Hines in Cook County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Veterans Honor Roll
Roger C. Lovett Raymond M. Lohmann Clifton J. Floyd Harry C. Halladay Egbert L. Halladay Dana B. Thrasher George D. Snow Albert William Bloss Darwin Curtis Kenneth Curtis Lyndon Henry Lesch Roderick White Mason Eonald Hamacher Powell Howard S. Thomas Charles Henry Vial Christ W. Schaflein Jack Milloy Matt Blondett Charles Leo Eddy Albert O. Abraham Walter J. Kenney John Naughton Eugene T. Bellar Walter Pickartz Alvin W. Anderson Evald L. Anderson Robert Oscar Zajicek Albert Klavunn Joseph Milton Farley Peter M. Conway Thomas M. Malone Charles A. Gardiner Hugh P. Murphy Daniel Sharp Douglas Thomas Hoffman Charles Bowen Busey Edward Newell Ware Jr. Joseph Bernard Fast Lorne North Frank Benjamin Swift Archie Lewis Lake Basil James Shaffner James W. O'Neill George F. Ludlow Paul Fitzner William R. Gorham Joseph Alvin Rueff Don A. Mc Donald Hartman Dawson Ralph O. Carqueville William F. Moorhouse George Romer Paul C. Deiley Carl H. Engelhardt Linus C. Ruth Robert H. Wolf Edward W. Moore Nestor Oxford Brem Benjamin F. Moore Duncan R. Mc Vicker Lawrence O. Peterson Albert Jay Thompson LeGrand Beebe Alonzo J. Beebe Victor J. Fara. Frank Prochazka Holger Haunstrup Jr. George H. Butler Walter Carter Butler Charles E. De Lacy John H. De Lac Wesley W. Kerr James C. Ryan Daniel B. Ryan William E. Ryan John G. Ryan William Urban Erwin W. Roemer Charles Mills Sloan Robert C. Cline Henry Hahney Marvin B. George Walter S. Haldeman Edward R. Reeves Edward John Funk Andrew C. Campbell Jr. George Herbert Patterson Treadwell W. Hubbard Ehardt L. Anderson Norman James Cornwall Edwin T. Maechtle Charles R. Davis Howard Sweetland Thomas Leland E. Terry Harry Smith William S. Marston Fred J. Pelaske Robert L. Greenwood Walter B. Greenwood Raymond B. Greenwood Clarence D. Andrews Kenneth Blakeslee Robert Clegg Robert L. Bard Harold W. Bowra Edward Droeger Merton J. Douthit John A. Miller Jerome E. Woodson John E. Wright Samuel R. Glenn Harry June Carl Roessler D.W. Andrews Harold J. B. Coxe Verner Brooks Bain Clarence James Mc Mullen Stanley Frank Dearing Glenn Thompson Andrew Pope Arthur Dixon Burton Charles Abbott Dean Paul Burton Norland Herbison Mc Mullen Royce Vivian Wallace Rudolf C. Lennmark George H. Melville Robert Bruce Miller Melvin F. Cole John Stickler James Kempt Read Fred M. Marquardt Clyde Browne Sylvia Riley George M. Kellogg Jr. Arnold S. Reninger Paul Cody Bentley George Theodore Houston Charles E. Caldwell Kersey M. Woodard Jack Kilroy David A. Taggart Napoleon J. Le Blanc William Ondock William L. Adair John James O'Connor Charles D. Lundy Robert Otis Barnes David H. Conwill Edwin L. Beifuss Sherwood D. Amidon Warner A. Robertson Howard G. Robertson Edward A. Horn Donald F. Abel Harry Masters Ralph H. Evans Edward A. Parks Benjamin H. Lau Earl Henry Linn Ervin A. Sturn F.M. Widick R.R. Rudolf P.B. Rudolf Jr. Charles Wheelock Otis Fred Samuel Shepard Charles Gordon E.h. Van Dusen Ellrige L. Lord Alfred G. Froehlich Clarence A. Martenson Herbert S. Lord Robert Barnett James Mc Kenerick A.J. Barglay C.M. Pohl Clarence R.O. Mc Millan Leroy W. Gross Franklin B. Ives Wm. Van DerVoort Gathany Frank Sockel Edwin James Baldwin Lawrence R. Wolfe Leo M. Seese James E. Haislett Hazen Amos Vaughan Frank H. Kern Frank A. Mauzy White Benton Mauzy Jr. Vincent J. Powers Harold W. Leffingwell Carolus Thomas Clark Salter Storrs Clark Jr. Coleman Tileston Clark Benjamin F. Mc Donald Michael Walters
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Adair, William Ahlberg, Harold C. Anderson, Alvin W. Anderson, Charles P. Anderson, Evald L. Archibald, Westley J. Bain, Verner Brooks Bagniewski, Michael J. Banks, John T. Barber, Frank Lawn Barry, Edward Becking, Alvin F. Bellar, Eugene T. Benson, Nona Bentley, Paul Cody Bergsman, Frank Bernard, William P. Beyer, Arthur A. Bies, Bernard M. Blaul, Frank Bowers, Walter C. Brem, Ernie Nester Brenner, Isadore Brophy, James Burke, Christopher J. Burke, Emmet Butler, William James Byrne, James J. Calabrese, Frank Callahan, Dennis J. Campbell, Gordon J. Cantwell, Joseph R. Carroll, Joseph A. Choitz, Charles Cina, Andrew Clare, Edward Louis Comerford, Frank P. Conniff, William S. Conway, Peter Conway, Robert Corcoran, James Cornwall, Norman J. Corsiglia, Charles J. Coughlin, Harold William Cowan, John W. Dax, Frank J. De Lacy, Charles E. Delihant, Leslie E. De Vere James Driscoll, Edward L. Duggan, J. Dunne, James Eddy, Charles Leo Ellis, Clarance V. Erdman, Rudolph Farley, Joseph Milton Fast, Joseph B. French, Jasper J. Fulton, Lawrence D. Galavan, Charles E. Gardiner, Charles A. Gawne, John A. Geary, Edward J. Golden, Hugh Golden, Robert D. Gordon, Philip Gundstrom, Harold G. Haffner, Richard Haislett, James E. Hassewer, Rudolph Herrman, Mathew A. Hines, Edward, Jr. Holds, William C. Houlihan, Robert F. Johnson, Walter E. Keane, William F. Keenan, John A. Kelley, Thomas Kennedy, Robert Kenney, Walter J. Klauvnn, Albert C. Kozel, Eddie La Juenesse, Henry J. Lake, Archie Lewis Lamoreaux, Joseph Leo Larime, John W. Lawrence, Edgar A. Le Blanc, Napoleon J. Linskey, William F. Loomis, Bennie Ludlow, George F. Lunday, Charles Lynch, John E. Lynch John F. Lyons, Edward Malone, Thomas M. Matre, Lawrance S. Mayo, Albert H. Meehan, John F. Meyer, Charles Henry Milloy, Jack Monroe, James Moore, Albert E. Mulhern, Lawrence S. Mullen, Daniel E. Murphy, Hugh P. Murphy, William Mc Clusky, Byron Mc Cune, Harold A. Mc Cune, James A. Mc Cutcheon, Ivan Mc Cermott, Joseph James Mc Donough, Martin Mc Greevy, Charles Mc Kay, James Mc Kinley Mc Quaid, Arthur Naughton, John D. Nbrth, Lorne, Norton, George Obolewioz, Michael O'Connor, James O'Malley, Frank O'Malley, James Orr, John Logan Pagers, Alfred Paske, Lawrence Pickartz, Walter Pike, Grover D. Platt, William Henry, J. Powers, Joseph Francis Prinz, Mathias Purdon, James A. Raterman, George A. Raterman, Joseph J. Rindfish, Elmer L. Riordan, Leander Emmett Rockford, William F. Roosevelt, Quentin Rumney Harry R. Ryan, John Saetiner, Frank Sage, Frank Schmidt, Henry J. Shanley, John A. Snyder, John M. Staeheli, Otto Steinrueck, Herman Sullivan, James Swift, Frank B. Swords, Clare M. Taggart, David A. Tarnowski, John C. Topa, Teofil Tracy, Robert Vaughan, Hazen Amos Vidal, Arthur Vocler, Joseph Walsh, William J. Ward, Albert F. Ward, Oliver C. Wendell, Peter Weyrich, Jonathan America White, Charles H. White, Charles H. White, Frank Arthur Mangy Whitson, Lester Widman, Lester Thomas WItzel, Joseph
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I.
Location. 41° 51.513′ N, 87° 50.47′ W. Marker is in Hines, Illinois, in Cook County. Memorial is on Crossman Circle, 0.1 miles west of Tripp Avenue, on the left when traveling north. The two tablets, about 10 feet apart, are affixed to the side of Building 2 on the campus of Hines VA Hospital. They can be found north of the building's entrance, between the ground-floor windows. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5000 5th Avenue, Hines IL 60141, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. World War I Memorial Fountain (within shouting distance of this marker); George Dilboy (approx. Ό mile away); Veterans Memorial (approx. Ό mile away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away); Forest Home Cemetery Veterans Flagpole (approx. 0.9 miles away); Columbia Post No. 706 (approx. 0.9 miles away); Phil Sheridan G.A.R. Post No. 615 Memorial (approx. one mile away); Native Prairie Plants (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hines.
More about this marker. Other than the long list of names and the World War I "doughboy's helmets" depicted at the top of each, the two plaques offer no other information about when they were erected, who erected them and what exactly they are honoring, and a history of the plaques could not be found online nor (at least not yet) in newspaper archives. All of that being said, some research on the names on the plaques indicate that this is almost certainly a memorial to men who died in World War I.
The brick building where the plaques can be found was the original administration building for Hines VA Hospital, which opened in 1921 in Chicago's western suburbs and is named after a local casualty of World War I, Edward Hines Jr.who is himself listed on one of the plaques. The Hines campus features at least three other World War I memorials in addition to these plaques. One of these, a memorial fountain dedicated in 1931 to World War I veterans, can be found about 100 feet from these plaques at this building's front entrancealthough there is no evidence linking these plaques to that statue. Two others, a statue for Greek-American hero George Dilboy (erected 1942) and another dedicated by American Legion Auxiliary groups from DuPage County (erected 1931), are near the campus's main building and its entrance off Roosevelt Road.
As for these two plaques, the list on the left (south) of the two markers is the longer of the two196 names in totaland the names are not presented in any immediately discernable order, in first-middle-last format. Meanwhile the 168 names on the right (north) marker are in alphabetical order with the last name printed first. Interestingly, several names appear on both of the plaques.
Archival research on the names makes it clear that this is almost certainly a World War I memorial, and likely one with a link to the Chicago area. However, the list is clearly far from an exhaustive representation of the war's local toll, based on a cross-check of a few other World War I monuments in the Chicago area. For example, the Peace Triumphant monument dedicated to World War I dead of Oak Park and River Forest, located about four miles northeast of here, includes the names of 56 dead, only six of whom are included on these Hines plaques. In Riverside, four miles to the southeast, a war memorial honors three men, only one of whom is listed here. Additionally, several names on these plaques could not be firmly linked to World War I using available records. Summed up, at this point we cannot say with certainty that these plaques are limited to World War I deaths, or only to men from the Chicago area.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 24, 2024. It was originally submitted on January 22, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 69 times since then. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on January 22, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 3. submitted on January 23, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 4. submitted on January 19, 2024, by Sean Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.