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From: Terry Huff <>
Subject: Re: CARIVERS-D Digest V04 #3
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:43:51 -0800
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I am a Life Member of the DAV, and have belonged to Riverside Chapter
28, (which is named after Charlotte Faye), for over 20 years..
I hadn't heard of this Group before. Wonder if its a group from WW I or
WW II?
D. 'Terry" Huff

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>CARIVERS-D DigestVolume 04 : Issue 3
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>hi everyone, I ran accross this in my grandparents papers and thought maybe
>someone would be interested or even know about this group:
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>It was called the last mans club.46 members joined the club at it's
>formation, no new ones are to be added and members drop out only at death. An empty
>chair is present at every meeting in token of the forty seventh member, death.
>you had to have been a veteran disabled in the line of duty while serving the
>armed forces of the United States during the World war, [WW 1 or before] Heres a
>list of the men who belonged to the Last Mans Club: all of Riverside Ca.,
>Charles F. Bryson, J.A. Haefner, A. H. F. Ultzen, Clifford Lockyer, John H.
>Piper, G.A. Broesamle, Harry P. Ohlin, William E. Nelson, Nicholas Seipel, John E.
>Shafer, James G. Swope, William R. McGlumphy, Soren C. Sorensen, Harry J.
>Nejedlo, Michael Temple, Harry A. Monson, Leonard Carter, C.S. Bullock, Charles B.
>Burns, Earl G. Miller, William H. Carson, Aden Clarde, Edwin U. Gardner, Earl
>A. Stewart, George B. Randall, Cleo Whittlesey, Ned B. Hogmire, Hugh Harrell,
>Herschel Woodring, Roy L. Wolfe, John F. Burke, Geo. D. Gochenour, Myron
>Fawcett, Fuiseppe Panttoni, George Skotty, Allan Stevens, Ellery D. Francisco,
>Paul G. Allen, Ralph L. Smith, Mike Bealer, Louis B. Schulte, Joseph Dempsey,
>Leland E. Wright, William C. Malsbury, W. L. Luttrell and Glen F. Balding
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>They held a meeting once a year. As members died other vacant chairs would
>surround the banquet table. It goes on to list the youngest member, the oldest
>member and the members who have been decorated with the order of the purple
>heart for war deeds. There is a picture included of the men up to Myron Fawcett.
>Everyone listed after him was absent that night.
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