Biography
Morris Franklin was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth; Fort Douglas. Sentenced to 25 years in prison - reduced to 2 years. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered on June 5, 1917, but not as a C.O.; opposed to war on moral & humanitarian grounds; arrived at Camp Meade on Oct. 14, 1917 & assigned to C. D, 304 Eng.; declared a CO on Oct. 26, 1917; interviewed by Bd. on June 6, 1918 at Meade, on July 18, 1918 at Leavenworth, and Jan. …
Confirmed Camp Funston guardhouse transfer
The signed report on treatment of conscientious objectors identifies Morris Franklin among those received at the Camp Funston Military Police Guard House on September 27, 1918. This is a confirmed facility receipt, not an independently established new arrest or beginning of all imprisonment. The September 5 and September 27 groups explicitly came from the Fort Riley guardhouse. The report names Franklin in the October 6–8 forced-shower and hunger-strike accounts and describes repeated collapses. A passage prints Franking, followed by Franklin in the same incident; this apparent source typographical variation is not added as a separate person. The report covers events through October 21 but does not supply an individual discharge date. Existing original-admission, release, sentence and total-duration fields are not replaced by this receipt date or calculated from a military sentence.
