Evanston in Cook County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Fountain Square Veterans Memorial Wall
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, May 25, 2025
1. Fountain Square Veterans Memorial Marker
Inscription.
Fountain Square Veterans Memorial Wall. . They gave their lives in war that we might live in peace , , Civil War , 1861-1865 , Alfred R. S. Bailey . George R. Cluff . Joseph R. Edsall . George Gamble . Walter J. Kennicott Alphonso C. Linn . Eugene A. Lyford . Henry G. Meacham . William Pratt . James Roseman . Charles H. Shepley . William E. Smith . Edgar E. Wead , , Spanish American War , 1898-1898 , Frederick O. Brown . William C. Bryant . Arthur T. Cooper . Frank W. Foster . Robert B. Gushwa . James M. Jewell . George O. Hoover , , World War I , 1917-1918 , Ernest Adams . Emery Bartlett . Clarence Bates . Merrill Blanchard . Oscar W. Bloomquist . Oliver B. Cunningham . Paul Dale . Russell J. Dills . Max Doris . William Eastman, Jr. . Alvin Fingal . Hugh Fulton . Thomas Henry Garnett . Wayman Guinn . John B. Guthrie . Warren Hauser . Lewis Charles Heppner . Edward Hines, Jr. . Frank J. Hoeynick . William Johnson . Thomas King . Paul K. Le Baron . Andrew Letzer . Albert Edgar Lowe . John Mathieson . Hugh A. McKenna . Edward William Newman . Sisto Parenti . Frank Bennett Parkhurst . Morton Peterson . William Smith Pettit . Frances Poole . Carl O. Rosequist . John A. Schaefer . John Nicholas Schutz . Frank L. Seery . Enoch N. Severin . Jouett F. Singleton . Jacob T. Slaate . Arvid Sternquist . Lawrence Tower . Thomas Bestor Vanevery . Albert Vetter . George C. West . Horace E. Wood . Helen B. Wood , , World War II , 1941-1946 , Frederick T. Albanese Joseph Stark Alex Robert Edwin Allen . Elvin L. Anderson, Jr. . George L. Anderson . Oskar Anderson . Raymond A. Anderson . John Corby Andrae . Robert Yarnell Bair . Gordon G. Baker . Thomas A. Baldwin . Pierre Robert Bancel . William Peter Barg . Raymond A. Barker . Robert Chamberlain Barnard . Robert Bergendorff . Andrew J. Berner, Jr. . Fred L. Blake . James K. Bowman . John E. Bradstreet, Jr. . Byron C. Bramble . Robert L Branch . William Brownholtz . Denford Brumbaugh . John S. Burchmore, Jr. . William Elmo Burdette . Spencer Otis Burnham . John E. Byrnes . Jack G. Campbell . Robert H. Capitain . Frank Davis Case, Jr. . Ronald D. Chalmers . Carl Chase, Jr. . Harry Guy Chase, Jr. . Harald J. Christopher . Joseph John Clarke . John Dutton Conway . Earl Walter Cook . John Cowan Cooper, Jr. . Henry Barnett Cowap . David C. Cox . John A. Crawford . Charles Cressy . James A. Danforth . John B. Davies . William H. Dawson . Joseph J. Dennison, Jr. . John C. Dillon, Jr. . John Stephens Donovan . Jerome G. Downey . Philip R. Downey . William Burns Downey . Jack Richard Dupuis . William F. Eadie . Arthur R. Easingwood . Willard Eichelberg . Andrew O. Eilertsen . George William Endicott . Edward H. Endler . Robert Hayes Ennis . William Epperson . Philip A. Erby . Thomas Warren Erickson . Harry Duncan Fisher . Albert R. Fleischmann, Jr. . Leonard L. Forsland . Richard M. Foss . David Gleason Foster . George Vincent Foy, Jr. . Frank F. Frazier . James Stewart Freeman . Rodney E. Gaumnitz . George Gellas, Jr. . Herbert Kemp Gilbert . Daniel Goodman . George O. Griffith . Norman Bertrand Griggs . Lyman Grover . Herbert E. Guenther . Alfred Gulder . Charles Eldar Halvorsen . Robert W. Hankner . Robert Edward Hanna . Glenn Robert Hansen . John R. Heckman . William Frank Hess, Jr. . Charles D. Hill . Richard E. Hochschild . Howard Q. Hofmann . Gordon Phillips Hoover . Robert H. Houlette . Theodore R. Howe . Marvin L. Hull . William Donald Jaeger . Ben James . Cyrus F. Jennings . John A. Johnson . John Evert Johnson . Norman Lewis Johnson, Jr. . Robert Oliver Jorgesen . Robert P. Kaen Jr. . Adolph K. Kaufman . Thomas George Kees III . Eugene F. Kelly . George A. Kenneley, Jr. . Albert S. Kimmell, Jr. . Rexford R. Kinsley . Robert W.. Kittredge . Robert Bruce Klemola . Stanley Klores . Ernest J. Knodel . Lyle Wesley Koch . Paul John Krause . Philip Boone Kreischer . Alex C. Kuk . Maurice Campbell Lair . William W. Lamar . George W. Lane . Fred J. Lange, Jr. . Florian Laramore, Jr. . Albert T. Lindemann . Carl E. Lindquist . Robert Banderet Long . Algie Lovett . Charles D. McAleer . Donald Patrick McDonald . Donald McDougall . Arthur McDuffie . Maurice I. McElligott . Leroy J. McFaul . Janiel McMiller . Frank Angus McNally, Jr. . Richard Delzell Mather . William C. Miller . Donald Minnick . Thomas Alva Mottram . Carl F. Mountain . Edwin S. Myerson, Jr. . Eleanor Campbell Nate . Joseph C. Nate . Harvey Ingo Nitz . Lawrence H. Noel . Jack C O'Brien . Raymond W Olsen . Robert L. Overholser . James Roy Ozanne, Jr. . Sherwood J. Palmer . Warren A. Palmer . John Graham Patterson . Clayton B. Pearson . Donald Danforth Perry . Francis L. Peterson . Ivar L. Peterson . Thomas G. Pfiffner . Charles William Pflager, Jr. . Jack Carlton Phelps . John Bradford Phillips . John Paul Phillips . Eugene C. Piasecki . Walter P. Piehl . Felix H. Pientka . Samuel Pohn . Harry Puls . Irwin William Redemann . Charles Haun Reynolds . Charles Richard Rhein . William Henry Rhodes . Silas G. Richards . Walter James Richards, Jr. . Donald Stried Rocke . Judson Rollert . Raymond E. Roth . John J. Rubo . Norman A. Ryan . Richard D. Sampson . John R. Sawyer . Joe J. Schabinger . Raymond George Schmitz . William A. Schobert, Jr. . Howard E. Seefurth, Jr. . Newton Jere Selover . James Keller Sellon . Ralph D. Shanesy, Jr. . John Jerome Shockey . Eugene Blake Slocum . Leopold Joseph Smernoff . Robert W. Smith . William Henry Smith, Jr. . William Benjamin Snell . George Sollitt . Donald Southworth . Thomas L. Spoerer . Roy Steffey, Jr. . Arvid E. Sternquist . James H. Stewart . John G. Stubbs, Jr. . Raymond Stults . Frank A. Swanson . Charles Alfred Taylor II . William Byford Taylor III . Herbet F. Theis . Roy F. Toenies . James L. Tuma, Jr. . Farron Turner . George Porter Turner . William M. Vanden Brook . Raymond C. Van Wasson . Thomas I. Walsh, Jr. . Frank Handy Ward . William F. Washburn . Robert Orville Watkins . Arthur D. Webber . Charles L. Wescott . Donald Wetherbee . Joseph T. Whitaker . Robert H. Wilkening . Edwin V. Williams . John T. Williams . Richard Williamson, Jr. . Charles W. Willis, Jr. . John Murray Wilson . Robert N. Winslow, Jr. . Richard K. Wirt . Raymond Bruce Wishard . Elmer J. Wood . R. Gayle Wood . Richard Younglove . George W. Zeutschel , , Korea , 1950-1955 , Ivan G. Anderson, Jr. . Thomas A. Baldwin, Jr. . Joseph M. Becker . Ralph E. Chute . James H. Fomond . Jared W. Fox III . Dower Laranza Griffin, Jr. . Houston C. Hayward . Willard Boyden Horn . Bryant E. Judson, Jr. . Noble Raymond Kean . Kenneth Albert Krieman . Eugene G. Leider . David Marye . James Maurice McCabe . William Watt McKellar . Gregory T. McLean . Charles Richard O'Keefe . Raymond E. Orsetti . Baltimore Payne . William A. Pearson, Jr. . Howard W. Ramser, Jr. . Eugene F. Ryan, Jr. . Willard A. Sampson . Frank Lyman Schlabach, Jr. . Raymond Schumer . Edward A. Shine . Richard Sherwin Streeter . Henry C. Tilden II . Thomas Grant Ware, Jr. . Spencer R. Watt . Roger Wilde, Jr. . Joseph R. Zich, Jr. , , Vietnam , 1964-1973 , Michael Francis Anderson . Stephen Arthur Anderson . John Richards Babcock . Joseph Henry Byrne . Michael Charles Doyle . Barry Frank Fivelson . James E. Fuller . Steven Carl Gassen . Michael Leroy Hanson . Allan Joseph Herman . Clayton Winslow Johnson . Robert George Keats . Nelson Sayler Lehman, Jr. . Andrew Zbigniew Lisowski . George Duncan MacDonald . Louie Junnie McFarland . Gary Jon Meyer . Albert Jean Mitchell . Robert Miller Scott . William Patrick Weimer . Lee Owens White, Jr. , , Operation Enduring Freedom , 2001-2014 , Matthew Charles Hays Freeman , , April 27, 1951. Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army, placed a wreath on this site, honoring Evanston's war casualties with these words: , , I do not know the dignity of these men's births but I do know the glory of their death. They died that this nation and all the things it stands for shall not perish from this earth.
They gave their lives in war that we might live in peace
Civil War
1861-1865
Alfred R. S. Bailey George R. Cluff Joseph R. Edsall George Gamble Walter J. Kennicott
Alphonso C. Linn Eugene A. Lyford Henry G. Meacham William Pratt James Roseman Charles H. Shepley William E. Smith Edgar E. Wead
Spanish American War
1898-1898
Frederick O. Brown William C. Bryant Arthur T. Cooper Frank W. Foster Robert B. Gushwa James M. Jewell George O. Hoover
World War I
1917-1918
Ernest Adams Emery Bartlett Clarence Bates Merrill Blanchard Oscar W. Bloomquist Oliver B. Cunningham Paul Dale Russell J. Dills Max Doris William Eastman, Jr. Alvin Fingal Hugh Fulton Thomas Henry Garnett Wayman Guinn John B. Guthrie Warren Hauser Lewis Charles Heppner Edward Hines, Jr. Frank J. Hoeynick William Johnson Thomas King Paul K. Le Baron Andrew Letzer Albert Edgar Lowe John Mathieson Hugh A. McKenna Edward William Newman Sisto Parenti Frank Bennett Parkhurst Morton Peterson William Smith Pettit Frances Poole Carl O. Rosequist John A. Schaefer
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John Nicholas Schutz Frank L. Seery Enoch N. Severin Jouett F. Singleton Jacob T. Slaate Arvid Sternquist Lawrence Tower Thomas Bestor Vanevery Albert Vetter George C. West Horace E. Wood Helen B. Wood
World War II
1941-1946
Frederick T. Albanese
Joseph Stark Alex
Robert Edwin Allen Elvin L. Anderson, Jr. George L. Anderson Oskar Anderson Raymond A. Anderson John Corby Andrae Robert Yarnell Bair Gordon G. Baker Thomas A. Baldwin Pierre Robert Bancel William Peter Barg Raymond A. Barker Robert Chamberlain Barnard Robert Bergendorff Andrew J. Berner, Jr. Fred L. Blake James K. Bowman John E. Bradstreet, Jr. Byron C. Bramble Robert L Branch William Brownholtz Denford Brumbaugh John S. Burchmore, Jr. William Elmo Burdette Spencer Otis Burnham John E. Byrnes Jack G. Campbell Robert H. Capitain Frank Davis Case, Jr. Ronald D. Chalmers Carl Chase, Jr. Harry Guy Chase, Jr. Harald J. Christopher Joseph John Clarke John Dutton Conway Earl Walter Cook John Cowan Cooper, Jr. Henry Barnett Cowap David C. Cox John A. Crawford Charles Cressy
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, May 25, 2025
2. Fountain Square
James A. Danforth John B. Davies William H. Dawson Joseph J. Dennison, Jr. John C. Dillon, Jr. John Stephens Donovan Jerome G. Downey Philip R. Downey William Burns Downey Jack Richard Dupuis William F. Eadie Arthur R. Easingwood Willard Eichelberg Andrew O. Eilertsen George William Endicott Edward H. Endler Robert Hayes Ennis William Epperson Philip A. Erby Thomas Warren Erickson Harry Duncan Fisher Albert R. Fleischmann, Jr. Leonard L. Forsland Richard M. Foss David Gleason Foster George Vincent Foy, Jr. Frank F. Frazier James Stewart Freeman Rodney E. Gaumnitz George Gellas, Jr. Herbert Kemp Gilbert Daniel Goodman George O. Griffith Norman Bertrand Griggs Lyman Grover Herbert E. Guenther Alfred Gulder Charles Eldar Halvorsen Robert W. Hankner Robert Edward Hanna Glenn Robert Hansen John R. Heckman William Frank Hess, Jr. Charles D. Hill Richard E. Hochschild Howard Q. Hofmann Gordon Phillips Hoover Robert H. Houlette Theodore R. Howe Marvin L. Hull William Donald Jaeger Ben James Cyrus F. Jennings John A. Johnson John Evert
Courtesy of Northwestern University Libraries, circa 1920
3. Fountain Square (1920)
This postcard shows the historic fountain square, before the first war memorial was added here in 1949.
Johnson Norman Lewis Johnson, Jr. Robert Oliver Jorgesen Robert P. Kaen Jr. Adolph K. Kaufman Thomas George Kees III Eugene F. Kelly George A. Kenneley, Jr. Albert S. Kimmell, Jr. Rexford R. Kinsley Robert W.. Kittredge Robert Bruce Klemola Stanley Klores Ernest J. Knodel Lyle Wesley Koch Paul John Krause Philip Boone Kreischer Alex C. Kuk Maurice Campbell Lair William W. Lamar George W. Lane Fred J. Lange, Jr. Florian Laramore, Jr. Albert T. Lindemann Carl E. Lindquist Robert Banderet Long Algie Lovett Charles D. McAleer Donald Patrick McDonald Donald McDougall Arthur McDuffie Maurice I. McElligott Leroy J. McFaul Janiel McMiller Frank Angus McNally, Jr. Richard Delzell Mather William C. Miller Donald Minnick Thomas Alva Mottram Carl F. Mountain Edwin S. Myerson, Jr. Eleanor Campbell Nate Joseph C. Nate Harvey Ingo Nitz Lawrence H. Noel Jack C O'Brien Raymond W Olsen Robert L. Overholser James Roy Ozanne, Jr. Sherwood J. Palmer Warren A. Palmer John Graham Patterson Clayton B. Pearson Donald Danforth Perry Francis L. Peterson Ivar L. Peterson Thomas G. Pfiffner Charles William Pflager, Jr. Jack Carlton Phelps John Bradford Phillips John Paul Phillips Eugene C. Piasecki Walter P. Piehl Felix H. Pientka Samuel Pohn Harry Puls Irwin William Redemann Charles Haun Reynolds Charles Richard Rhein William Henry Rhodes Silas G. Richards Walter James Richards, Jr. Donald Stried Rocke Judson Rollert Raymond E. Roth John J. Rubo Norman A. Ryan Richard D. Sampson John R. Sawyer Joe J. Schabinger Raymond George Schmitz William A. Schobert, Jr. Howard E. Seefurth, Jr. Newton Jere Selover James Keller Sellon Ralph D. Shanesy, Jr. John Jerome Shockey Eugene Blake Slocum Leopold Joseph Smernoff Robert W. Smith William Henry Smith, Jr. William Benjamin Snell George Sollitt Donald Southworth Thomas L. Spoerer Roy Steffey, Jr. Arvid E. Sternquist James H. Stewart John G. Stubbs, Jr. Raymond Stults Frank A. Swanson Charles Alfred Taylor II William Byford Taylor III Herbet F. Theis Roy F. Toenies James L. Tuma, Jr. Farron Turner George Porter Turner William M. Vanden Brook Raymond C. Van Wasson Thomas I. Walsh, Jr. Frank Handy Ward William F. Washburn Robert Orville Watkins Arthur D. Webber Charles L. Wescott Donald Wetherbee Joseph T. Whitaker Robert H. Wilkening Edwin V. Williams John T. Williams Richard Williamson, Jr. Charles W. Willis, Jr. John Murray Wilson Robert N. Winslow, Jr. Richard K. Wirt Raymond Bruce Wishard Elmer J. Wood R. Gayle Wood Richard Younglove George W. Zeutschel
Korea
1950-1955
Ivan G. Anderson, Jr. Thomas A. Baldwin, Jr. Joseph M. Becker Ralph E. Chute James H. Fomond Jared W. Fox III Dower Laranza Griffin, Jr. Houston C. Hayward Willard Boyden Horn Bryant E. Judson, Jr. Noble Raymond Kean Kenneth Albert Krieman Eugene G. Leider David Marye James Maurice McCabe William Watt McKellar Gregory T. McLean Charles Richard O'Keefe Raymond E. Orsetti Baltimore Payne William A. Pearson, Jr. Howard W. Ramser, Jr. Eugene F. Ryan, Jr. Willard A. Sampson Frank Lyman Schlabach, Jr. Raymond Schumer Edward A. Shine Richard Sherwin Streeter Henry C. Tilden II Thomas Grant Ware, Jr. Spencer R. Watt Roger Wilde, Jr. Joseph R. Zich, Jr.
Vietnam
1964-1973
Michael Francis Anderson Stephen Arthur Anderson John Richards Babcock Joseph Henry Byrne Michael Charles Doyle Barry Frank Fivelson James E. Fuller Steven Carl Gassen Michael Leroy Hanson Allan Joseph Herman Clayton Winslow Johnson Robert George Keats Nelson Sayler Lehman, Jr. Andrew Zbigniew Lisowski George Duncan MacDonald Louie Junnie McFarland Gary Jon Meyer Albert Jean Mitchell Robert Miller Scott William Patrick Weimer Lee Owens White, Jr.
Operation Enduring Freedom
2001-2014
Matthew Charles Hays Freeman
April 27, 1951. Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army, placed a wreath on this site, honoring Evanston's war casualties with these words:
I do not know the dignity of these men's births but I do know the glory of their death. They died that this nation and all the things it stands for shall not perish from this earth.
Erected 2018 by City of Evanston.
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Heroes • Military • Peace.
Location. 42° 2.825′ N, 87° 40.896′ W. Memorial is in Evanston, Illinois, in Cook County. It is at the intersection of Orrington Avenue and Davis Street, on the left when traveling north on Orrington Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Evanston IL 60201, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Chicago. It is also in the American Midwest and on the Great Lakes. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
More about this memorial. Fountain Square was first considered for a war memorial after World War I, but opposition to removing the namesake fountain led to Evanston's first war memorial being erected about five blocks east of here in Patriots Park. Listing the names of the city's war dead between the Civil War and World War I, that memorial flagpole still stands today.
In 1949, the fountain was finally replaced with a new war memorial that listed all of the city's war dead through World War II; as noted on this modern memorial, Gen. Douglas MacArthur visited that memorial in 1951 and placed a wreath there. In 1976, the memorial was placed in storage and replaced by brick columns with bronze plaques with an updated list of the city's war dead through Vietnam. By the 2010s, the square had fallen into disrepair, and the city began renovations that included a new veterans memorial wall and water features that link it to its past as the home to a fountain. The wall opened in 2018.
Regarding Fountain Square Veterans Memorial Wall. The last person on this list, Matthew Charles Hays Freeman, died in Afghanistan in August of 2009.
Also see . . . The Birth and Rebirth of Fountain Square. The Evanston Round Table looks at the 150-year history of Fountain Square in downtown Evanston. (Submitted on May 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)
Credits. This page was last revised on May 27, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 201 times since then and 43 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on May 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.
