like detail since as the adage says Ҕhe devil is in the detail.Ӽ/p>
All should know that this is a year of special commemoration. It is the centenary of the onset of the genocide against the Armenians by the Young Turk regime who were in charge of the Ottoman Empire. There are of course many ways of remembering. Some years ago on our retirement we undertook the task of attempting to attest and attribute relevant photographs. Attest simply stated means affirming the accuracy of what a photograph represents, and attribute means identifying a given photograph with a person, place and time. [Endnote 1]
What follows is an effort on our part to make available for convenient use and further study, a listing of volunteers who went to genocide-ravaged regions and centers of destruction to help. Theirs are important human stories ̶ stories of work and effort among survivors to replace despair with hope.
This project was started some years ago. Although it has not matured as much as we had hoped in the interim, it seems appropriate to make it available now in this commemorative year so that those interested can make use of it and perhaps even see fit to add to it. We hope that it may one day reach the level of completeness that it so richly deserves. We are aware of a number of collaborative group and joint efforts aimed at achieving ends this special commemorative year that would otherwise be overwhelming for any given individual. Filling in the blanks here may well qualify for such further work. Only time will tell.
In an extemporaneous film we uploaded to You Tube on the History of the Armenian Orphan Rug we have described the volunteers who served in the Near East Relief as ԈeroesӮ Indeed they were. The range of broad human service extended by these volunteers was, to use a nowadays much overused word, awesome. We can think of no better place than the lists of volunteers who served in the Near East Relief as a starting place to track down photographs relating to the period when the pieces of the Armenian nation were being picked up. In this posting we will not present specific photographs reflecting what workers found at their appointed posts. A few may be seen, however, incorporated into our video. [Endnote 2.]
Like many others, we view photographs as witnesses. Many will agree that the Internet is both a blessing and a curse. This is especially so when it comes to attestation and attribution. Reinventing the ҏld CountyӬ the yerghir, or the Land, imagining, better yet visualizing the various persecutions in Ottoman Turkey culminating in the Genocide, and the post-Genocidal period each have their enthusiasts, followers and partisans. Surprisingly, it has only been relatively recently that professional historians have oriented themselves in seeking to understand the past through photographs and imagery. For our part, we will state that it is not an easy task, is fraught with many challenges, and depends in no small measure on a good deal of luck. We are content, indeed happy, that we are not historians and there have felt quite free to follow any path that conditions and opportunities seem to dictate. [Endnote 3]
Deliberate confusion and obfuscation of incontestable facts through dogged and selective concentration on specific photographs has been utilized and exploited by many who seek to deny the Armenian Genocide just as they have been by those who deny the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews and others who were targets of the venomous hatred of the Nazis. [Endnote 4] The fact remains however that no amount of minor criticism can detract from the fact of the Armenian Genocide. The intent on the part of Դhe Turksՠand their supporters ever since the perpetration of the genocide has been to stimulate controversy by whatever means may seem appropriate at any given moment. As stated many years ago by Dr. Gerard Libaridian “The Armenian Genocide is not an historiographical problem, it is a political one.”
In our experience, one of the best ways to achieve excellent attestation and attribution, that is image and reality, is by seeking out individuals or their descendants who were on the scene at any given point or given timeframe and actually took or have photographs, and who wrote letters and accounts, and even kept diaries. Obviously this is not a trivial task, but it is a valuable approach that has been very much underexploited so far as finding photographs that can serve as historical landmarks.
We, like many others, have noted the irony that many Armenian photographers were active in the Ottoman Empire right from the very outset of availability of photography as a technique. Yet their legacy on the genocide and its aftermath is exceedingly minimal for very understandable reasons. When the Ottoman Government finally relented to the repeated requests of the United States and grudgingly allowed relief to be given to its victims, the response was quick. This has been commented on from time to time using arguments that Դhe Turksՠwere merely covering their selfish interests in the event their ally Germany lost the war, or that they themselves could reap benefits from Ԧoreign aidՠ– those in authority seeking shamelessly to take a percentage for themselves through graft, corruption, theft whatever. There also was a very real concern, even fear, on the part of Turkey that the United States might enter the war on the side of the Entente, declare war on Turkey etc. There even was an equally damning evaluation of Դhe Turksՠby an American who knew and worked over many years with the Ottoman government authorities. He drew attention to the Turks as predictably being of an unfocussed mindset whereby they were typically unable to carry out any ңontinuity of action.Ӽspan style="mso-spacerun:yes"> Be that as it may, and on the surface of things, relief was being allowed by the Ottoman authorities. The real problem was getting it to those in desperate need. Travel infrastructure in the Empire was marginal. Not only getting relief to all in need but in a timely manner. That activity constituted additional challenges and many stories have emerged from that trying to work under such circumstances. For example, trucks were ultimately deemed very unsatisfactory for transporting relief supplies to the Kharpert region. Ultimately, time-tested camel caravans had to be relied upon to bring materials from the Black Sea coastal ports.
But let us jump ahead to the time when the war was over, and a number of the areas of Asia Minor were opened up, more or less to relief and reconstruction. After all, survivors who had been driven out were supposedly being allowed by the Էinnersՠof the war to ԧo home.՛Endnote 4]
Before we give the main enumeration of the volunteers we think some additional background will be useful. We give this background in the form of a few accounts from newspapers. This is because the newspapers were the main source of information for those first learning what was being done to the Armenians of Turkey, and eventually those Americans who were contemplating volunteering. The American missionaries who voluntarily left or were forced to leave the Empire during the genocide or were on leave back home or in Europe and could not return were among the first who were anxious to get back to Դheir people.ռ/p>
A few references and excerpts from the New York Times follow. The ones selected here are interesting especially since they refer to the situation fairly early on.
NY Times Sept. 15, 1916, pg. 4. Washington. Sept. 14, 1916. Ҕurkey Will Permit Relief for Syrians. Ottoman Government Yields to Pleas by Washington for Starving People.Ӽo:p>
Ҕhe action reverses the previous attitude of Turkish officials, who had
refused two urgent please of the department for the privilege to make food
shipmentsɔhe [State] department regarded Turkeyճ action was especially timely,
since Oct. 21 and 22 have been named in a proclamation by President Wilson as
relief days for raising further funds and supplies for Syrians and
Armenians. The consent of the Ottoman government with respect to Syria does not
apply to Armenia, but negotiations are being continued for similar concessions
there. (Our emphasis) As forwarded by the Embassy at Constantinople, the
Turkish communication fixes only one condition, that supplies for Syria be
distributed from Beirut through the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societiesɼb
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Turkey had insisted that there was no
need for relief supplies there [Syria].
Advices from other sources, however, convinced the State Department that
many of the inhabitants had been reduced to starvation.Ӽspan
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
NY Times Oct. 4, 1916, pg. 2. Washington. Oct. 3, 1916. ҁsks for $5,000,000 to Succor Armenia. American Committee Starts Biggest Undertaking of Mercy Since Relief of Belgium.Ӽo:p>
An exhaustive summary of the whole Armenian and Syrian situation was made public and will be sent to ministers of 120,000 churches all over the country and to many leading citizens and relief organizations. A fund of $5,000,000 is called for to relieve 1,000,000 destitute, exiled and starving Armenians and Syrians scattered broadcast all over Turkey, Persia, Syria and Palestine. The appeal declares that nearly 2,000,000 Armenians originally in their native country, three quarters of a million have been massacred, or have died of wounds, disease or exhaustion since the war began. ɠҐeople were found eating grass, herbs and locusts,ӊsays the committee in describing its investigation of conditions in Armenia, ҡnd in desperate cases dead animals and human bodies have been reported to have been eaten. In some cases men were lined up so that several could be shot with one bullet in order not to waste ammunition. A mother said that not a girl above 12 (and some younger) in the village of — escaped violation. The people kill and eat street dogs...Ӽo:p>
NY Times Oct. 22, 1916, pg. 2. ҇ive MILLIONS TODAY TO SAVE ARMENIANS.Ӽo:p>
ɠ҉t was announced
yesterday that one wealthy American who has already given $18,000 to the
Armenian and Syrian fund had sent another check for $25,000. By request of the giver his name was withheld
and will not be made public. Part of the receipts of the Yale-Harvard football
game in the Yale stadium will be donated to the fund while the Rev.҂illyӠSunday, who is holding a revival is to take up a
special collection in the Detroit Tabernacle.
As soon as the money collected begins coming in, which will be the next
few days, the Committee in New York, of which Charles P. Crane, 70 Fifth
Avenue, is the Treasurer, will begin the purchase of the most needed supplies,
which are to be shipped to Armenia and Syria on a United States naval collier
loaned to the committee for that purpose by order of President Wilson. Mr. Crane said yesterday that he hoped that
at least $4,000,000 will be raised in the next three weeks.
A statement detailing
conditions in Armenia and Syria, as based on the latest reports received from
Turkey, was given out by the Armenian and Syrian Committee yesterday. What is
left of the Armenian race is described in that statement as but few Ҧragments,Ӡand the task of putting these
fragments together and maintaining them is the task, the committee adds, of the
United States,
҈ere is not a nation,Ӡsays the statement, Ҵemporarily washed from it
habitat by the wave of war, but an entire people, deported, exiled, scattered,
tortured and butchered — and not for the sake of conquest or strategic
advantage over the enemy, but for the deliberate purpose of exterminating that
people from the face of the earth.Ӽ/i> (our emphasis, see epigraph at the outset of this article.)
Ҕhen follows a
complete story of the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks, and of the
torturing or deportation of the survivors, a story which was told in all its
detail in Viscount Bryceճ report, which was published in THE NEW YORK TIMES two
weeks ago.
ҏne dollar, it is
pointed out, will sustain ten people one week in Asia Minor. An average of $1
given by each American, it is added, will keep alive what is left of the
sufferers for two years.Ӽo:p>
Hopefully these
newspaper reports set the stage a bit as to what was happening after the onset
of the Genocide in 1915. Let us go
forward to 1919.
The history of the
American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACRNE), a predecessor of
what came ultimately to be the Near East Relief, has been told more than a few
times. [Endnote 5]
After the War ended it
took a while for the conditions in Asia Minor to improve to the point where
relief workers could enter the Constantinople port areas (they had been
mined). Eastern Asiatic Turkey was a
still greater obstacle, and the Americans who went over to assess the situation
concluded that it was not yet safe for the volunteers to travel into the
interior.
Finally, in the NY
Times February 17, 1919 pg. 6 we read that Ҏear East Expedition Leaves.Ӡ A reproduction of the full notice follows.
The S.S. Leviathan was
formerly the S.S. Vaterland, a Hamburg-American (German) liner. It was the largest ship on the seas (tonnage
59,956; length 950 ft.; 4 times around the promenade deck = 1 mile) and had
been interned at Hoboken by the Americans at the outbreak of the European war
in 1914. It was taken over, ңommandeeredӠby the U.S. Government when the
Americans declared war on Germany on December 7, 1917. It was refitted, renamed S.S. Leviathan and
was used as an Army transport for American troops to Brest, Finistre, France in
Brittany. The ship was often referred to as үne of Germanyճ worst enemies.Ӡ
Nine thousand soldiers were typically carried per trip.
Below we present an
image from a German postcard giving the particulars of Vaterland. This is
followed by a photograph showing the Leviathan painted in camouflage. It was
photographed on May 30, 1918, by the United States Signal Corps photographer
Lt. A.J. Sutton and we scanned it at U.S. National Archives, College Park,
Maryland (RG 111 Box 105). When the Leviathan was transporting the ACRNE
volunteers to Brest, France, the Leviathan still had its camouflage (see 2nd
image below). By May 1919 its camouflage had been painted over or removed (see
3rd photo below). That photo also shows tugs near the Leviathan that
allows the sheer scale of size to be appreciated.
The June 13, 1924,
issue of Near East Reliefճ now very rare serial magazine Ҕeam WorkӠwe find a
fairly comprehensive document, some 64 pages long, of those who served in
relief efforts. The Ҍeviathan
partyӠpeople are so designated. Since they belong to that distinct group of
what might today be called Ԧirst respondersՠthey have special pride of place
not only for their timely volunteering for service in general but their very
early service from among the more than 10,000 individuals who eventually
served. Others had given aid and helped
survivors of the massacres etc. but were not part of the large organized effort
that constituted the ACRNE. It is beyond
the scope of this brief article to provide the significance of all this in the
context of the foundations of humanitarian aid efforts but so far as the United
States is concerned it may be useful to point out that a December 14, 1930 brief book review of the Story of Near East Relief, an interpretation by Rev.
Dr. James L. Barton, 1930) opened with the following: ҉n a very real and
intimate sense this book belongs to almost the whole of the people of the
United States, since almost every man, woman and child in the country
contributed to the work of the Near East Relief, the story of whose labors and
achievements it tells.Ӡ(NY Times, 14 December 1930 BR pg.18). In Dr. Bartonճ ғtory of Near East
ReliefӠ(1930) there is an extensive listing of ҏverseas PersonnelӠin the form
of an appendix but only names are given. The two Գhotsՠof the same group photo
below taken on the British Red Cross Hospital Ship ҇loucester CastleӠshow the
workers in their ACRNE uniforms, expressly designed for the effort (see below
for a brief timetable of travel from which one can deduce a rough date the
photograph was taken).
Rough
Timetable of Travel
The Ҍeviathan PartyӠboarded
the ship on the 15th of February.
Early the next morning they were on their way. Among them were some women who were headed
for Paris to serve in the YMCA. Others were members of the Jewish Board. Mine-Sweeps were on the sides so that loose
mines could be cut loose. At night, full
black-out precautions were in place. The 6-day plus crossing was smooth and
they disembarked at Brest, France on Sunday morning 23 February. They made
their headquarters at the Red Cross at Brest, and boarded U.S. Hospital train
ҐullmansӠwith blankets and pillows—berths to just sit on for Marseilles. They
reached Marseilles on Wednesday around 1 P.M. and transferred promptly to the
British Hospital Ship ҇loucester CastleӬ described as an attractive ship
painted white with a Red Cross painted on both sides. It too was outfitted with
mine sweepers, as a precaution. (It had been attacked back in March of 1917 by
a German U-Boat in the English Channel. It was sunk but raised and
rehabilitated for service.)
They went ashore for a day
at Salonika, before going on to Constantinople. It was Saturday morning 8 March
that 241 people were landed – some 20 days from New York. Some were housed at
the terminal station of the ԏrientalՊBerlin-Bagdad Railway. Some were taken out
to the Prinkipo island, of the PrincesՠIslands group, and put up at a luxury
resort facility that was still occupied by German officer prisoners of War,
etc. Out on the Sea of Marmora were boats being unloaded of supplies at the
warehouse facility at the German-built deep-water port of Derindje. The main
warehouse building also constituted living quarters for women at the top (3rd)
floor, men 2nd floor, the storeroom, dining room, supplies divided
for each unit such as Cesaria, Sivas, Harput, Malatia etc. (These arrangements
etc. were switched and developed as time passed and the facility became fully
operational as a relief supply center.)
There is a fair body of
information through letters that provide detail and reflection on various
happenings. The Missionary Herald tried to give
updates on happenings (e.g., issue of June 1919 p. 235 ff.). The group that
left for Harpoot (Kharpert) was the last to leave Derindje. This was on the evening of Sunday, May 25,
1919. As an interesting aside we may quote from a letter written by Frances C.
MacDaniels to her mother dated 25 May, 1919 stating җeլl hate to leave this
place. It would make a wonderful summer resort. The beautiful bay, hills,
wildflowers, and birds. They say thereճ a lake [Geuljuk] 15 miles from Harpoot,
so maybe we can declare a holiday on the 4th of July and have a
regular bath.ӠShe seems not to have known that the ravines and gullies around
the Lake were but one of many scenes of mass murder of Armenians during the
Genocide. [See Endnote 6]
Before we present the Table,
it will be helpful also perhaps to gain a bit of a broader perspective by
reproducing a message communicated to Armenian Syrian Relief in New York City
by Navy Radio from Constantinople to Washington, D.C. and forwarded. This
message dated 3/12/1919 (read March 12) provides details such as were then
available on the disposition and status of the volunteers and their intended
postings at the various locations. The scale of this Ҧirst responderӊoperation
will be evident. Some of the names in this Ԓadio Messageՠwill be familiar to
some readers.
Message by Navy Radio,
received via Washington 3/12/19
Please
forward to Armenian Syrian Relief New York from Constantinople
Quote
Relief
ship Westmount sailed February 26th, for Batoum with 5000 tons
flour, one medical unit, clothing, supplies 5000 pairs shoes all for half
million waiting refugees and destitute people.
Dr. Main, Elmer, Hadley, Todd accompanying. Immediate need for seed grains desperate.
Pensacola
arrived March first with entire party in excellent health and cargo in perfect
condition. All hands engaged in
discharging and storing cargo in preparation for shipment to interior. Cargo all being stored in capacious
warehouses constructed by Germans for military purposes put at our disposal by
British without cost.
Twenty
car train leaving March 6th over Bagdad Railway with Professor Moore
and Dr. Barton for Konia, Adana, Tarsus, Aleppo, Urfa, and Mardin. Workers and supplies are taken also by same
train for Cesarea, Sivas, Marash, Aintab, Diarbekir and Harput. Additional trains will follow as soon as
workers arrive to receive and distribute supplies. Country can be entered with safety since
military officers accompany, giving protection and assisting in relief
operations. Railroads are in hands of
British; we are assigned whole trains for the transportation of cars, motor
lorries, workers, farm tractors and to land supplies at all points reached by
rail. Overland transportation more
difficult owing to bad state of roads.
Following
assignment of workers has been made;
Accompanying
Professor Moore to Konia, Cesarea, and Sivas are Custer, Hawkes, Beach, Thayer,
Duer, Linn, Sutherland, Curt, Partridge, Irwin, and John Moore.
Accompanying
Dr. Barton to Adana, Tarsus, Marash, Aintab, Aleppo, Urfa, Mardin, Diarbekir,
and Harput are Loucks, Means, Vrooman, Weeden, Farnsworth, President Gates,
Riggs, Wirt and Carrier.
Joining
Dr. Main, Caucasus, are Ussher, Greenleaf, Ayer, Gilman, and Babcock.
A[at?].
Constantinople center Farnham, Count, Carman, with Peet, Hatch and Washburn.
Temporarily
at dock and warehouses unloading and arranging cargo and hospital units, trucks
and Fords are MacGeehon, Hoagland, Warden, Perry, Kingsbury, Salman, Bailey,
Willson, Derstine, Bell, Field, and Capt. Niles Connelly, Burgess, and
Stoltzfus brothers, leaving temporarily at Beirut Miller, Hertzler, Graber,
Scott, Deter.
We
are calling from Beirut to Aleppo, Aintab, and Urfa Zimmermann, Miller,
Hertzler, Graber, Scott, Deter.
Visiting
Samsoun and Marsovan with supplies are Hatch, and Washburn, accompanied by
Holway and Smith.
Many
telegrams received from various parts of Turkey report thousands of Armenian
women and children forcibly taken by Turks are being set adrift by command of
high Turkish officers influenced by French and British authorities. Within few days 1300 children have been
discharged in Constantinople and many more in Interior.
The
situation demands immediate and comprehensive action upon a large scale as
surviving Armenians while cooperating to their utmost are too depleted and
impoverished to receive back all their own while the opportunity for rendering
mighty humanitarian service has never been surpassed.
We
are straining every nerve to set the new emergency with our 120 American
workers on ground. Eagerly anticipating
arrival 250 additional workers now on way that medical units may be put into
action and orphans cared for.
The
restoration of thes[e] subject peoples began simultaneously with arrival of
Commission throwing unusual responsibility upon our Committee since all parties
expect us to meet the situation adequately.
Unquote
Barton Sims
The Table listing the
Leviathan volunteers follows the Endnotes and Acknowledgements below as an
Addendum
The headings should be
explanatory. To repeat, the Table is a working document. Our hope is that it will open some avenues
for those interested in Եnearthingՠfresh photographic materials reflecting
service to the Armenian remnants. There remains, of course, an enormous task
ahead but at least we hope we have provided a first draft sketch. [Endnote 7]
Endnotes
[Endnote 1] For example Tessa Hofmann and Gerayer
Koutcharian (1992) "Images that horrify and indict": pictorial
documents on the persecution and extermination of Armenians from 1877 to 1922լ
The Armenian Review, 45, 53-184; Armin T. Wegner,
A.M. Samuelli (1996) Armin T. Wegner e gli Armeni in Anatolia, 1915:
immagini e testimonianze = Armin T. Wegner and the Armenians in Anatolia, 1915:
images and testimonies (Milano: Guerini e Associati);Ulrich Klan (2008) ҁrmin
T. Wegner - Bildnis einer Stimme Begleitbuchӊ[Armin T. Wegner - Portrait of a
Voice, a companion book] (Gttingen:WallsteinVerlag); Armin T. Wegner, Andreas Meier, Wolfgang Gust (2011) Die
Austreibung des armenischen Volkes in die Wste: ein Lichtbildvortrag [The
Expulsion of the Armenians into the Desert: a photo report (slide show)]
(Gttingen: WallsteinVerlag, as Compact Disk); A.D. Krikorian and E.L. Taylor
(2011) ҁchieving ever-greater precision in attestation and attribution of
genocide photographsӠin Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjrnlund, Vassilios Meichanetsidis (eds.), The
Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks, Studies on the state sponsored campaign of
extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor, 1912-1922 and its aftermath:
history, law, memory (New York and Athens: Aristide D. Caratzas).
[Endnote 2] See video on our Conscience Films site entitled "History
of the Armenian Orphan Rug (Coolidge Rug) Made for the White House 1925Ӭ a
photo essay, with commentary by Abraham D. Krikorian, and 'scrolling'
type-written "Afterword" on You Tube. The subtitle is ғtory of an
Armenian Rug Made by Armenian Orphans for the White House: preserving authentic
memory of survivors of the Turkish Genocide against the Armenians.Ӽ/span> The YouTube URL
is: http://youtu.be/MkQQEFsXDRg
[Endnote 3] See http://www.groong.org/orig/Probing-the-Photographic-Record.html ҠWitnesses' to
Massacres and Genocide and their Aftermath: Probing the Photographic Record.Ӡ
[Endnote 4] For a
range of valuable information in a single source see William H. Hallճ edited
volume Ғeconstruction in Turkey. As series of reports compiled for the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. 1 Madison Ave. New York City.ӠFor
Private Distribution Only, 1918, 243 pages. This is available as an ebook at https://archive.org/details/reconstructioni00hallgoog
[Endnote 4] Sybil
Milton (1986) Images of the Holocaust ̶Part 1. Holocaust and Genocide Studies
vol. 1 (no.1) 27-61. Part 2. Vol. 1 (no.2) 193-216;Sybil Milton (1989) Armin T.
Wegner: polemicist for Armenian and Jewish right. The Armenian Review vol. 42 (no.4),
17-40; Sybil Milton (1999) Photography as evidence of the Holocaust. History of
Photography 23 (no.4), 303-312; Markon, Genya (1999) The Photo Archives of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. History of Photography vol. 23 (no.4),
341-349;Udo Wallendy (2003) Do photographs prove the NS extermination of the
Jews? In: Germar Rudolf (editor) ҄issecting the Holocaust. The growing critique
of Ԕruthՠand ԍemoryծӠTheses & Dissertations Press, Chicago, pgs. 243- 267.
[Endnote 5] See James
L. Barton (1930) ғtory of Near East Relief (1915-1930), An Interpretationӊ(Macmillan, New York), 479 pages; for Ҕhe American Committee
for Armenian and Syrian ReliefӠspecifically see the entry under that title by
Charles V. Vickrey in The World Court vol. 4 no. 10, Oct.) 1918, 586-589. This is in a special number of the World
Court, vol. IV, no. 16 October 1918 entitled Relief and Reconstruction in the
Near East. See http://books.google.com/books/about/The_World_Court.html?id=QjouAAAAYAAJ
[Endnote 6] Susan K. Blair (ed.), (1989) The Slaughterhouse Province, an American Diplomatճ Report
on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917 (New Rochelle, NY: Aristide D. Caratzas,
Publisher). It is of some interest that Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee who was born in
Turkey, a physician, of missionary parents and had served at Mezereh at the
American Hospital did not confide in Mrs. MacDaniels as to what had been going
on in Mamuret-ul-Aziz. In fact, Mrs. MacDaniels expressed the opinion that Dr.
Parmelee was the least pleasant of the group going out to Harpoot. In fairness,
Dr. Parmelee was a bit of a dour personality but had seen more than her share
of the atrocities committed by Turks and Kurds, going back to her childhood at
Trebizond during the Hamidian massacres. As time went on, Mrs. MacDaniels and
Dr. Parmelee seem to have come to an accommodation and got along well.]
[Endnote 7] We sometimes
joke that we are no longer ҳpring chickensӠand must move on full forward on ԧetting
some of our work outՠso others can benefit from what we have done.
[Endnote 8] We have received
the following email correcting the name for “Anna H. Fowle” to “Anne E. Fowle”.
With verification, we’re adding this Endnote to correct the record.
From: Barbara
Taylor
Subject: Website
Date: October
24, 2023 at 3:35:55 PM PDT
To: Groong
My grandparents were on the ship Leviathan that
sailed from Hoboken, NJ on Feb 15, 1919.
My grandmother was Anne Eliza (Smith) Fowle (her name is incorrectly
listed as Anne H. Fowle). My
grandfather was her husband, Theodore Wilson Fowle. His brother Wilson Farnsworth Fowle also
sailed with them. Their brother Luther
Richardson Fowle was the long time treasurer of the American Board for Near
East Relief; their brother Charles Fowle worked in the New York office of the
ACRNE at the time.
Anne and Ted married August 1918. She was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College
majoring in Physics. He was a graduate
of Williams College and the University of Michigan majoring in Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering. I am in the
process of transcribing their letters from 1919 to 1921 when they were in
Turkey. Ted was born in Turkey to
American missionary parents (James Luther Fowle and Caroline Palmer Farnsworth)
and his grandparents (Wilson Amos Farnsworth and Caroline Elizabeth Palmer) had
been missionaries there for 50 years, retiring in 1902.
Barbara
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank the United
States National Archives for all their help and considerations while working on
site both at the College Park, Maryland and at downtown Washington, D.C.
facilities. We acknowledge the Oberlin College Archives for allowing us to work
there and to study the Laurence H. and Frances C. MacDaniels materials. Likewise, we thank the Archives at the
University of California Berkeley, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. We
acknowledge help from Union Theological Seminary, Burke Library, Columbia
University Libraries and Hoover Institution, Stanford University Archives and
special collections. We owe our sincere thanks also to Mrs. Ellen MacDaniels
Speers who has been a great help and source of encouragement to us, especially
with her parents letters, photographs etc.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Hoboken, N.J.
February 14, 1919
Memorandum for:
Executive
officer, U. S. S. LEVIATHAN.
1. Herewith find LIST OF PASSENGERS for whom
reservations are requested on your vessel scheduled to sail February 16, 1919.
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Hopkins |
Jay P. |
Colonel, C. A. C. |
|
|
|
Chastand |
Emanuel |
Civilian,
Director of School for the Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers |
|
|
|
D'Aran |
Henriette |
Civilian |
Y.W.C.A. |
|
|
Bockum |
Clara |
" |
" |
|
|
Morrison |
Ethel |
" |
" |
|
|
Andrews |
Florence |
" |
" |
|
|
Summers |
Nelle |
" |
" |
|
|
Thompson |
Jennie |
" |
" |
|
|
Benson |
Marion B. (Mrs.) |
Civilian |
Jewish Welfare Board |
|
|
Barnett |
Ray |
" |
" |
|
|
Perlman |
Cyrilla |
" |
" |
|
|
Goodman |
Lillian |
" |
" |
|
|
Levy |
Esther |
" |
" |
|
|
Aaronson |
Etta |
" |
" |
|
|
Eisenberg |
Jennie |
Civilian |
Jewish Welfare Board |
|
|
Burg |
Sadie |
" |
" |
|
|
Wolfson |
Rosa |
" |
" |
|
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Ahlers |
Caroline A. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Ahlers, Caroline C. (Miss), of
Dayton, Ohio, sailed on the "Leviathan," February 16, 1919 and
served at Samsoun (November, 1919) and at Constantinople (June, 1920) where
she did outstanding work in the Trachoma Hospital. She returned to the United States in May
1922, and is now Assistant Superintendent of Nurses at the Broad Street
Hospital, 129 Broad Street, New York City. |
|
Allen |
Edith R. |
" |
" |
See Todd |
R. seems to be incorrect in the Passenger
List |
Anthony |
A. Gertrude |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Balise |
Elma Cakefair Guest |
" |
" |
- (Mrs. Peter Balise), of New
Haven, Connecticut sailed on February 16, 1919. The end of the year found her in Malatia
from which she was transferred to Aleppo.
She returned June 18, 1920, and is now living at Hadley, Massachusetts
(P. O. Box 444), attending to her duties as a housewife. |
|
Balph |
James M. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Barker |
H. Constance |
" |
" |
" |
Listed in Barton |
Barnum |
Harry H. |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Berg |
Matilda |
" |
" |
" |
Middle initial L. in Barton |
Bill |
Pauline |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Willimantic,
Connecticut, sailed on February 16, 1919, to teach and to manage a Near East
Relief salesroom. She was at Port
Said, November 29, 1919, later at Tripoli, and returned on May 23, 1920. She is now at the Sea View Hospital, Staten
Island, New York City as Director of Occupational Therapy. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Blackman |
Blanche S. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Blackman, Blanche A. (Miss),
of New York, sailed on February 16, 1919.
She started the nurses' training school at Marsovan, and came home
April 22, 1920. She is now Superintendent
of Nurses at the Broad Street Hospital, 129 Broad Street, New York City. |
Middle initial A. in Barton |
Bliss |
Amy A. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Baldwinsville New
York, started overseas on February 16, 1919.
She was appointed to Harput where she did hospital work. Returning, she left Constantinople on May
15, 1920 and reached America June 21, 1920. |
|
Boberg |
Stanley G. |
|
|
Signed on from Camp Lee,
Virginia as a laboratory assistant.
His appointment took him to Marsovan, whence he returned April 22,
1920. He is now a bank official in
Chicago, his address being 8035 Eberhart Avenue. |
|
Bond |
Louise |
" |
" |
Bond, S. M. Louise (Miss),
registering from New Haven, Connecticut, joined Near East Relief in February
1919. She was valuable in Kars in the
Caucasus. When released in June 1920,
she went to England. She is now in
America, living at Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. |
|
Bradley |
Sabra C. |
" |
" |
Bradley, Sabra Claire (Miss),
of Fulton, Missouri, sailed with the "Leviathan" party of February
16, 1919 and was assigned to Samsoun.
Later work took her to Constantinople and Ismid. She reached home September 11, 1921. She is now teaching at Tucson, Arizona, her
address being P. O. Box 866. |
|
Bristol |
Elsey L. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Brown |
Anna E. |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Brown |
Mary M. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Burt |
Amy A. |
" |
" |
" |
Listed in Barton as Mrs. Amy Anthony Burt |
Bury |
Elizabeth A. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of North Coventry,
Connecticut enlisted with Near East Relief as a nurse and sailed on February
16, 1919. She served at Erivan and Harput,
remaining at the latter difficult post (where at one time she was a sufferer
from typhus) until April 30, 1922, when she went to Constantinople. She arrived in America April 28, 1923, and
be addressed at 168 Chaplin Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. |
|
Carr |
Gladys |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Patterson, Gladys M. Carr –
(Dr.; Mrs. William B. Patterson), of Massachusetts went as Dr. Carr on the
"Leviathan" with the medical force as roentgenologist. She covered the entire field installing,
supervising, and teaching X-Ray work in the various hospitals. She returned November 28, 1919. Dr. Carr - Patterson may be addressed 327
West 78th Street, New York City. |
Barton says now Mrs. William B. Patterson |
Carruth |
Clara L. |
Civilian |
" |
(Miss), of Bloomfield, New
Jersey, started for Erivan with the "Leviathan" party. Her work was secretarial. She came home May 17, 1920 and is now
acting as assistant in the Department of Religious Education at Yale
University. Her address is 90 York
Square, New Haven, Connecticut. |
Barton says now Mrs. O. G. Reuman |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Carter |
Isabel |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Carter, Isabel Hopestill
(Miss), of East Orange, New Jersey, interested in industrial work, started
for Constantinople on February 16, 1919, with the Wellesley Unit. She severed her connection with Near East
Relief on July 17, 1920. At the moment
she is in Yarmouth, Maine reading mathematics and writing. |
Not listed in Barton |
Chamberlain |
Louise H. |
" |
" |
Isaac, Louise H. Chamberlain
— (Mrs. Emerson Isaac) of Cleveland, Ohio, sailed on February 16, 1919. She was sent to Erivan on a hospital
assignment. There she met Emerson Isaac,
whom she married after her return to America which was in January 1920. Mrs. Isaac's present address is 925 East
Morton Street, New Castle, PA. |
" |
Clark |
Alice K. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Evanston,
Illinois, went with the "Leviathan" party and taught at
Hadjin. During the more than six
months' siege of the town [,] the American compound was captured by the Turks
but the diplomacy of the Near East Relief people protected the 300 orphans
from the attackers. For several days
the Near East Relief personnel and several missionaries were forced to live
in a closet under the stairs. When the
Turks recaptured the buildings on June 13, the inmates were taken to a
Turkish camp and held for two days before being sent on to Caesarea. Miss [Edith] Cold and Miss [Mary] Super
shared the exciting experiences. Miss
Clark left Constantinople for the U.S.A. July 10, 1920 and is now living at
1217 Forest Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. |
Barton lists as Alice Clark |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Clements |
Colin C. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
ɠof New York, a member of the
"Leviathan" party, looked after educational work in Urfa. He prepared a textbook for use in orphanage
schools. In May 1920, he left Beirut
for Paris. He is now living in Boston
at 118 Mt. Vernon Street. His
occupation being that of dramatist and author. |
|
Cold |
Edith |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Oberlin, Ohio,
went out on February 16, 1919, and was appointed to Hadjin. With Miss Alice Clark and Miss [Mary] Super
she endured the siege of the town being fired on by the Turks when she
carried a white flag into the compound of the orphanage. With the others she made her way to Talas
and on to Constantinople |
|
Cook |
Elinor M. |
" |
" |
McDowell, E. W. (Mrs.) served
in the Urumia District at Tabriz and at Baghdad. |
Barton says now Mrs. Robert
H. McDowell. Her husband was McDowell,
E. W. (Dr., served in Bagdad as Near East Relief Director. In the autumn of 1922 he went to
Constantinople with the Nestorian Mission.
In the early summer of 1923 he reached New York. He and Mrs. McDowell may be addressed care
Presbyterian Board of Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. |
Cooley |
Margaret |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Berkeley, Calif.,
did relief work at Baku during 1919.
Her address is 2241 Glen Avenue, Berkeley, California. |
Not listed in Barton |
Cooper |
Stella I. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
" |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Corning |
Sarah (Br) |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Hanover, New Hampshire,
sailed on February 16, 1919. She was
billeted to Erivan for hospital service.
Stationed at Marsovan Miss Corning did a [sic] distinguished
humanitarian work. She was in Smyrna
in October after the disaster and from there went to Greece in January of
1923. In September she was in Oropos
and reached America in December 1923, after an absence of nearly five
years. She is now visiting her friends
and resting. Her address being
Chegoggin, Yarmouth Country, Nova Scotia. |
|
Coughlin |
Mary E. |
" |
" |
Peterson, Mary E. Coughlin (Mrs. Axel S.
Peterson), of Massachusetts, as Miss Coughlin, joined the nursing personnel
on the "Leviathan" and was sent to Adana. There she was in charge of the clinic in
the orphanage through the winter of 1919-1920. In the Spring she went to the island of
Proti and was transferred to the Red Cross (May 18, 1920), which took over
the care of the Russian refugees on that island. Mrs. Peterson is now living at 1200 South
Carlisle Street, Philadelphia, Pa. |
Barton says now Mrs. Axel S. Peterson |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Curry |
Gladys A. (Br) |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Curry, Gladys Alma (Miss), went
to Aintab and Beirut, sailing with the "Leviathan" party. She returned to America in early 1920, but
soon went overseas again and in 1922 was a volunteer with Near East Relief in
Constantinople. Her permanent address
on the side of the water is care U.S. Mortgage & Trust Co., Madison
Avenue and 74th Street, New York City. |
Barton lists as Gladys Curry |
Dando |
Anna |
" |
" |
Parmelee, Anna Dando - Mrs.
H. C., of Frostburgh, Md., as Miss Dando, joined the "Leviathan"
party of February 16, 1919. She was
assigned to Mardin, August 1919, and in October 1919 was transferred to Diarbekir
where she aided in opening the hospital.
On July 9, 1920, she reached home once more. Mrs. Parmelee is now living in Sanford,
Florida (Route A). |
Barton says now Mrs. H. Parmelee |
Dasey |
Miriam |
" |
" |
Dasey, Miriam K. (Miss), of New Haven, Conn.,
started for Constantinople on February 16, 1919. She worked at Constantinople as Secretary
to the Medical Division, and at Derindje in charge of medical supplies and
returned to America, October 19, 1920.
She is now Registrar of the School of Medicine of Yale University and
may be addressed, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven,
Con. |
Barton lists as Miriam K. Dasey |
Daum |
W. Fletcher |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Daum |
Sue May |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Mrs. W. Fletcher |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Davidson |
Mildred E. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Ramsey, Nj. sailed
for the Derindje station on February 16, 1919. She did hospital work and returned June 12,
1920. She is now teaching in the High
School in Hackensack, N.J., her home address being Ramsey, N.J. |
|
Dixon |
Margaret E. |
" |
" |
Brown, Margaret E. Dixon –
(Mrs. Wendell D. Brown), of Hackensack, New Jersey, left this side on
February 16, 1919, and was appointed to Sivas as a stenographer. She married Wendell W. Brown, returned to
this country, and is now living as given at the right. |
Her husband was Brown,
Wendell W., of Yonkers, New York, sailed April 23, 1919, and served at Oulou
Kishla. He married Margaret E. Dixon
at Constantinople on January 15, 1920, and they returned to this country
February 22, 1920. He is now farming
at Boonton, New Jersey and may be addressed, R. F. D. 1. |
Doherty [read Dougherty?] |
Minnie E. |
" |
" |
Dougherty, Minnie E. (Miss),
sailed on February 16, 1919. She was assigned
to Marash as a teacher in the industrial department. She was one of the staff caught in the Near
East orphanage during the siege of the town when Armenians and French were
attacked by Turks for some three or four weeks. She returned on May 24, 1920, and is now at
her home, 137 Suffolk Street, Holyoke, Mass. |
Barton lists as Minnie E. Dougherty |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Downer |
Lilla De Mar |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Montclair, N.J.
crossed with the "Leviathan" party and was assigned to Harput. There she established a school for
subnormal children, the first of its kind in Turkey. Owing to serious eye trouble Miss Downer
was obliged to return to America in September 1920. She is now living in Boston. She may be addressed care Near East Relief,
151 Fifth Avenue, New York City. |
|
Dudley |
Stowell B. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr.), of Weiser, Idaho, was
one of the "Leviathan" party.
Registered as medical director his assignment took him to Mardin where
he did a difficult and valuable piece of work in rehabilitating an old hospital. In addition to his work as a physician Dr.
Dudley was director of the Mardin Unit, which included industrial work,
agriculture, road building and the general care and employment of the orphans
and refugees. When Mardin was
organized Dr. Dudley went to Beirut (December 13, 1919) whence he returned to
the United States, April 190, 1920. He
is now at Caldwell, Idaho, occupied as a Physical Director. |
Barton lists as Dr. Stowell Dudley |
Dunaway |
John A. |
Civilian |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of New Bloomfield, Pa., started for Aleppo on February 16, 1919, to do publicity and relief work. He returned to America March 23, 1920. After marrying Miss Rose Shayeb, he went overseas again with his wife. Upon their return to the United States they were attached to National Headquarters for over a year. At present Mr. Dunaway is in Persia with the Millspaugh Financial Commission. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Easton |
Blanche S. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
|
Barton says now Mrs. Joseph W. Beach |
Eckert |
Elizabeth A. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Bolton, Mass.,
crossed on February 16, 1919, to do secretarial and relief work in the Beirut
Area. She returned on September 12,
1920. She is now at Hsiku, Tientsin,
China, where she may be addressed, care Mr. Robert Chandler, American Board
of Missions. |
|
Eddy |
Sylvia G. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Eddy, Silvia T. (Miss), of
Simsbury, Conn., sailed June 24, 1919, [sic] to do hospital work. Her assignment was Mardin. She was in Aintab during the siege and in
Beirut in August of 1920 leaving Beirut on September 30 for America, which
she reached November 12, 1921. She is
now living in Simsbury, Conn., and doing nursing. |
She apparently missed taking the
"Leviathan" |
Eldred |
Irene R. |
" |
" |
Eldred, Irene (Miss), who signed on from Camp
Devens, Ayer, Mass., registered for social work and crossed with the
"Leviathan" party. She was
sent to Tarsus where Near East Relief then had a relief station and orphanage. She served later at Adana. July 10, 1920 was the date of her departure
from Constantinople for home. She is
now Educational Secretary for the W.Y.C.A., her address being 37 1/2 Beacon
Street, Boston, Mass. |
Barton lists as Irene Eldred |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Elliott |
Mabel E. |
M.D. |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Dr.), of Benton Harbor,
Michigan, steamed on February 16, 1919.
She headed the Marash Unit, May 17, 1919. On January 21, 1920, the Turks broke loose
in the town. Dr. Elliott evacuated the
hospital on the night of February 10.
She went out with the French, two nurses, a worker, one Y.M.C.A. man,
Mr. [Rev. Charles F. H.] Crathern, and 5,000 refugees, half of whom died from
exposure to cold and snow before the end of the three days' march. On May 23, 1920, Dr. Elliott returned to
America. Going back five months later
under an arrangement between Near East Relief and the American Women's
Hospitals, Dr. Elliott in January 1921 established at Ismid an up-to-date
hospital with attached clinics, nurses' training classes and a soup kitchen. At the beginning of September 1921, she
went to the Caucasus on a medical inspection trip. Returning to Ismid she transferred her
personal work in October 1921, to the Caucasus. Immediately after the Smyrna disaster
(September, 1922) she was send to Mitylene to aid the refugees who manage to
reach that island. In November 1922,
she was made Medical Director of Near East Relief in Greece, establishing
seven Near East Relief hospitals and many clinics in various parts of Greece
and the islands. She was appointed by
the Greek government to carry on a quarantine station on Macronissi Island
for the refugees from Anatolia. Greece
has decorated Dr. Elliott with the silver cross |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Elliott (continued) |
Mabel E. |
M.D. |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
of St. George, the gold cross
of St. George, and the Greek Croix de Guerre.
She returned to America, October 1, 1923. Since then she has been speaking for Near
East Relief in many states. She may be
addressed care Near East Relief, 151 Fifth Avenue, New York City. |
|
Emrich |
Richard S. M. |
Civilian |
" |
Not listed |
|
Emrich |
Mrs. Richard S. M. |
" |
" |
" |
Listed in Barton as Mrs. R.S. Emrich (Jeanette
W.[allace] [Emrich] |
Emrich |
Richard S. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton says Richard Stanley
Emrich |
Emrich |
Wallace C. |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in
Barton |
Emrich |
Duncan B. M. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Everett |
Bernice J. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Franklin, New York,
sailed on February 16, 1919, with the Wellesley Unit. In September 1920, she was the head of the
Personnel House in Constantinople, but her service was chiefly as director of
the Broussa Unit in the town where the Wellesley Fund was expended. During the three years of her connection
with Broussa [,] Miss Everett developed the schools, expanded the industrial
activities, aided the refugees driven from their homes by the Nationalist
uprisings, trained 1,300 orphans, and aided in the transfer of several
hundreds to the Near East Relief orphanage in Bardizag. She was decorated by the Greek Red Cross in
1921. In June,
1920 she was in Bulgaria for a short time.
March 13, 1922, saw her started from Constantinople for America. She is now living at 76 Hoyle Street,
Norwood, Mass., doing some class teaching.
|
Not listed in Barton |
Farrington |
Mabel |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Hahn, Mabel Farrington –
(Mrs. L. H. Hahn (sic), of Claremont, Calif., sailed on February 16,
1919. She served at Kars and
Alexandropol (January, 1920) and returned to America in the summer of 1920. She is now Mrs. J. H. Hahn and is living at
El Monte, Calif. |
Barton says now Mrs. L. G. Hahn |
Fees |
Ruby C. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Barton says now Mrs. R. C. McGibbon |
Fenenga |
Agnes |
" |
" |
Ҽo:p> |
Listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Fischer |
Caroline |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Fisher, Caroline (Mrs. Paul
B. Fisher), went out to Broussa at the same time as her husband for
educational service. She came home in
October 1919. |
Not listed in Barton |
Fischer |
Paul B. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>went to Broussa as an administrator, sailing February 16, 1919, and returned to America July 15, 1920. He may be addressed 416 North Main Street, Wheaton, Ill. |
|
Fisher |
Faye |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Flynn |
Marcella K. |
" |
" |
Rice, Marcella Katherine
Flynn – (Mrs.), of Pennsylvania, as Miss Flynn, was another member of the
nursing personnel of the "Leviathan". She was stationed at Sivas in charge of the
operating room at the hospital. She
returned to the States June 29, 1920, and now, as Mrs. Rice, is living at
2424 W. Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia. |
|
Foreman |
Lucille |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Lucile |
Fowle |
Anna H. [Endnote 8] |
" |
" |
Ҽo:p> |
Not listed in Barton |
Fowle |
Theodore W. |
" |
" |
Ҽo:p> |
Listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Fowle |
Wilson F. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
ɼspan class=GramE>of Bethlehem, Pa., crossed in the "Leviathan" February 16, 1919, and suffered an accident near Derindje before taking up his assignment at Oulou Kishla. In May, 1920 he underwent an operation in Constantinople and in July went as supercargo on a boat for Mersine laiden with flour for Adana. He remained with the Adana Unit during the summer and autumn, reaching Constantinople in early November 1920. Released from Near East Relief, he is at present with the Standard Oil in Beirut. |
|
Frank |
Sadie A. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Nashville, Tenn.,
signed with Near East Relief from Plattsburg, N.Y. She sailed on February 16, 1919, and was
assigned to do relief at Akhalkalaki.
She reached the U.S. April 29, 1920.
She is now a journalist and is living at 327 West 75th Street, New
York City. |
|
French |
Frances E. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as F. Elma |
Fridy |
Thomas A. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>who signed on from the Medical Department, Base Hospital, Camp Lee, Va., sailed on the "Leviathan." He served in Erivan for over a year, left Batoum homeward bound on May 3, 1920, and reached the States August 20, 1920. He may be addressed Brookville, Fla. |
|
Frost |
Elizabeth |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Fuller |
Wilfred J. |
[Dr] |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Fuller, Wilfred Joy (D.D.S)
of Somerville, Mass., went across on February 16, 1919, with a roving
commission. During his service, which
ended April 3, 1920, he visited every station. He is now practicing as a physician and
dentist at 134 College Avenue, Somerville, Mass. |
Barton lists as Dr. Wilfred J. Fuller |
Gallant |
Clara L. (Br) |
Civilian |
" |
(Miss), of Arlington, Mass.
went over on February 16, 1919, and did hospital work in Aleppo. For some time she ran a dispensary for
refugees in the heart of the city. |
|
Gannaway |
C. R. |
[M.D.?] |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Dr. Charles Gannaway |
Gannaway |
Ruby R. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Mrs. Charles R. Gannaway |
Gittings |
Ina E. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Gittings, Ina E. (Miss), of
Nebraska and New York, shipped on the "Leviathan" on February 16,
1919. She was sent to Tarsus and
Adana. She returned June 25, 1920. At present she is a professor and may be
addressed at University Station, Tucson, Arizona. |
|
Graham |
Eunice B. |
" |
" |
Not listed in Team Work |
Barton says now Mrs. F. E. Skinner |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Greene |
Esther
|
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Greene, Esther F. (Miss), of
Providence, R.I. joined the "Leviathan" party and went to Malatia
with the Smith Unit which administered there a home for Defectives, an Armenian
orphanage and an Industrial Department.
While a member of the Harpoot Unit Miss Greene was robbed by
bandits. She was in Constantinople in
June 1920, acting as Chairman of the Committed for Industrial Work and
General Relief, and a year later started for home. She is now General Secretary of the Rhode
Island Society for Mental Hygiene, her office being at 118 North Main Street,
Providence, R.I. |
Barton lists as Ester F.
Greene |
Greene |
Olive |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Guest |
Elma |
" |
" |
Balise, Elma Cakefair Guest –
(Mrs. Peter Balise), of New Haven, Connecticut, sailed on February 16,
1919. The end of the year found her in
Malatia from which she was transferred to Aleppo. She returned June 18, 1920 and is now
living at Hadley, Massachusetts (P.O. Box 444) attending to her duties as a
housewife. |
Barton says now Mrs. Peter Balise |
Hall |
Robert L. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Harman |
Byron M. |
M.D. |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
ɨDr.), of New Jersey, crossed
with the "Leviathan" party February 16, 1919 and was billeted to
the Caucasus. There he served as
physician at Tiflis, Shusha and Karaklis, at the latter place meeting his
future wife Mrs. Willie Maie Hunter.
They were married in May 1920, and returned by way of France to
America which they reached July 9, 1920.
Dr. Harman is now Superintendent of the Essex Mountain Sanitarium,
Verona, N.J. |
Harman, Willie Maye Hunter –
(Mrs. B. M. Harman), of Picayune, Miss., left on Nov. 5, 1919, for hospital
Karaklis. Married to Dr. Harman she
now lists herself as "housewife."
[For address see column to the left.] |
Harris |
Elizabeth |
Civilian |
" |
(Miss), of Albany, N.Y.,
sailed on the "Leviathan" February 16, 1919, and did orphan
investigation during April and May, 1919 at Marash whence she was transferred
to Aintab. After the siege began in April 1920 she and several others managed to reach Aleppo
under military escort, on April 23.
She reached America July 23, 1920.
Miss Harris is now studying in Boston, Mass., her address being 87 St.
Stephen Street. |
|
Harvey |
Florence |
" |
" |
(Miss.), left America with
the "Leviathan" party and was assigned to Smyrna to do relief and
industrial work. She arrived in
Constantinople from Smyrna April 2, 1920, and took charge of the Acorne
Shop. She severed her connection with
Near East Relief in June 1920. She may
be addressed at Orono, Maine. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Headlee |
Frances K. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Headlee, Frances King (Mrs.),
of Spokane, Wash., sailed on February 16, 1919, and did administrative work
in Smyrna. In March 1920 she was
transferred to Y.M.C.A. at Athens. On
December 4, 1920, she returned to the United States. Mrs. Headlee is now living at Laguna Beach,
Calif., where she Curator of the Art Gallery and art editor of "Laguna
Life." |
|
Heizer |
Beatrice |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Heizer |
Ida W. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton says Ida Wright Heizer (Mrs. O. S.
Heizer) |
Heizer |
Vivian |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Henry |
Ruth W. |
" |
" |
(Miss), went with the Smith
Unit of workers supported by Smith College on the "Leviathan" on
February 16, 1919. She was assigned to
Erivan and worked at Etchmiadzin. June
1920 found her Director of the Unit at Adana where she was under fire in the
summer of 1920 and on January 1, 1921 she left
Constantinople on her return to the States which she reached on the last day
of the month. She is now teaching in
Amherst, Mass., her former home. |
|
Hewitt |
Candace |
" |
" |
(Miss), of New York City,
left for Konia on February 16, 1919.
She returned March 18, 1920, and may be addressed 127 East 21st
Street, New York City. |
|
Higdon |
Aimee V. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Barton says now Mrs. John C.
Higdon |
Higdon |
John C. |
" |
" |
" |
Listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Hill |
Justina H. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Spartanburg, S.C.,
classed as a bacteriologist, went with the "Leviathan" party. She was assigned to Harpoot. She returned to America June 18, 1920 and
is now engaged in research work in Baltimore, Md. Her address is 1728 St. Paul Street. |
|
Hinson |
Orrie A. |
" |
" |
Hinson, Orrie A. (Mrs. W. J.
Hinson), of Swainsboro, Ga., went with the "Leviathan" party. She did secretarial work in Constantinople
and came back June 12, 1920. She is
now manager of the Commercial Department and Secretary to an attorney in
Swainsboro, Ga. |
Barton says Mrs. Orrie A. Hinson |
Hoffman |
Edith V. |
" |
" |
Erazian, Edith Hoffman –
(Mrs.), of Altoona, Pa., went overseas on February 16, 1919, to do hospital
work in the Caucasus. She served in Erivan
and Etchmiadzin and returned to the United Stated in June 1920. Her address is 729 Second Avenue, Juanita
Station, Altoona, Pa. |
Barton says now Mrs. Edith H. Erazian |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Holmes |
Mary C. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of New York City,
started overseas on February 16, 1919, and was detailed to Urfa. Her experiences, told in her book,
"Between the Lines,” included the directorship of a crowded orphanage
and its management throughout the siege of the town when the Turks and French
fought fiercely, and the Near East Relief people were cut off from supplies
and food. In 1921 she moved the
children to Syria. In July 1922, she
reached America. Miss Holmes received
the Croix de Guerre with palm in acknowledgement of her aid to the French in
Urfa. At the moment she is living in
New York City (2064 Harrison Avenue, the Bronx), and giving addresses for
Near East Relief. |
Barton lists as Mary Caroline
Holmes |
Holt |
Sophia S. |
" |
" |
Holt, Sophie S. (Miss), of
Somerville, Mass., a former A.B.C.F.M. Missionary, sailed on the
"Leviathan" and went to Ismid where she started an orphanage which
grew under her care for three years.
She returned to America June 16, 1922, and is now attached to the Near
East Relief Wisconsin Office, 930 Caswell Block, Milwaukee, Wis. |
|
Hubbard |
Mary |
" |
" |
(Miss), of White Plains, New
York, went over with the "Leviathan" party of February 16, 1919,
and was assigned to Sivas. She worked
at Caesarea. She left Constantinople
for home by way of Marseilles on July 28, 1920. She may be addressed 29 Lafayette Street,
White Plains, N.Y. |
|
Hulburt |
Winifred |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Huntington |
Frances |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Le Bouvier, Frances Huntington
– (Mrs. Louis Le Bouvier), of Connecticut, crossed on the
"Leviathan" to do hospital work in Konia. She married Captain Le Bouvier, March 16,
1920, and is now living in Constantinople, occasionally doing special pieces
of work for Near East Relief. |
Barton lists as le Bouvier |
Husch |
Sylvester B. |
M.D. |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>went over on the "Leviathan" with the medical personnel to do work in the various Near East Relief areas. His present address 67 West 12th Street, New York City. |
Barton lists as Dr. Sylvester
Husch |
James |
Mildred |
Civilian |
" |
Not listed in Team Work |
Listed in Barton |
Jameson |
Elsie |
" |
" |
(Miss), of New York City, was
a member of the "Leviathan" party and was assigned to the Beirut Area
to do work in nursing and hygiene. She
served at Aintab. At present she is a
dietitian, her address being 37 East 76th Street, New York City. |
|
Janson |
Leah M. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
went overseas February 16, 1919. She
served at Constantinople and Proti and came home June 12, 1920. She is now in the N.N.C. [Navy Nurse Corps]
attached to the U.S.N. Hospital at Mare Island, Calif. |
|
Jarrett |
Margaret C. (Br) |
" |
" |
Not listed in Team Work |
Listed in Barton |
Jenks |
Agnes |
" |
" |
Not listed in Team Work |
Barton lists as Mrs. Barton
P. Jenks |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Kelsey |
Lincoln D. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
ɠof Springfield, Mass. went over
on February 16, 1919, and aided in the establishment of agricultural
activities Marsovan. He returned April
22, 1920 and is now a Farm Bureau Manager with an address at 93 Court House,
Albany, N.Y. |
|
Kelsey |
Alice G. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Kelsey, Alice Geer – (Mrs.
Lincoln D. Kelsey), crossed as above to do relief work at Marsovan. Mrs. Kelsey is now keeping house for her
husband and her two small children at the above address. |
Barton lists as Alice Geer Kelsey (Mrs.
Lincoln D.) |
Kerr |
Stanley E. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Kershner |
Dora |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Kifer |
Mary B. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
King |
Rachel |
" |
" |
Martin, Rachel King – (Mrs.
Edward F. Martin), of New York City went across with the
"Leviathan" party starting from New York February 16, 1919. Her work was sanitary, hygienic and nursing
in Caesarea. A year after her arrival
she started for America but found conditions so disturbed as to make
traveling dangerous so she went back to her post. In May 1921 she was in Constantinople
filling a three months' contract.
October saw her in America where she married Edward F. Martin and
returned with him to the Near East. ɠWhile Mr. Martin was stationed in the
Caucasus Mrs. Martin ran the Personnel House for a while and did some
nursing. She may be addressed care
Rev. J. S. King, Little Britain, Orange Co., N. Y. |
Edward F. Martin of
Wisconsin, signed with Near East Relief in Paris. In July 1919, he was assigned to the Supply
Base at Oulou Kishla where he arrived in August. Later he went to Caesarea where he took
charge of the Boys' Industrial School.
In May 1921 he was connected with the Transportation Department in
Constantinople and in September returned to America where he married Miss
Rachel King, whose acquaintance he had made in Caesarea. Together they returned in December of the
same year, Mr. Martin taking the post of Director of the Warehouses at
Derindje. In June 1923 he closed them,
transferring the remaining supplies to Ortakeuy. That accomplished the Martins went to Alexandropol
where Mr. Martin was Superintendent of Transportation. Released in November 1923, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin reached America in January 1924.
They may be addressed care Rev. J. S. King, Little Britain, Orange
Co., N.Y. |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Knox |
Blanche |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Germantown, Pa.,
went across with the "Leviathan" party to do hospital work. She served Erivan. On September 5, 1920 she reached America
and is now teaching in the Training School for Nurses with the Germantown
Hospital, East Penn Street, Germantown, Philadelphia. |
|
Knox |
Gertrude E. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Providence, R.I.,
with the "Leviathan" party and worked in Samsoun. She served there until September 1920, and
then went to Constantinople to teach in the College for Girls. She came home September 11, 1921, and may
be addressed 26 Jenckes Street, Providence, R.I. |
Barton says now Mrs. Wells |
Lambert |
Robert A. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr.), of New York City secured
the first party of medical personnel at Near East Relief and sailed with them
on the "Leviathan" (February 16, 1919) as Laboratory Director with
Dr. George L. Richards. Taking along
supplies that had preceded the party and then unloaded at Derindje, a
complete hospital unit was started into the interior of Turkey. The main supply of material was left at
Adana and Dr. Lambert went on to Aleppo where he was chief laboratory worker
and Medical Director. Later he became
director of the district North Syria with stations Alexandretta, Aintab,
Marash, Urfa, Diarbekir and Mardin. He
reached the United States September 1, 1920.
He is now in So Paulo, Brazil, at the Instituto Anatomo-Pathologico de
Falcultade de Medicina e Cirurgia. |
Barton lists as Dr. Robert A. Lambert |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Larson |
Pearl G. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Mrs.), of Chicago, Ill.,
crossed on the "Leviathan" and went to the Harpoot district. In January 1920 she went to Malatia where
she cleaned and clothed several hundred refugees in addition to her taxing
hospital work. She returned September
5, 1920, and is now doing field work for Near East Relief in
Pennsylvania. Address Near East
Relief, Broad and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Pa..
|
Barton says now Mrs. David A. McKee |
Law |
Louise M. |
" |
" |
Law, Mary Louise (Miss), of
Staten Island, N.Y., one of the "Leviathan" passengers became one of
the Urfa Unit serving during the siege and later was the matron of the Near
East Relief orphanage at Tripoli.
Returning in June 1921, she went back in October the same year and
served in Aintab and Sidon. She was
transferred to the Presbyterian Board of Missions with which she is still
affiliated. Address in its care 156
Fifth Avenue, New York City. |
Barton lists as Mary Louise Law |
Lawrence |
Alfred A. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Lawrence |
Arthur L. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Lawrence |
Galeb [read Caleb] W. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Prof. Caleb W. Lawrence |
Lawrence |
Edward W. (11 yrs.) |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Lawrence |
Helen |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Lawrence |
Henry K. (6 yrs.) |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Lawrence |
Ralph K. (3 yrs.) |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Locke |
Ethel M. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Ethel M. Lecke (now Mrs. W.
A. Stoltzfus) |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Lightbody |
Elsbeth M. (Br) |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Lightbody, Elspeth M. (Miss),
of New York City, steamed on February 16, 1919. She was assigned to Kars for nursing
work. She is now acting as Assistant
Directress of Nurses in the State Hospital, Scranton, Pa. |
Barton lists as Elspeth Lightbody |
Loughbridge |
Stella N. |
" |
" |
Loughridge, Stella N. (Miss),
of Nebraska and New York City went with the "Leviathan" party and
was assigned to Talas and Caesarea.
She became Director of Orphanages in the Caesarea District and later
served temporarily at Sivas. In the
course of much traveling in the interior Miss Loughridge had experiences with
bandits. She aided in bringing out
many orphans at the time of the deportations.
Before returning to America (which she reached August 20, 1923) she
was established at the Girls' Orphanage at Juniyeh. Miss Loughridge is now in Los Angeles,
Calif. (4611 Welch Place), resting and preparing to return to Turkey. |
Barton lists as Loughridge |
Mack |
Margaret L. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Rockland, Co.,
N.Y., joined the nursing personnel on the "Leviathan" and went to
the Caucasus where she served at Erivan and Tiflis and in Shusha during the
hostilities. In October 1919, she was
in Batoum in charge of 6,000 refugees, working with only native helpers. She came back February 16, 1920 and is now
doing relief work in Hillburn, Rockland Co., N.Y. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
MacDaniels |
Laurence H. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
MacDaniels, Laurence H., of
Dorchester, Mass., went with the "Leviathan" party and was booked
to establish the agricultural work at Harpoot. He returned to this country July 15, 1920,
is now on the teaching staff of Cornell University and is living at 422
Chestnut Street, Ithaca, N.Y. |
|
MacDaniels |
Frances C. |
" |
" |
(Mrs. Laurence H. MacDaniels)
sailed at the same time. She did
clerical work at Harpoot. See above. |
|
MacIntosh |
Mabel D. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
MacLean |
Christina M. (Br) |
" |
" |
Ҽo:p> |
Barton lists as Christine MacLean |
Magee |
James R. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of Pennsylvania, joined the relief workers of the "Leviathan" party and went to the Beirut Area. His duties were performed at Shuf and he returned to the United States May 16, 1920. He is now an Internal Revenue Agent at Denver, Colo., 203 Custom House. |
|
Marden |
Etta D. |
" |
" |
Not listed in
Team Work |
Not listed in Barton |
Marvin |
Henry M. |
M.D. |
" |
Marvin, Harold M. (Dr.), of
Florida, joined Near East Relief from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in
Boston, being listed among the medical personnel that went over on the
"Leviathan." He was assigned
to the Caucasus and ministered to the medical needs of Alexandropol, Karaklis
and Kars. He returned home in July
1920. He is now doing medical teaching
at the New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. |
Barton lists as Dr. Harold M. Marvin |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Mason |
Louise J. |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Mason, J. Louise (Dr.), of
Boston, joined the "Leviathan" party and went to Ordu. For more than a year she did relief work
there where both Armenian and Greek orphanages were administered from
Trebizond. She returned to America
June 7, 1920. She is now living at 191
Newbury Street, Brockton, Mass., and acting as High School physician. Her permanent address is Falmouth, Mass. |
Barton lists as J. Louise Mason |
McCarthy |
Peter T. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr), of Montana and Peter
Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass., joined the Near East Relief medical
personnel on the "Leviathan" for work at Adana where he was
Surgeon-in-charge. His hospital clinic
and field work were extensive. After
the evacuation of Marash in February 1920, many operations were necessary
upon refugees whose feet had been frozen by their long tramp through the
snow. Dr. McCarthy left Adana on March
8, 1920 reaching home May 30, 1920. He
is now settled in Missoula, Mont., 46 Higgins Block, practicing as physician
and surgeon. |
Barton lists as Dr. Peter T. McCarthy |
McGwigan |
Maud K. |
Civilian |
" |
McGwigan, Maude M. (Miss), of
Muscatine, Iowa, sailed on the "Leviathan" with the nursing
personnel. She was assigned to
Marsovan. She reached the states
August 24, 1920. In 1922 she went to
China where she is now attached to a hospital in Tientsin, Shantung Province. |
Barton lists as Maud M. McGwigan |
McIntosh |
William P. |
M.D.? |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Dr. William P. McIntosh |
McKay |
Janet M. (Br) |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
McMichael |
Bessie B. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Smith Belle B. McMichael –
(Mrs.,) registered from Erie, Pa, when, as Miss McMichael, she enlisted with
Near East Relief and started overseas on February 16, 1916. She was stationed at Mardin where she was
in charge of the children's orphanage.
She returned July 9, 1920. Mrs.
Smith is now living at 2993 Whitney Avenue, Detroit, Mich. |
Barton says Belle B. McMichael (now Mrs. B.
M. Smith) |
McNeill |
Martha F. |
" |
" |
MacNeill, Martha Foster
(Miss), of New York City went on the "Leviathan" and was sent to
Aleppo. She was given charge of the
workwomen in Aleppo industrial rooms and did not come back until July 15,
1920. She is now connected with the
New York State Office of Near East Relief and is living at 1020 Woodycrest
Avenue, New York City. |
Not listed in Barton |
Meeks |
Nelson P. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of New York City was on the "Leviathan's" list, booked for relief work. He served at Tiflis, Erivan and Alexandropol and returned March 7, 1921. He may be addressed care Mrs. F. P. Meeks, 52 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers, N.Y. |
|
Merrill |
Winnefred E. |
" |
" |
Merrill, Winifred Ellen
(Miss), of Boston, trained as teacher and orphanage matron, crossed on the
"Leviathan." Later she
billeted to Beirut. She returned to
America August 1920, and is now in Boston, Mass., 112 Jersey Street, teaching
English to foreigners. |
Barton lists Winifred E. Merrill |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Miller |
Ernest |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Miller Ernest E., of Chicago,
Ill., with experience as quartermaster agriculturist and superintendent of a
boy's home, went on the "Leviathan." He was assigned to Mardin. He came home May 16, 1920. He is now serving as a missionary at
Dhamtari, C.P., India. |
Barton lists as Ernest H.
Miller. |
Mills |
Blanche |
Ҽo:p> |
" |
Mills, Blanche E. (Miss), of
Berkeley, Calif., went across with the "Leviathan" party. After more than a year of hospital work in
Erivan she came back to America in September 1920. Her present address is 2521 Piedmont
Avenue, Berkeley, Calif. |
Barton lists as Blanche E. Mills |
Mitchell |
Edwin K. |
Ҽo:p> |
" |
Mitchell, Edwin Knox, of Hartford,
Con., returned to the States on November 25, 1919, from service in
Alexandropol. He may be addressed care
Prof. Edwin K. Mitchell 57 Gillett Street, Hartford, Conn. |
|
Mitchell |
Elsie R. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr.), of Berkeley, Calif.,
crossed on the "Leviathan" with the medical personnel. Stationed in the Caucasus she served at
Etchmiadzin and Erivan during the period when the refugee situation was
terrific and just a beginning was made with orphanage work. Dr. Mitchell is now living in California
but may be reached by addressing her 228 East 9th Street, Plainfield, N.J. |
Barton lists as Dr. Elsie R. Mitchell |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Moore |
Alice |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Chicago, Ill., was
a member of the Smith College Unit when she sailed on February 16, 1919. The Smith Unit took over the work at
Malatia with its varied activities – an Armenian Orphanage, a Home for Defectives
and an Industrial Department among them.
In June, 1920, Miss Moore was re-assigned to
the Samsoun Unit. She started for home
November 15, 1920 and is now living in Santa Paula, Calif., (P.O. Box 743),
where she is doing secretarial work. |
|
Morgan |
Alfred L. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Morgan |
Alice |
" |
" |
" |
Ҽo:p> |
Morgan |
Janet E. (Br) |
" |
" |
Morgan, J. Edith (Miss), of Montclair,
N.J., sailed February 16, 1919, as a member of the nursing personnel of Near
East Relief. Attached to the Corps at
Mardin she served during the early and very difficult days. She returned December 9, 1920. Her present address is 305 Halsey Street,
Newark, N.J., where she is Resident Superintendent of the Newark Female
Charitable Society and Director of the Fresh Air Home. |
Barton lists as J. Edith Morgan |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Mowbray |
Agnes L. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Farnsworth, Agnes Mowbray –
(Mrs. Thomas Farnsworth of Montclair, N.J. went across with the
"Leviathan" party on February 16, 1919. She went to Constantinople where she did
secretarial and relief work for eighteen months. She edited the "Acorne," the News
Publication of the American Commission of Relief for the Near East, from its
beginning until her departure in December 1920. Now married to Mr. Farnsworth, whose
acquaintance she made overseas, she is living at 63 Evergreen Avenue,
Hartford, Conn. |
Barton says Agnes Mowbray
(now Mrs. Thomas A. Farnsworth.
Teamwork says Thomas F. Farnsworth) |
Myer |
Leon H |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Newman |
Arthur T. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of New York City, a sanitary engineer, left America with the large party that sailed February 16, 1919. He was sent to Smyrna where he set up the sanitary machinery in the hospital. He was a member of the Inter-Allied Sanitary Commission and was advisor on sanitation for the Greek Military Hospital. He reached the United States January 20, 1920 and may now be addressed 704 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
|
Niles |
Margaret H. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Bloomfield, N.J.,
joined the "Leviathan" group of dietitians and food
specialists. Sent to Harpoot she
worked with refugees and orphans.
America saw her again in June 1920.
She is now a nutrition worker, her address being 57 Clinton Road, Glen
Ridge, N.J. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Noone |
Byron M. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Noone, Byron Mortimer, signed
with Near East Relief early in 1919, sailing on February 16. Assigned to Smyrna, Mr. Noone remained
there until the closing of the work in January 1920. In Constantinople in April he joined
Y.M.C.A. for service in Adana. There
he continued after rejoining the Near East Relief (December 1, 1921). With the evacuation of Cilicia he moved
Adana orphans to Tarsus, thence to Mersine and by boat to
Constantinople. He left Adana the
following February (1922), to go to Konia to assist Dr. Dodd, and in
November, 1922, after the Smyrna disaster, he transferred the Konia orphans –
400 boys and 300 girls – to Greece. He
was in Syria in charge of the boys' camp in April 1923, and reached America
on the first day of November, 1923. Mr. Noone is now studying at Columbia
University, his address being 346 West 57th Street, New York City. |
|
Norton |
Ellen M. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Noyes |
Fanny G. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Olkon |
David M. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
O'Neill |
Lillian |
" |
" |
(Miss), was on the roster of Debarkation
Hospital No. 2 at Staten Island, New York City when she joined the group of
nurses on the "Leviathan."
She was sent to the Caucasus and stationed at Karaklis. She reached the States June 25, 1920, and
may be addressed 143 East 27th Street, New York City. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Park |
James L. |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Dr.), sailed on February 16,
1919, on the "Leviathan." He
was assigned to Mardin, where he managed the boys' orphanage and the
laboratory. He took over the
Directorship of the Aintab Unit before the ending of the siege (February,
1921) and was instrumental in restoring some degree of normal living among
the people. In September 1921, he was
connected with the U.S. Consulate at Smyrna where he stayed for a year. He is now Vice-Consul at Constantinople. |
Barton lists Dr. James L.
Park |
Parmelee |
Ruth A. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr.), of Baltimore, Md., was
one of the medical personnel on the "Leviathan." She was assigned to Harpoot. There she ran a daily clinic in the city
for women and children, shared in the care of the 100 - child home care units
of the orphanage, managed the home for girls rescued from Turkish harems,
administered the maternity hospital and fought typhus. Deported from Turkey by the Kemalists in
January 1922, she went via Aleppo and Constantinople to America, May 1922,
returning to the Near East late in September and taking up the
superintendence of medical work at a refugee camp near Salonica. She has also taken charge of the industrial
work for refugee women established by the American Board at Salonica. She may be addressed care A.B.C.F.M., 14
Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. |
Barton lists as Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Patterson |
William B. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
ɼspan class=GramE>also crossed on the "Leviathan," his work being X-Ray operator. He went to all areas. [See Dr. Gladys M. Carr for address] |
|
Peabody |
Stephen C. |
" |
" |
Peabody, Stephen Clough
(Rev.), of Appleton, Wis., sailed on February 16, 1919, for the Near
East. He was stationed at
Samsoun. He came back to the States
January 20, 1920. Rev. Mr. Peabody is
a congregational clergyman and may be addressed care Y.M.C.A. of Moline, Ill. |
|
Pearson |
Gertrude S. |
" |
" |
Geistweit, Gertrude I.
Pearson – (Mrs. H. Geistweit), of Oak Park, Illinois, as Miss Pearson made a
start on her way to the Near East on February 16, 1919. She was sent to Erevan where she helped
establish a soup kitchen and gather the children into orphanages and
schools. Then she was attached to the
Karaklis station. She came back to the
United States July 21, 1920. Mrs.
Geistweit's present address is 520 Barkman Street, San Diego, Calif. |
Barton says Gertrude I. Pearson (now Mrs.
H. H. Geistweit |
Peers |
Adeline G. |
" |
" |
Peers, Adeline C. (Miss), of Mississippi,
crossed on the "Leviathan," February 16, 1919. She served in Aleppo and returned to the
States August 11, 1920. Her address at
the moment is 1333 Buchanan Street, Topeka, Kans. |
Barton lists as Adeline C. Peers |
Peers |
Frank |
" |
" |
Peers, Frank J. W., signed
with Near East Relief from the base hospital at Fort Sill, Okla., and crossed
with the "Leviathan" party of which his sister Miss Adeline Peers
was a member. Sent to Aintab Mr. Peers
was there during the difficult days of the siege. His address now is 106 Packard Street, Ann
Arbor, Mich. |
Barton lists as Frank J. W. Peers |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Peltier |
Paul D. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Paul Peltier |
Perry |
Edward T. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of Hartford, Con., crossed February 16, 1919, and was sent to the Caucasus where he warded off starvation and disease from some 850 orphans. At Erivan he was in charge of the industrial work, and he suffered an attach of typhus. In May 1920, he came back to the States, and worked in the personnel department of Near East Relief. He is now studying in the theological seminary of Hartford, Conn., preparing to return to Turkey under the American Board in the summer of 1924. His address is 155 Broad Street. |
|
Phelps |
Annie A. |
" |
" |
(Miss), yet another of the
"Leviathan's" passengers on February 16, 1919, went to Marsovan
where she had charge of the industrial relief. Later she was at Samsoun. She returned to the United States December
2, 1921. She is at present working in
the Cleveland Associated Charities, her address being 2215 Devonshire Drive,
Cleveland, O. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Phillips |
Mabelle C. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Phillips, Mabelle Charlton, of
Plainfield, N.J., and New York City, was a member of the Wellesley Unit that
crossed on the "Leviathan" and was assigned to the Constantinople
Area. She did case work in
Constantinople as chairman of the Case Work Committee. She aided with the care of the Russian
refugees on the island of Proti. After
about two years in Constantinople she was transferred to the Caucasus where
she built up the work in Djarlal Oghli.
She returned to America, January 1923, but went back to Russia with
the Friends' Society in whose care she may be addressed at Bunzuluk, Somara. |
|
Pinneo |
Annie L |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Power |
Mabel H. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Mrs. Mabel H. Power |
Pratt |
Armstrong C. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr.), of New York City was a
member of the medical personnel of Near East Relief that crossed on the
"Leviathan." He was attached
to the Unit sent to Smyrna which left Derindje with its hospital and laboratory
equipment on April 10, 1919. He
assisted in the difficult task of setting in order the old Turkish hospital
in a part of which the American hospital was opened. Then he was sent to the Caucasus and
stationed (July, 1919) at Karaklis. He
returned to New York, March 22, 1920, and is now living in Gallup, New
Mexico. |
Barton lists as Dr. Armstrong C. Pratt |
Pratt |
Edna S. |
Civilian |
" |
(Mrs. Armstrong C. Pratt),
did relief work in Karaklis and came to the States as above. |
Listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Pye |
Ernest |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Ranney |
Charles F. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Reilly |
Grace L. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Allston, Mass.,
went over on the "Leviathan" with the nursing force of the Near
East Relief. She served at
Constantinople and was one of the nurses attached to Near East Relief on the
island of Proti when the refugees driven from Russia by the Bolshevists went
there to be cared for. She returned to
America June 19, 1920, and is now Superintendent and Instructor of Nurses at
Arlington Heights, Mass. (149 Hillside Avenue.) |
Barton says Grace L. Reilly (now Mrs. H. J.
Raynor) |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Richards |
George L. |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Dr.), of Fall River, Mass., Assistant
Director of the Medical Division of Near East Relief, aided in filling the
lists of the medical personnel and sailed with them on the
"Leviathan." In the
assignment of duties after the meeting with the Director Dr. [George H.]
Washburn, in Constantinople, Dr. Richards was stationed at Derindje as
Director of the medical work there and in control of the distribution of
medical supplies to that unit. After
Dr. Washburn's return to America his post as Medical Director was filled by
Dr. Richards. With Dr. Richards in
charge [,] a railway clinic was maintained on a three-car train running
between Derindje and Angora. After all
the material for the stations had been sent out [,] Dr. Richards visited
European Turkey and all the stations in Angora, performing ear, nose and
throat operations and attending to the redistribution of many supplies. Since his return to America Dr. Richards
has been medical advisor to Near East Relief.
He is now practicing in Fall River (124 Franklin Street). |
Barton lists as Dr. George L. Richards |
Richards |
Mary L. |
Civilian |
" |
(Mrs. George L. Richards),
went over registered as a nurses' helper.
See above. |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Richards |
Lyman G. |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Dr.), of Fall River, Mass.,
joined the medical personnel on the "Leviathan" February 16,
1919. He was stationed at Smyrna with Dr.
[Armstrong C.] Pratt and Dr. [Hugh W.] Bell working in the hospital and the
clinics until about October first, when he returned to America. He may be addressed care Dr. George L.
Richards, 124 Franklin Street, Fall River, Mass. |
Barton lists as Dr. Lyman G. Richards |
Richmond |
Clara C. |
Civilian |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Riggs |
Charles T. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Charles Riggs |
Riggs |
Mrs. Charles T. |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Riggs |
Mary |
" |
" |
" |
Listed in Barton |
Robb |
Genevieve L. |
" |
" |
Robb, Genevieve I. (Miss), of
New York City, joined the nursing personnel of Near East Relief that sailed
on February 16, 1919. She was
stationed at Adana. She left for
America via Mersine, March 13, 1920, reaching home May 30. Miss Robb is now Supervising Nurse of the
New York State Department of Health, her address being 229 East Main Street,
Walden, N.Y. |
|
Rosenberg |
Caroline |
M.D. |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Dr. Caroline Rosenberg |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Rothrock |
Anna E |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Mrs.), crossed on the
"Leviathan" as head of the nursing force of Near East Relief and was
stationed at Constantinople where she became Superintendent of the American
Hospital at Stamboul. This hospital
developed a well-organized training school for native nurses. Transferred to the Red Cross, Mrs. Rothrock
worked with the Russian refugees on the island of Proti. She is now doing hospital social service
for the South Side Hospital, South 20th Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. |
Barton lists as Mrs. Anna E. Rothrock |
Ryan |
J. Clyde |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of Muncie, Indiana, was a member of the "Leviathan" party. Stationed at Trebizond he served actively in the turmoil of this busy station. March 3, 1920 found him again in the United States. His address is 300 East Highland Avenue, Muncie, Ind. |
|
Ryan |
Winogene |
" |
" |
(Mrs. J. Clyde Ryan), of
Muncie, Indiana crossed as above with her husband as a relief helper at
Trebizond. Return and address as
above. |
Barton says Mrs. J. Clyde Ryan |
Schultze |
Helen |
" |
" |
Shultz, Helen (Miss), of
Reading, Pa. was one of the "Leviathan" group of nurses. She served in Marash during the days when
the American buildings were under fire and came home May 23, 1920. She is now doing private nursing in
Reading, Pa. her address being 155 No.
Front Street. |
Barton lists as Helen Shultz |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Shafer |
Irving E. |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Dr.), of Salisbury, N.C.,
was one of the "Leviathan" party's medical men. Stationed at Samsoun with its hordes of
refugees striving to leave the country he did a huge amount of work in the
former Greek hospital turned over the Near East Relief. He returned February 9, 1920 and is now
practicing at Salisbury, N.C. |
Barton says Dr. Irving E. Shafer |
Shane |
Myrtle O. |
Civilian |
" |
(Miss), of Columbus, O., who
had endured the troubled days of Bitlis as an American Board Missionary,
sailed on the "Leviathan" and undertook executive duties at
Alexandropol. She was one of those who
remained in the Caucasus after the fall of Kars in October 1920. She took no holiday from her work until
after two and a half years' most valuable services in the Caucasus area when
she went to Constantinople for a visit.
In September 1921 she sailed once more for the Caucasus where she
continued her Near East Relief service until the winter of 1922. At that time she was released from the
organization, and again took up missionary activities. She is now serving at a mission school at
Salonica. |
|
Sharp |
Roberta K. (Br) |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Canada and New
York City, was one of the nursing members of the "Leviathan"
party. After serving in Smyrna she
went to Constantinople and was transferred to the Red Cross for work for
Russian refugees at Proti. Miss Sharp
is now Nurse in Charge at Wells College, Aurora, N.Y. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Sherman |
Louise R. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Sherman, Louise Reed (Miss),
of Massachusetts went overseas on the "Trafford," February 23,
1919. She worked in the Beirut Area at
Tripoli and returned to America June 18, 1920. She is now traveling for her health but may
be addressed Newtonville, Mass. |
Listed in Barton. She may
have missed the Leviathan. |
Sherman |
Vina M. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Small |
Helen K |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Maine, made one of
the "Leviathan" party and went to Hadjin where she was in charge of
the orphanage during the siege. She
went on the Adana, whence she transferred 600 orphans to the Island of Cyprus. From Adana she was transferred to Harpoot
where she stayed a year and sailed for the states in August 1921. Miss Small may be addressed at
Yarmouthville, Maine. |
Barton lists as
Helen H. Small |
Smith |
Arthur J. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton as Dr. Judson A.
Smith. There seems to be a reversal of
the first two initials in the passenger list. |
Smith |
Harriet A. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Boston, Mass., made
one of the nursing force on the
"Leviathan." Stationed at
Urfa she was in charge of the orphanage clinic throughout the hostilities and
until June 1920 when she left Constantinople for America. Her address is 52 Westland Avenue, Boston,
Mass. She is connected with the
Massachusetts State Department of Public Welfare. |
Listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Smith |
Carleton T. |
M.D. |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
ɼspan class=GramE>of Massachusetts, sailed on January 16, 1919, and was assigned to Adana where he served as a laboratory worker at a time when the hospital was packed and the clinic was giving 2,500 and 3,000 treatments a week. He came home May 27, 1920 and may be addressed 14 Webster Street, West Newton, Mass. |
Not listed on the passenger
list of the "Leviathan" but Team Work lists his wife and himself as
being on the Leviathan. |
Smith |
Hildegarde G. |
Civilian |
" |
Smith, Hildegarde (Mrs.
Judson A. Smith), of Cambridge, Mass., sailed with her husband, Dr. Smith, on
the "Leviathan" and went on with him to Konia, where she did
hospital and orphanage work. The
permanent address of Dr. and Mrs. Smith is 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston Mass.,
but at the moment they are in Los Angeles, Cal., where they be addressed, 900
Wildwood Trail. |
Barton says Hildegarde Smith (now Mrs.
Judson A.) [Both Smiths are listed by Barton.] |
Smith |
Lillian S. |
" |
" |
Keizer, Lillian Soule Smith –
(Mrs. John Keizer), of Boston, Mass., went across on the
"Leviathan" and was booked to Derindje for secretarial work and
housekeeping. She married Mr. Keizer
at Bardizag. |
John Keizer of Lafayette,
Ind., was in Paris in August 1919, when he signed with Near East Relief. He did transportation work at the Derindje
warehouse. He married Miss Lillian
Soule Smith of the Derindje Unit, May 7, 1921, and they returned to America
via Holland July 3, 1921. Mr. and Mrs.
Keizer are both doing Boys' Industrial School work. Their address is Bolton, Mass. (P.O. Box
42.) |
Smith |
Maurice F. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in
Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Smith |
Olive A. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Plattsburgh, New
York, and of New York City, was a member of the Wellesley Unit that crossed
on the "Leviathan." She
acted as Business Manager at the Constantinople Headquarters throughout her Near
East Relief service. She returned
January 29, 1920. Miss Smith is now
personnel manager in a department store in Terre Haute, Indiana, and may be
addressed 920 South 7th Street. |
|
Smith |
Sarah M. |
" |
" |
Smith, Sarah Margaret (Miss),
of Ephrata, Pa., joined the force of nurses on the
"Leviathan." Assigned to the
Beirut Area she worked at Shuf. She
returned August 10, 1920. Her present
address is Ephrata, Lancaster Co., Pa. |
Barton lists as Sarah Margaret Smith |
Smucker |
Jesse |
Ԃrotherՠ |
" |
Smucker, Jesse M. (Rev.), of
Smithville, Ohio, crossed with the "Leviathan" party and was
assigned to Diarbekir where he aided Miss Emily Wade and Miss [Anna] Dando to
manage the activities of the station.
He returned September 1920. At
present he is acting as teacher and minister at Smithville, O. |
Probably a Mennonite. Barton lists as Jesse M. Smucker |
Snyder |
Paul |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Snyder, Paul V., of Texas,
crossed on the "Leviathan" and was sent to Marash. He was there during the dangerous and
exciting days of the American occupancy.
Mr. Snyder was one of those who stayed on at the Near East Relief
station after Dr. [Mabel] Elliott and others had taken out some 3,000
refugees. Later he went to the Aleppo
area and was in the transport service at Beirut. He returned to America, September 25,
1920. He is now living in Hesston,
Kans. |
Barton lists as Paul V. Snyder |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Spaulding |
Mary |
" |
" |
Spalding, Mary of Lowell,
Mass., a dietitian, joined the "Leviathan" party, served at Sivas
and later at Alkhalkalaki and returned to the
States, July 19, 1920. Miss Spalding
is now living in New York City at 410 West 115th Street, and is studying
health education. (Barton lists as Mary
Spalding) |
|
Stapleton |
Robert |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Stapleton |
Mrs. Robert |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Starrett |
Eyadas M. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Stevens |
Katherine |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Stevenson |
Emily R. |
" |
" |
(Mrs.), of Spuyten Duyvil,
New York City, crossed on the "Leviathan" with the nursing forces
for a year at Adana. She came home
October 18, 1920 and is still living at Spuyten Duyvil, where she is engaged in
nursing. |
Barton says Mrs. Emily R. Stevenson (now
Mrs. Oldfield) |
Stively |
Florence M. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Syracuse, New
York, another "Leviathan" nurse, was stationed at Harpoot. She left Constantinople for home May 15,
1920. Miss Stively is now at home in
Syracuse, New York (454 James Street), and is nursing. |
|
Stone |
Mary S. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Stuart |
Ruth |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of New York City, a
nurse with the "Leviathan" party, went to the Caucasus and worked
in and about Alexandropol, being at Shusha during severe fighting and
insisting on returning to that dangerous point. She returned June 8, 1920. Miss Stuart may be addressed 134 Mt. Vernon
Street, Boston, Mass. |
|
Sullivan |
Mary L. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
Super |
Mary W. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Narberth, Pa.,
another "Leviathan"-ite had thrilling experiences
during the siege of Hadjin. She had
nursed a Turkish officer back to health and his intervention somewhat
lessened the difficulties of the siege.
On June 13, 1920, the Turks captured the buildings and ordered out the
Americans, allowing them to carry only hand baggage. On July 20, 1920, Miss Super left
Constantinople on her way to the States.
She is now doing private nursing in Narberth, Pa., her address being
728 Montgomery Avenue. |
|
Sutton |
Alice E. |
" |
" |
Sutton, A. Estella (Miss), of
New York City, sailed with the big group of February 16, 1919, served in
Constantinople and was transferred to the Red Cross for work with the Russian
refugees at Proti. She came home in
February 1921, and is now doing nursing in Phoenix, Arizona, her address
being 2210 West Jefferson Street. |
Barton lists as
Alice E. Sutton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Teal |
Helen |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Indiana, steamed
on February 16, 1919 with the nursing contingent on the
"Leviathan." She served in
the Aleppo district and returned April 14, 1920. She is now Assistant National Director,
American Red Cross, Public Health Nursing, and her address is 1260 Allison
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. |
|
Tenner |
Arthur S. |
M.D. |
" |
(Dr.), of New York City was
one of the first group of medical personnel sent across by the Near East
Relief. As an eye surgeon he was
assigned to Aleppo where the eye diseases of the Near East seemed to be
concentrated in the refugee camps in and around this border city. He established an ophthalmic hospital in
Aleppo and did some work at Adana. He
returned September 11, 1920 and is now practicing at 70 East 56th Street, New
York City. |
Barton lists as Dr. Arthur S. Tenner |
Tipple |
Adeline M. |
Civilian |
" |
Tipple, Adeline Mary (Miss),
of New York City sailed on the "Leviathan." Assigned to Sivas (July 1919) she organized
500-boy orphanage preparing much of the equipment – furniture and bedding –
with the aid of the refugees. From
July to November she conducted a boys' camp.
In January, 1920, Miss Tipple was transferred
to Alexandropol. On June 8, 1920 she
left Constantinople for the States. At
present she is doing social work in New York City as Head of the Italian Work
of the Clark Neighborhood House, her address being 283 Rivington Street. |
|
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Todd |
Edith Allen |
Civilian |
American Committee
for Relief in the Near East |
(Mrs. J. Edward Todd), of
Flatbush, New York, crossed with the "Leviathan" party and was sent
to Tiflis. There she met and married
Mr. Todd, September 20, 1919, severed her collection with Near East Relief
and returned to Constantinople (February 1920) to take a position with her
husband in Dr. [William W.] Peet's office in the Bible House. The Todds returned to America in April
1920. They are now living in 3
Woodbine Street, Worcester, Mass. |
J. Edward Todd of Lawrence,
Kansas was a member of the pioneer Near East Relief party sailing on the
"Mercurius" January 16, 1919.
Assigned to Tiflis he worked there until, after his marriage to Miss
Allen, he ended his connection with our Committee and went to Constantinople
to take a position in Dr. Peet's office.
He returned as indicated in the column to the left and is now selling
life insurance in the "Heart of the Commonwealth." |
Trefethren |
Anna L. |
" |
" |
Trefethren, Anna Laura
(Miss), of Oberlin, O., another "Leviathan" nurse was assigned to
Marsovan, where she served for a year, returning to America September 20,
1920. She is now a Community Visiting
Nurse in Oberlin, her address 207 East College Street. |
|
Traux |
Anna M. |
" |
" |
Truax, Anna M. (Miss), of Mt.
Vernon, S.D., one of the "Leviathan" party, was attached to the
Mardin Unit where she was put in charge of the general industrial work. She worked at Mardin until May 13, 1921
when she went to Urfa. After seven
weeks' delay there The Turkish Nationalist Government permitted her to go via
Aleppo to Beirut. She returned to
America August 19, 1921, where she has been doing State work for Near East
Relief. She is now resting at her home
310 West Fourth Avenue, Mitchell, S.D. |
Listed in Barton as Anna M. Truax |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Twidale |
Katherine (Br) |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Evenson, Katharine A. Twidale
– (Mrs. Frederic Evenson), was living in Niagara Falls, Canada, when she
signed on with Near East Relief to go across on February 16, 1919. She did nursing at Shuf in Syria and later
at Sidon. Now attending to her duties
as Mrs. Frederic Evenson, she is living at 35 Chestnut Street, Liberty, New
York. |
Barton lists as Katherine A. Twidale (now
Mrs. Frederic Evenson) |
Underwood |
Georgia L. |
" |
" |
Peterson, Georgia Underwood –
(Mrs.), as Mrs. Underwood, crossed on the "Leviathan" on February
16, 1919, and was assigned to Smyrna where she took charge of the American
Relief orphanage for girls' connected with which was a day nursery and an
investigating department. She stayed
in Smyrna until May 1, 1920. Mrs.
Peterson's address is now 1610 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Mich. |
Barton says Mrs. Georgia Underwood (now
Mrs. G. Peterson) |
Valentine |
Eugenia L |
" |
" |
(Miss), of New Rochelle,
N.Y., a "Leviathan" passenger was assigned to Aleppo and Beirut and
did bacteriological work until her return, March 12, 1920. She is now acting as [a] bacteriologist and
living at 46 Locust Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. |
|
VanDyke |
Elaine |
" |
" |
Not listed in
Team Work |
Barton lists as Elaine Van Dyck |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Van Etten |
Clara |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Van Etten, Clara E. (Mrs.),
of Olympia, Wash., left America on February 16, 1919, and was billeted to
Smyrna. There she was interested in
the Rescue Home for girls and later took charge of the Armenian Central Committee's
orphanage for boys, continuing her administration there after Near East
Relief withdrew from Smyrna. She
returned to America June 23, 1920 and is now at 1500 East Yamhill Street, Mt.
Tabor, Portland, Oregon. |
Barton lists as Mrs. Clara E. Van Etten |
Voight |
Ingeborg (Danish) |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Ingeborg
Voigt |
Wade |
Emily I. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of San Francisco,
Calif., a "Leviathan" passenger, was assigned to Diarbekir where
she had four years of arduous and exciting experiences. For a part of the time she had the sole
responsibility no other American being at the station. For a time she and Dr. Abby Noyes Little
shared the difficulties. Miss Wade
reached America August 1, 1923 and is now lecturing for Near East Relief in
California and living at 1106 Bush Street, San Francisco. |
|
Wallace |
Ethel D. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Muscatine, Iowa,
one of the "Leviathan" nurses, was assigned to Smyrna where she
aided Mrs. Van Etten with the orphanage children. She came home in March in 1920. She may be addressed 903 Iowa Avenue,
Muscatine, Iowa. |
|
Wallace |
Jessie D. (Br) |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Barton gives middle initial
as B. |
Webb |
Elizabeth S. |
" |
" |
" |
Listed in Barton |
Webb |
Mary G. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
White |
George E. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton |
White |
Margaret B. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
White |
Mrs. George E. |
" |
" |
" |
" |
Whiting |
Ruth E. |
" |
" |
Darbishire, Ruth E. Whiting – (Mrs. Robert S. Darbishire), of Waltham, Mass., and of the Wellesley Unit,
sailed with the other members on February 16, 1919. She was stationed at Trebizond,
Constantinople and, after her marriage to Mr. Darbishire,
at Broussa.
She is now very busy at home at Shelby, Ky. |
Barton says now Mrs. Robert D. Darbishire |
Whitney |
Raymond C. |
M.D. |
" |
Not listed |
Listed in Barton as Dr. Raymond Whitney |
Williams |
Clara |
M.D. |
" |
Ҽo:p> |
Listed in Barton as Dr. Clara Williams |
Willson |
R. G. |
Civilian |
" |
Willson, Richard T., of Watertown,
Mass., went over January 16, 1919, and was billeted to Smyrna. Mr. Wilson is now a lieutenant in the First
Cavalry and may be address at Marfa, Texas. |
Barton lists as Richard T. Willson |
Willson |
Mrs. M. C. |
M.D. |
" |
Not listed |
Barton lists as Dr. Marion C. Willson |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Wilson |
Frances E. |
Civilian |
American
Committee for Relief in the Near East |
Wilson, Frances L. (Mrs. Marion
C. Wilson), of Vauxhall, N.J., accompanied her husband on the
"Leviathan" and with him went to Marash where she aided in relief
and hospital activities. With Dr.
Wilson she returned September 16, 1920 and maybe addressed 349 Lambuth Building, Nashville, Tenn. |
Barton lists as Frances L. Wilson |
Wilson |
Marian O. |
M.D. |
" |
Wilson, Marion C. (Dr.),
sailed as above, reaching Marash in June, 1919. As director of the Unit Dr. Wilson
administered aid through feeding up to 5,000 women and children, cared for
1,500 orphans and ran a hospital for Turks and one for Armenians and French. Leaving the medical work in charge of Dr.
[Hugh W.] Bell, Dr. and Mrs. Wilson went to Beirut in June,
1920, and reached home as above. For
address see above. |
Barton lists as Dr. Marion O. Wilson |
Wilson |
Helen C. |
Civilian |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of New York City, crossed on the "Leviathan" and was assigned to the Caucasus. She reached America September 11, 1920 but went back to Russia and is now at Kemerovo. |
Listed in Barton |
Wilson |
Laura F. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton" |
Winchester |
Edith M. |
" |
" |
" |
Barton lists as Edith May Winchester |
Winter |
Mary |
" |
" |
" |
Not listed in Barton |
Surname |
First Name |
Situation/Title |
Team
Work Veterans' Number Entry |
Comments |
|
Witte |
Frances E. |
Civilian |
American Committee for Relief in the Near East |
(Miss), of Rutherford, N.J.,
was a member of the nursing force on the "Leviathan." Stationed in Erivan and Etchmiadzin she did
hospital, soup kitchen and clothing relief work, kept the books and ran a
training school for nurses. She
returned by way of France July 21, 1920.
At present she is Superintendent of Nursing at Ward's Island, New York
City. |
|
Wolfe |
Anna L. |
" |
" |
(Miss), of Berkeley,
California, crossed on the "Leviathan" and was assigned to
Akhalkalaki where she was in charge of the orphanage. When the disturbances forced the women
workers out of the Caucasus, Miss Wolfe assisted in the transfer of many of her
wards to Alexandropol and then returned to Constantinople. She came home in the summer of 1920. She is now in the Sales Department of the
Pacific Palisades Association of Los Angeles.
Her address is 829 Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California. |
|
Wright |
Mary M. |
" |
" |
Not listed |
Not listed in Barton |
Yoder |
William A. |
" |
" |
ɼspan class=GramE>of Center Valley, Pa., went overseas with the "Leviathan" party to work on the finance side. He was assigned Caucasus where he served at Tiflis and Alexandropol. With Mrs. Yoder he returned to America December 31, 1920. He may be addressed Obcni Dum, Prague 1, Czechoslovakia, where he is Secretary to the Commercial Attach of the American Legation. |
|
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