Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1918 — MARINE KILLED FIGHTING FOE [ARTICLE]

MARINE KILLED FIGHTING FOE

SERG. STEPHEN G. SHERMAN DIES WHILE HELPING TO STEM GERMAN ADVANCE. ■ a Sergeant Stephen G. Sherman, 22 years old, was killed in action June 7, according to a War Department message received last night by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Sherman, 1811 Colfax avenue south. He was a member of Company 20, Fifth regiment, of the Marine corps. Recent letters from Sergeant Sherman said that he had been shifted from the Toul sector to the more active front to help the French stem the German advance. Sergeant Sherman was4i junior in the Agricultural college at the University of Minnesota. He enlisted April 10, 1917, four days after the United States declared war. From Minneapolis he weht with 300 other volunteers to the Marine corps training station at Mare Island, California, a week after entering the service.

Later* Sergeant Sherman was shifted to Quantico, Va.', and went overseas August 21. On arrival in France he was assigned to the Thirtieth company, which was preparing to patrol Paris, after the Headquarters company had been merged with it. He held rank of sergeant, but acceipted a reduction to “that of private so he could join the rest of the regiment about to enter the trenches. ’ Later he received a permanent warrant appointing him sergeant in the Twentieth company. Besides his parents, Sergeant Sherman leaves four brothers. They are Ralph, Everett and Fred Sherman, of Minneapolis, and Lloyd Sherman living on a farm near Hudson, Wis. He was the youngest son and had lived in Minneapolis all his life. He was a graduate of Whittier grade school and Central high school. —Minneapolis, (Wis.), Morning Tribune.