Walter Van Brunt, Duluth and St. Louis County: Their Story and People, Vol. II (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1921), p. 656-658 Clarence B. Sundquist, of Duluth, son of Clarence B. Sundquist, of Palo (R. D. Box No. 72), Minnesota, was born November 12, 1895, in Superior. He was enlisted at Duluth, as a private of the Signal Corps, Air Service, and was assigned to Company C, Three Hundred and Twenty-third Field Service Battalion at Camp Funston. Later, he was at Camp Stanley, Texas, but eventually embarked for foreign service at New York, sailing on the United States transport "Leviathan," which arrived at Brest, France, on September 28, 1918. Sundquist developed pneumonia while at Brest and died there on October 11, 1918. At that time he held the grad of corporal. The body was exhumed in 1920 and returned to this country, eventually reaching Duluth. Burial service was held on July 21st, former comrades firing the last salute over his grave at Park Hill Cemetery, Duluth. The funeral cermonies were held under the auspices of the Duluth post of the American Legion. Leslie Severt Swanman, who was a shipping clerk with the Knudson Fruit Company, Duluth, before enlisting, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on December 12, 1892. Duluth has been the home of the family for a long time and his mother still lives there, at 915 North Seventh Avenue, East. Leslie was enlisted at Duluth on May 25, 1918, and sent to Camp Lewis, Washington, where he was assigned to Company L, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Infantry, Fortieth Division. On July 25th he was transferred to Camp Kearney and there transferred to the Three Hundred and Twenty-fourth Infantry, Eighty-first Division. On August 20th he embarked at New York and made quick passage to Liverpool, eventually reaching France. He was in front-line trenches in the Vosges Mountains; was present in the battle of St. Mihiel, and passed through terrible fighting in the Meuse-Aronne offensive. On November 10, 1918, just one day before the signing of the Armistice, he was wounded in action at Haudimont, and died of those wounds twelve days later, on November 22, 1918. Edward B. Swanson lived at Saginaw, Minnesota, son of Ben Swanson, of that place. Wallace J. Taylor was of Virginia, where his mother still is. Olaf Ugstad, of Duluth, was born October 3, 1891, at Hurum, Buskruds County, Norway, but has been in America for many years. At one time he was employed by the Wilson Contracting Company, Duluth, and later was foreman at the St. Louis County Work Farm. He was enlisted into the United States army in January, 1918, and assigned to the Spruce Production Section of the Forestry Division. He was accidentally killed at Emuclaw, Washington, on August 2, 1918. the body was returned to Duluth for burial. A brother is Reginald Ugstad, of Hermantown. Fiori Valbiter, a resident in Virginia before the war, was born in Rome, Italy, and at the time of enlistment in 1918 was twenty-seven years old. He died at Detroit, Michigan. Haralebes Vasilion was of Hibbing. Florent Van de Perre also was of Hibbing. Peter Verdi made his home in Eveleth before entering the service, but was born at Agri, Italy, on May 2, 1897. He was a married man at time of enlistment, and his wife, Lydia, still lives in Eveleth. Peter left for military duty on May 17, 1918, and went to France with an infantry regiment. He was killed in action in France on November 1, 1918. Leander Waillin, lived at Sandy, Minnesota, where his father, Tom Waillin, has a farm. The family is Finnish, and Leander was born in Finland on September 8, 1886. He was included in the second Duluth draft for the National Army, but was destined not to go overseas. During the epidemic of Spanish Influenza which swept through the home cantonments in the autumn of 1918, Waillin contracted the disease, and died on November 10, 1918, being then at Camp Kearney, California. Aino Nicanor Wene was a stalwart agricultural pioneer of Buyck, St. Louis County. He was developing an acreage of wild land near Buyck when called into service in September, 1917. He was assigned to the Corps of Engineers and ultimately reached France, where he was killed in action on October 15, 1918. His sister, Mrs. Niemi Ahlgren, lives in Buyck, but the Wene family is of Finnish origin, Aino was born at Rauma, Finland, January 10, 1892. Philip T. White was of Ely, son of Harry E. White, of that place. Arthur Charles Williams was a native of Hibbing, although the family lived at Kinney at the time he enlisted. He was born on December 26, 1898, and lived on the Ranges practically all his life, his father having been connected with mining operations on the Range for almost a generation. He, William Williams, latterly has been blacksmith in the shops of the Oliver Iron Mining Company at Hibbing. The son was not yet twenty years old when, on August 5, 1918, he enlisted in the Medical Department of the United States army. He was almost immediately assigned to overseas duty and soon after landing in France was taken sick, pneumonia developing. He died at Brest on September 26, 1918, and was there buried. In 1920, however, his body was returned to the United States and arrived at Virginia on June 12, 1920. Burial took place in the part of Virginia Cemetery set apart to mark the last resting place of its World War heroes who made the Supreme Sacrifice. David Gilbert Wisted, in whose honor the Duluth post of the American Legion was named, was born in Duluth on September 13, 1893. In the early days of the war, he was a clerk with the United States Food Administration, but he enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 14, 1917, at Paris Isle. He was assigned to the Eighty-second Company, and for a time was stationed at Paris Isle and Quantico, Virginia. On February 24, 1918, he was transferred to the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Company, Replacement Battalion, and later to the Sixth Marines, embarking at Philadelphia on March 12th, 1918. Debarking at Brest on April 1, 1918, the Marines were soon at the front and were destined to bring glory to their country, in the part they took in the fighting at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood in May and June of that vital year. Wisted was killed in action at Belleau Wood on June 3, 1918, being instantly killed by a high-explosive shell. His father, Iver Wisted, lives at 1201 East Fourth Street, Duluth. John Oscar Wuori is listed with the men from Duluth, but he lived in Gilbert for some time prior to enlistment. He was a Finn, born at Pomarkku, Finland, March 9, 1888. He reported for duty on August 8, 1918, and was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he was assigned to Company Thirty, One Hundred and Sixty-third Depot Brigade. He died of pneumonia in that camp on October 8, 1918. As will be appreciated from a reading of the foregoing some of these men had wide accomplishments and definite capability, some were worthy tillers of the soil and some were industrious workers in commercial affairs of St. Louis County. But all were patriots; and the names of all who have been inscribed on the great national Roll of Honor, there to remain for as long as the great republic lasts. And for as long as there is a County of St. Louis, Minnesota, for so long will these of her sons be sillingly and deservedly accorded the place of honor in any comprehensive review of the County's part of the Great World War.