Students and Alumni of the University of Nevada (Reno) WW I Deaths

WORLD WAR I
THE GOLD STAR ROLL OF THE University of Nevada 1914-1918
Alumni and Students

"In the morning glow of early manhood, these men gave their lives for their country. Let their names be here
enrolled in recognition that they served, even unto death in supreme ' Spirit of the Oath '. "

NAME:	CLASS:	HOME:
Carl G. BEARUP	1919	Doyle, California
Kenneth C. BOOTH	1908	San Francisco, California
Daniel Eldred BRUCE	1912	Reno, Nevada
Darrell M. DUNKLE	1917	Reno, Nevada
Thomas H. EDSALL	1920	Dansville, New York
William Melvin ELLITHORPE	1913	Reno, Nevada
Edwin F. FABER	1916	Peoria, Illinois
Charles Frank HOBBINS	1911	Reno, Nevada
John L. MacIVER	1917	Bishop, California
Charles Harold McCARTHY	1922	Fallon, Nevada
Edward G. NORTH	1917	Los Angeles, California
John O' DOWDA	1920	Honolulu, I. H.
Roscoe C. OLDS	1917	Merced, California
Sam Hermanson OPDAL	1919	Tuscarora, Nevada
Ferney G. SNARE	1919	Reno, Nevada
Neil E. TAYLOR	1919	Reno, Nevada
Walter H. WISE	191	New Haven, Connecticut

Source: Doten, Samuel Bradford. An Illustrated History of the University of Nevada. Carson City: University of Nevada, 1924. [p. 218].

Additional Notes and Sources:

NAME:	Notes:
Carl G. BEARUP	He was a sergeant and was on the California WW I Honor Roll -Died from an accident. ¹(or a private²).
Kenneth C. BOOTH	----
Daniel Eldred BRUCE	Born: 05-Nov-1891 in Aspen, Colorado. He was an assayer & chemist for United Eastern Mines Co. in Oatman, Arizona when he enlisted. He was single and was a major of cadets for four years at the University of Nevada [Reno]. ³
Darrell M. DUNKLE	American Legion Post #1 in Reno, Nevada is named for him. It is the oldest Legionnaire post in Nevada.
Thomas H. EDSALL	A Thomas Henry Edsall, born 05-Oct-1895 in Cripple Creek, Colorado registered on 05-June 1917 in Rochester, Humboldt, NV. he was a Mine Surveyor there and had 2 years as a corporal in the infantry with the Nevada cadets (possibly at the university?)⁴
William Melvin ELLITHORPE	Born 07-'Feb-1889 in Ouray, Colorado, he was a Truck driver for Associated Oil Company in Reno, NV when he enlisted on 04-June-1917. He was married at the time.⁵His wife was Lucy Rumbaugh, whom he married in July 1915.
Edwin F. FABER	He was born in Feb. 1891 in Illinois. He was a history major and a junior at the University in 1915.⁶
Charles Frank HOBBINS	Lieutenant Hobbins was killed in action on September 30, 1918 in France. He had graduated from Mackay School of Mines, Univ. of Nevada, class of 1911. Born on 04-Aug-1889. He was the 2^nd officer from Reno to have died in action to-date.⁷
John L. MacIVER
Charles Harold McCARTHY	a.k.a. Harold Charles McCarthy, born 08-May 1900 in Fallon, Nevada. He was a student at the University of Nevada when he registered on 18-Sep 1918.⁸ He died Saturday, 07-Dec-1918 at the University of Utah soldiers' camp. (He is listed here as a native of California).⁹
Edward G. NORTH	Edward Guy North, born 25 June 1890 in Newhall, CA, was a laborer at the Tonopah Belmont Development Co. in Tonopah, Nevada where he registered in June 1918.
John O' DOWDA	----
Roscoe C. OLDS	Roscoe Cedric Olds was born 06-July-1889 in Merced, CA. he was a Mechanic's helper in Seattle, WA when he registered for WW I on 05-Jun-1917.¹⁰
Sam Hermanson OPDAL	He was born 31-Jan-1885 and was a citizen of Norway. he was a mining engineer for Nevada Con. Copper Co. in Ruth, Nevada when he registered for WW I on 12-Sep-1918 in Ely, NV.¹¹ He died 09-Dec-1918 at Fort Douglas, Utah, an army training camp at the University of Utah on 09-Dec-1918. He had taken a special course in mining engineering at the University of Nevada. He contracted influenza and then pneumonia which caused his death. He was a native of Bergen, Norway.¹²
Ferney G. SNARE	Ferney George Snare was born 27-Mar-1893 in Keosaugua, Iowa. He was a ranch hand in Ruby Valley, Elko county, NV for John Aden Sharp when he registered for WW I draft on 5-Jun-1917. He had three years cadet training at the University of Nevada.¹³
Neil E. TAYLOR	He died at Fort Rosecrans near San Diego, CA on July 21, 1917. He had enlisted in the regular army. He had been ill for several days prior to his death. His father, L. H. Taylor, was a Reno engineer.¹⁴
Walter H. WISE	----

Source Citations:

Source: www. GenealogyImagesOfHistory . com / bd-beau.htm.
Source: Haulsee, W..M., comp., Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, D.C.: Soldiers Record, 1920. (Vol. I, p. 145).
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918. Images at Ancestry . com.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.

"Reno Evening Gazette" (Newspaper), December 06, 1918, page 5.
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918. Images at Ancestry . com.

"Nevada State Journal" (Newspaper), December 10, 1918, p. 8.
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918. Images at Ancestry . com.
Ibid.

"Nevada State Journal" (Newspaper), December 7, 1918, p. 8.
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918. Images at Ancestry . com

"Reno Evening Gazette" (Newspaper), July 21, 1917, p. 6.

Transcribed by: Holly Hart, October 2008.