PIERCE COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR
Pierce County, Wisconsin
Published September 1919 by the Red Wing Printing Company
Red Wing, Minnesota (Photos can be found at www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/wwi.htm)
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Y.M.C.A. WORKER AND PEACE COMMISSION CARTOGRAPHER

W.H. HUNT enlisted for overseas educational work in the A.E.F. on December 3, 1918.
This work was then under the direction of the Y.M.C.A.  Sailed for France on March
17, 1919, and was transferred into the army on April 16, all educational work of the
army being taken over by the government at that time-and formed into a unit
designated as the "Educational Corps".

Mr. HUNT did lecture work under the direction of the College of Agriculture of the
A.E.F. University located at Beaune, France.  He worked with the 81st, 90th, 6th,
and 4th Divisions and the 2nd Army Corps.  His work took him through Northern and
Eastern France and most of Germany west of the Rhine.

PROF. C.G. STRATTON obtained leave of absence from the Normal School in October,
1918, to go to New York to work on a government inquiry, then at work in the
building of the American Geographical Society at 3755 Broadway, N.Y.  The purpose of
the inquiry was to collect information and to prepare maps for the use of the peace
commissioners when the war should finally end.  This inquiry was at work over a year
before the war closed.

When the American Commission to Negotiate Peace was organized, the inquiry was made
a part of it and the members sailed for France on the George Washington December 2,
1918, arriving in Paris December 14, 1918.

Worked in the Map Room of the American Commission at 4 Place de la Concorde as
assistant cartographer till June 1st, 1919.  The chief cartographer was Prof. Mark
JEFFERSON of Ypsilanti, Mich., who also left on June 1st.  There were 16 map
draftsmen, 4 photostat men, and several stenographers and orderlies continually at
work in the map room till March 1st, after which date the force was diminished.  A
great amount of work was done, including the making of over 500 original maps, some
in hundreds of copies, few in less than a dozen copies.  Besides this, hundreds of
maps and charts were being reproduced by means of the photostat machines and the
engraving plant at General Headquarters in Chaumont.

One of the most important phases of the work in the map room was the collection,
cataloging, and distributing of printed maps.  By April 1st there had been purchased
or otherwise accumulated over 20,000 maps, for the use of the Peace Commission.  Of
these, very few were of American manufacture.  They were mostly English, French,
Italian, German and Hungarian.

Mr. STRATTON'S work included the complete responsibility for this collection of
maps, and the records connected with it, as well as the filing and cataloging of the
manuscript and photostat maps.  Out of this vast and complicated collection of maps
he was expected to be able, at a moment's notice, to select any particular map named
to him or to furnish maps of any particular region.

He returned to work at the River Falls State Normal School July 1st, 1919.