Show IS NAMED LEGION HISTORIAN Eben Putnam Performed Similar Servi t i d ice Before the Office Was Made Permanent A life Ufe of singular variety and adventure adventure adventure ad ad- venture irons has been hen that of ot Ebon Ehen Putnam w new new chosen chosen national nation nation- al nl historian of the time American Legion is Mr Air Putnam was j born I In n Salem Mass Oct 10 1568 He received his education In private private r vate schools and the Cambridge high school While he was a boy he was the companion and assistant of his father the distinguished anthropologist gist Prof Frederic Ward Putnam In archaeological explorations In various vallous parts of the time world Mr Putnam has been deeply Interested interested Inter inter- ested In genealogy eugenics and New England hIs histories orles and has hns compiled and published a number of works on these subjects He has conducted extensive extensive ex- ex Investigations over a period of more than twenty five years into the time question of Immigration He lIe Is a member of the Society of Colo Colonial lal Wars WUl'S s the Sons of ot the American Revolution Revolution Revo- Revo lution the Military Order of Foreign Wars and American Historical Society Socie Socie- ty Early In the fall tall of 1915 Mr Putnam Putnam Put Put- nam Dam became convinced that this country country country coun coun- try must enter the war eventually and Joined the time training school organIzed organized organ- organ zed In his state He attended the Plattsburg camp the following summer summer summer sum sum- mer and the next winter was a member member mem- mem ber er of a n provisional of try ry He was barred from a n commission commissIon commission commis commis- sion In the line because of his age but buton buton buton on April 4 1017 1917 was commissioned a captain In the quartermaster corps His son also was In the service Mr Putnam served as assistant to th the depot quartermaster In tn Boston and later ater served overseas In the fuel branch He was discharged August 22 1919 1010 Mr Putnam Is a charter member of Wellesley Post No 72 of the he American Legion and was Insurance insurance ance officer and post historian until he ic resigned to accept the post of at department department de de- de- de historian for Massachusetts where he the served also In the capacity of a member of the state executive committee He had performed the duties of a national historian of the Legion before that office once was made permanent |