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Elmer Lathrop

Era:1910s
State:Iowa
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Footnote 25 describes Lathrop, a Minneapolis Pentecostal draft resister, receiving a ten-month sentence to jail in Knoxville, Iowa. After the Army rejected him, he returned to jail. The source establishes actual confinement but provides no exact admission, discharge or verified total service. William R. Douglas, The Germans Would Court-Martial Me, Too: St. Paul’s World War I Socialist Draft Resisters, Minnesota History 55(7), Fall1997 pp286–301, original PDF page 12. Source: https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/55/v55i07p286-301.pdf#page=12

Case

Charges: World War I draft resistance
Sentence: Footnote 25 describes Lathrop, a Minneapolis Pentecostal draft resister, receiving a ten-month sentence to jail in Knoxville, Iowa. After the Army rejected him, he returned to jail. The source establishes actual confinement but provides no exact admission, discharge or verified total service. William R. Douglas, The Germans Would Court-Martial Me, Too: St. Paul’s World War I Socialist Draft Resisters, Minnesota History 55(7), Fall1997 pp286–301, original PDF page 12. Source: https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/55/v55i07p286-301.pdf#page=12