The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-10
DISTRICT NUMBER TWO
CtRT|F!tS FIRST LIST
Chairman Ellerson Responds to Gall
From Crowier With Fifty
Nine Men.
FIRST IN STATE TO ANSWER
WITH MEN FOR NEW ARMY
List Certified to Is Composed OF TWEEN
ty-one White and Thirty-eight Col
ored Men. Physically FIT and Claim
ing No Exemption.

In instant response To ONpSh Wal
shall General Crowder's request, Fl.
Watkins Eilerson. chairman of the
exemption board of Division No. 2,
yesterday morning certified a list OF
fitty-nine men pronounced physically
perfect and claiming no exemptions
from the draft.
The orders came by wire from
Washington and specified that one
third OF the quota apportioned each
district should be certified to and the
list forwarded to Washington to await
action OF the provost marshal. who
will call them to the colors on Sep
tember 1. BY this time the canton
ment camps will be fully prepared
to provide for the first quota to be
thrown into intensive training. which
Is expected to number 100000 men
With this number, the number OF
men under the colors of the United
States will be in excess of one MIL
lion.
/ First to Answer.
I Division No. 2 was the first In the
state to answer the request from
/ Washington. The full quota Is IT:
and Chairman Ellerson said yesterda,
quota from the first 500 men called
! This will necessitate the refusal o.
many of the pleas for exemption.
I Division No. has completed the
work of examining its first quota and
has the necessary one-third raised
and ready to go.
| OF the fifty-n!ne men who were
first to be officially recognized as flu
ture soldiers, twenty were white
rand thsrty-e eight colored, This un
usual proportion is due to the ioca
ton of Number division. which 1.
composed largely of Jackson ward
the colored district.
Fffty-nine Certified.
Names of men who constitute frs'
quota furnished by Virginia. Division
No. 2, has the honor of being the firs'
to answer the call. Those marked with
an asterisk are colored.
.Floyd Booker, 100 Williams.
flames Edward Brown, 2226 Wes
Moore.
John. Henry Harris, COS st. Peter.
sDaniel Webster Cooper. 1909 Yves
Leigh.
.George Washington Jones. 131:
West Leigh.
i Vincent Grande. AIS West Marshall
II George Woodhn. so7 West Clay
h .Robert Randolph White. 1871
Boyd.
Henry John schaerer, 1918 Yves
Clay.
Canton McFarley. 4is North Madi
son.
.william Henry Redd. 900 NORTH
First
I .Marvel Marrow, 7os IL Catherine
.Henry r. Manning, r. F, D. No. 9
South Richmond.
.Oliver Branch. I'LL West Leigh
flames Henry Thornton, 7l2 NUN
ford.
.Floyd OVERLY. 11o2 st. Peter.
ANDREW Poindexter. 1902 st. John
RAYMOND w. Mills. A. c. l. r. X,
Wilmington. \, c.
ford. ,~ Wa
arthur Lee Hickman. l4o7 Yves
Leigh.
.Monroe oswald Robinson, lila -
West Moore.
.Joseph Taylor. 51s Kenney.
Harry Hamill Augustine. 1904 stu
art avenue
Lloyd Chamberlin Taylor. lol
West avenue.
nathaniel Ellis, 1872 Pulliam.
John Elike Purks, l714 West Mar
shall.
sCharles Robert Gathright, 49,
West Hill. o
Russell James Brooks. 1915 Yves
Clay.
Henry William Baltz. 700 Yves
Clay.
.william Augustine Boiling. 81
ST. Paul.
James Edward Hargrave. 1912 l.
Hickory
John Percy Henderson. 4o1 Yves
Grace.
Philip Eisfeld Strauss. 2sls Monu
ment avenue.
.Fred Gray, Jr., 1923 St. John.
.Freeman Frazier. Jr., East Leigh
flames Harry Farmer. 5l3 Nortl
Second.
oscar Scott, COS st. Paul.
Anthony Joseph Monahan, Jr
10l6-A West Clay.
eddie Bruce Thompson. 1o5 Yves
Jackson.
STANLEY Jackson, 4oS West Duva
Raymond Clement Mahoney. 100
West Marshall
.Page Braxton, 1924 West Leigh.
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