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The service record. Isabelle H. Taylor (Mrs. Samuel R. Taylor), editor, History of Allen County in the World War. Fort Wayne: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1920. Sixteen volumes: Volume 1 narrates the county's war work; Volumes 2–16 hold the individual service records of 3,500 Allen County soldiers, sailors and marines, alphabetical by surname. Prepared under the Indiana Historical Commission as a permanent memorial. Open at the Internet Archive and at FamilySearch.
What it proved here: Taylor's set is the named-individual backbone of the First World War leg — Battery D of the 150th Field Artillery as the hometown unit, the named Gold Star dead, the home-front machinery — and its compiler is the same Mrs. Taylor who wrote the township chapters of Griswold's Volume I. A county that published 3,500 of its own service records in 1920 left its later historians no excuse for vagueness about that war.
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- The wars leg, the Story of Fort Wayne section.