Veterans' Memorial Project

Lewis Vinton Manspeaker
Champaign, IL

Photo of Lewis Vinton Manspeaker

World War I

College: Engineering
Graduation Year: 1909
Service branch: Army
Rank: Captain
Date of Birth: 5/26/1887
Date of Death: 2/8/1918

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Captain Manspeaker served with the engineering officers' reserve corps. He had been commissioned December 27, 1917. He was the first graduate of the College of Engineering to die in World War I and the 8th Illinois soldier to die in the war. Captain Manspeaker had been stationed at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, and died there of pneumonia.

-taken from Illinois Alumni News, February 15, 1918, and March 1, 1918