Show FA FATHER THER AND SON SOl BOTH LIEUTENANTS 3 J wI 4 3 f 4 c 4 e I i 4 I S. o Licul 1 O. O C. C O. O Van Meter above nbc and anil hN his hisson son Non Nn G. G E. E Yon Van Meter Bloomington Il G. G O. O Van VanMeter Van Meter Moter oter and G. G E E. Van Meter both bothof bothof of or Mansfield father and son are arc tho the only Instances of successful candidates candidates candi candi- dat dates s for Ilm army commission from rom civil civi life who bore borc such relationship The Tho father is a lawyer lawer and the son a university professor When hen war was as declared both loth decided to respond to the call to the colors The They entered the first training camp for rOl officers at Fort and both were commissioned com coin tho the same amo da day The father was assigned to t tho e quartermasters quartermaster's corps and Vas was among the first of or tho the American officers to reach Franco France Franco The Tho son followed later The father was a former resident of or South Dakota Jota and became prominent prominent nent in politics there being state chairman of the tho Progressive party there thero In 1912 holding that post four years The Tho To son Ron was a 1 graduate of the tho University of ot Nebraska ka and athletic ath letic lete director and professor of or mathematics of or that Institution lie ho Io is widely known as a a college athlete Father and son are arc si six feet one inch in height height They came from fighting stock and each cach generation has participated participated par par- in every war since the origInal original inal Van Meter came to America America from Holland Holand with Peter Stuyvesant |