Bio of Squire, Yale H. Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Squire, Yale H. (page 713), was educated in Mazeppa, his birthplace, and
at Pillsbury Academy, Owatonna. He soon engaged in journalistic work,
first on the Mazeppa Journal, later as conductor of a paper in northern
Michigan, and then as a reporter on the Minneapolis Daily News. After some
further experience in Duluth and Atlanta, Ga., he returned to Minneapolis
and in the spring of 1914 was engaged by the Minneapolis Tribune. After
making a good record and scoring one of the biggest "scoops" known for
some time in the newspaper field of that city, he was transferred to the
sporting news department of the paper as assistant sporting editor and
qualified himself as the golf expert of the Tribune. When it became
probable that war would be declared he offered his services to the
Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps and left Minneapolis April 15, 1917, with
Joe McDermott and others. A few days later, on April 21, he sailed for
France, which county he reached after his vessel had narrowly escaped
being torpedoed by a German submarine. In Paris he enlisted in Section 21
of the French army and served four and a half months as an ambulance
driver, donating not only his services but his expense in this work, as
the French government paid the men only three cents a day. When American
forces got to France the ambulance service was disbanded, and young Squire
might have returned home, but with his friend Robert G. Browning of
Minneapolis, afterwards captured by the Germans, he elected to volunteer
for the aviation service, and on September 15 he began training. On
February 18, 1918, he received his commission as first lieutenant. After
having one narrow escape from death, from which he saved himself by his
presence of mind, he finished training and was made an instructor. It was
but three days later, on June 26, while instructing Norman D. Hughes of
Philadelphia, that he met his death, together with his pupil, owing to the
fall of his plane. He survived until 12:10 a.m., June 27, and was buried
in the officers' section of the American cemetery at Tours, France. He was
one of the first young men from Wabasha County to offer his services, his
loyalty to the country was firm and unshakable, and he took a great pride
and interest in his work. His parents and his numerous friends can take
pride in the thought that he did his full duty with unflinching courage
and met his fate like the brave soldier he was.