Upper row (left to right)-Lieut. Walter Miller, Lieut. Harry Miller, Major Robert Miller.

Lower row (left to right)-Sheriff Milton C. Miller, Deputy Sheriff Arthur Miller.

Each one of these five men, father and four sons, occupied an official capacity, three in military, two in civil life, during the war. Mrs. Miller was matron of the jail, and the Sheriff's only daughter, Mrs. Arthur Marks, was a deputy in her father's office. The family record was so extraordinary that a group photograph was reproduced in Leslie's Weekly Magazine. It was this kind of patriotism that put Wayne county out in front. page 178.

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Commissioned Captain July 20, 1917. Assigned to Fort Reno, Okla., in Remount Service to purchase animals. Assigned December 16, 1917, to Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, Remount Depot Number 325. Sailed overseas March 14, 1918. Assigned to Headquarters Remount Division A. E. F. in charge of Construction and Supplies, Remount Service A. E. F. Promoted to Major October 11, 1918. Returned to United States April 2, 1919. Discharged April 4, 1919.

Mr. Zimmerman was the originator, organizer and leader of The Guard of Honor Drum Corps, which played so large a part in the military parades held in Wooster during the later war months. He devoted much time to training his boys in their patriotic work, and produced a super-excellent organization. (See page 283).

Major Sanitary Corps. Commissioned Feb. 9, 1918; assigned to duty at surgeon general's office, where he studied mineral nutriments of the soldier's diet; then to medical officers' training camp, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., and made instructor in nutrition and officer in charge of school for cooks and bakers, organized under his direction. July 3, 1918, ordered to France; stationed first at Central Medical Department laboratory at Dijon, taking part in field work of the Food and Nutrition section; in September he was sent to the English lines to make a study of their methods of handling rations; October 21 he was assigned as Food and Nutrition inspector for the Intermediate Section, with headquarters at Nevers, giving special attention to food requirements of forestry and engineering troops; was president of a general court-martial there. On request of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Maj. Forbes was returned to the States and honorably discharged in March, 1919.

Mr. Freedlander was one of the county's most active war workers. He was Chairman of the Jewish Welfare League, one of the seven war charity organizations. He was Wooster District chairman in the first Red Cross, and shared with Alvin Rich, the chairmanship of the Wooster city Liberty Loan committees. Full of enthusiasm and optimism, Mr. Freedlander was always ready to carry more than his share of responsibility, and his remarkable personality and qualities of leadership made his services most valuable.