Biography
Vernis Kitterman was a Quaker conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 20 years in prison (not reduced?). (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered for draft on June 5, 1917, as a C.O.; assigned to Medical Department, Camp Sherman (Chillicothe, Ohio), Headquarters Camp Sherman, Oct. 7, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); interviewed by Bd. on June 26, __ at Sherman; classed by Bd. as 2A; …
Case
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
