Show LEGION MEN LIKE HIS TYPE detate adjutant of Min minnesota necota made numerous efforts before ae ac cepter for war service orace G whitmore began sery scry ing under pershing early lie ile holding down don a u pivot in the cadet battalion at the university of nebraska Y 11 in 1805 1895 when tile future el was as n com comm I 1 and a n t here incidentally air whitmore und and general per filing ahing formed a on oil the val lipus which endures to the present doy day and aal which found expression lifter after the alie armistice when tile cinc C 0 in alno C inspecting the bac hundred and fifty birot cwi iwi tn lit germany lert left a crowd of generals gc nerah walked over to a little first sergeant thrust out ills his land and said whitmore I 1 nin am glad to see you whitmore was vias born boril lit in dnton dayton 0 in 1873 1871 was aa brought bro up on oil a R farm in nebraska and graduated from the hie mate university there in 1805 ile he was a contractor in minneapolis in 1017 when lie presented himself for admission to the first series of officers training camps ile he was va rejected ris ns being overweight hack back to the farm arm went whitmore rn in f four our weeks lie took of off 20 pounds poun ala ond and asked to bo be admitted to the second series of training ruining camps but the surgeon said too fat to fight another examiner sold too old whitmore went from recruiting office to recruiting ollice until lie became a private in battery U B one hundred wid fifty first field artillery forty second division ile iio went over beas bilth the outfit and served w with I 1 it it through the war participating in n every engagement in which the rn llalon bows took part when discharged lio lie was induced to become state adjutant of tile ahnert can legion for minnesota lie ile lia done much for tile development or of ahr th legion in the northwest air whitmore recently resigned from that position to accept the directorship of a company formed tor for the turo ture of on an automobile accessory dovice device which lie ho invented |