MS-159

MS-159

 

CALEB WORLEY ORR SCRAPBOOK COLLECTION

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The Caleb Worley Orr Scrapbook was accessioned into the Flesh Public Library Archives and Special Collections c. 1986.  The donor and the author of the scrapbook are not identified.  The scrapbook was created from a large blank ledger book.  The scrapbook consists of 115 pages of photographs, letters, announcements, invitations, and newspaper clippings.  The earliest date of material in the scrapbook which can be determined is 3 April 1907.  The latest date which can be determined is December 1918.  The scrapbook is concerned with events in the life of Caleb Worley Orr in the years 1907-1918.

 

The scrapbook covers the period in which Mr. Orr was a student at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire and then at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (Class of 1912).  Mr. Orr was then a businessman in Piqua after his years at Dartmouth and the scrapbook concerns itself with his social life as a bachelor member of Piqua society and of The Piqua Club.  When the United States entered World War I, Mr. Orr volunteered for service with the army, went through officer training and was assigned to the 314th Supply Train and served in France.  His service in World War I where he rose to the rank of Captain marks the conclusion of the scrapbook.

 

The collection is housed in one 12”x15”x10” Gaylord box.  The collection is divided into 34 files with each file holding the materials from two to eight pages of the scrapbook.  The files are arranged in order by scrapbook page number and a copy of the original pages is located with the materials from those pages in each file.  A copy of the entire scrapbook is housed in file 34.

 

The scrapbook is useful to record the life of upper class Piqua society in the period 1910-1920.  The ownership and copyright to these materials rests with the Flesh Public Library.  There are no restrictions on the use of these materials.

 

HISTORY

 

Caleb Worley (Jake) Orr was born in Piqua 16 January 1886. He was the son of Joshua Williamson Orr and Margaret Henry Orr.  Joshua Williamson Orr was a twin to Caleb Worley Orr (1845-1935) and also the brother of William Perrine Orr [founder of Orr Felt and Blanket Co.].  Mr. Orr attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College.  He is listed in the alumni notes of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity with the class of 1912 but it appears that he did not graduate from Dartmouth.  He served in World War I with the 314th Supply Train in France where he rose to the rank of Captain.  He served in World War II in England.  At the outbreak of World War II he was battalion commander of the Ohio National Guard 137th Division, Field Artillery where he had achieved the rank of Colonel.  Mr. Orr was a businessman in Piqua and was also employed with the State of Ohio Sales Tax Department.

 

In November 1927 Mr. Orr married Carolyn Nutt of Sidney, Ohio in a wedding that took place in Cleveland.  From this union came four children, Margaret (Peggy) Orr who married Robert L. Baker, John P. Orr, Caleb W. Orr Jr., and Earl W. Orr.  Mr. Orr died on 13 August 1966.  Genealogical information on the Orr Family and a box inventory can be found in a folder in the front of the box.

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The collection consists of a single very large scrapbook and is housed in one 12”x15”x10” Gaylord box.  The collection is divided into 34 files with each file holding the materials from two to eight pages of the scrapbook.  The files are arranged in order by scrapbook page number and a copy of the original pages is located with the materials from those pages in each file.  A copy of the entire scrapbook is housed in file 34.

 

CONTAINER LIST

 

BOX 1

 

File    1        Orr scrapbook material page 1:

                   [1] Receipt of payment from Phillips Exeter Academy for

                             Tuition, Room & Board - 3 April 1907,

                   [2] Receipt of payment for medical services from J. M. Gile,

                             M.D., Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover,

                             N.H. - 8 January 1909.

                   [3] Receipt of payment from Mary Hitchcock Memorial

                             Hospital - 8 January 1909.

                   [4] Receipt of payment for “Initiation Fee” - 15 December 1908

                   [5] Caricature of “Jake Orr” by Dr. Stahr

                   [6] Green and white ribbons – Dartmouth Colors

                   [7] 1913 Dartmouth Baseball Team photo

                   [8] Receipt form N. G. Woods & Sons, Jewelers and

                             Silversmiths, Boston, Mass. – 1 July 1907 – sold to Mr.

                             T. A. Wilson

 

File    2        Orr scrapbook materials pages 2 & 3:

                   [1] 1915 Kenyon College Commencement Program

                   [2] Junior Ball, Class of 1915, Kenyon College, dance card and

                             program – 16 June 1914

                   [3] Photograph labeled “Peggy, Cam, Martie, Ebby, Aung” – c.

                             1915

                   [4] Photograph labeled “Kathryn, Heinie” – c. 1900

                   [5] Photograph dated 18 October 1934, Bri-Tone Prints, Denver

                             – man in uniform, possibly Caleb Orr.

 

File    3        Orr scrapbook materials pages 4 & 5:

                   [1] Announcement of Betrothal of Virgil Williams Jorgensen

                             and Florence Jennings Orr.

                   [2] Birth announcement of Marjorie Isarei Keogh – 21

                             September 1914

                   [3] Wedding invitation – Mehitable Odiorne to Holden Spear

                   [4] Wedding announcement – Ruth Katherine Raymer to

                             William Newell Todd – 2 September 1914

                   [5] Page from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine

                   [6] Western Union Night Letter to Caleb Orr from Donald

                             Harper – 22 August 1914

                   [7] Photograph of three children, two girls and a boy c. 1890,

possibly Morgan, Martha and Caleb Orr.

                   [8] Empty envelope from Dayton – 10 September 1914

 

File    4        Orr scrapbook materials pages 6 & 7:

                   [1] Program for “Opera ‘The Lost Princess Bo-Peep’” produced

                             by the City Federation of Women’s Clubs – February 23

                             & 24 (1914)

                   [2] Christmas card from “Roy” – 1914 – mailed from New

                             York City.

                   [3] Invitation to the wedding of Ella Patterson Ramsey to

                             Charles Bruen Mead – 1914

                   [4] Invitation to the wedding of Marie Fitz Randolph to Wesley

                             A. Gilman – 1915 – mailed from New Brunswick, N.J.

                   [5] Christmas card from Jake Reed, Phoenix, Ariz. – 1914

                   [6] Christmas card from Mr. & Mrs. Horace Gabriel Hedges,

                             Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 1914

                   [7] Photograph of a girl and a dog – not identified

                   [8] Photograph of a child – not identified

 

File    5        Orr scrapbook materials pages 8 & 9:

                   [1] Formal invitation from Mr. & Mrs. Leo Flesh for an evening

                             of dancing at the Piqua Club on Tuesday, 29 December

                             (1915)

                   [2] Birth announcement of Helen Tabor mailed from Albany,

                             N.Y. – 1915

                   [3] Hand written invitation for afternoon dancing at the home of

Mr. & Mrs. Harry Brown, 714 N. Wayne – 26 December (1915)

                   [4] Invitation to the annual initiation of the Kenyon Chapter of

                             Alpha Delta Phi, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio – 6

                             February 1915

          `        [5] Photograph of a man (not identified) standing in front of the

                             Moraine Park Station – c. 1915

                   [6] Photograph of a man (not identified) – c. 1915

                   [7] Photograph of a man (not identified) – c. 1915

                   [8] Photograph of three ladies and two men, all in their twenties

                             (not identified) – c. 1915

 

File    6        Orr scrapbook materials pages 10-13:

                   [1] Dartmouth Chapter, Alpha Delta Phi, The Chapter Letter

                             and Alumni List – 1915 – Caleb Worley Orr, Jr., 412

                             Broadway, Piqua, Ohio is listed with the Class of 1912.

                   [2] Program – “First Civic Music League Concert” – 22

                             October 1915 (location probably in Dayton, Ohio)

                   [3] Room charge slip for the Alpha Delta Phi Club for June

                             1915 showing two days at $2 per day.

                   [4] The Piqua Club War Bowling Tournament – 8 November to

                             9 December 1915 – listing teams, team members, and the

                             schedule

                   [5] Business card – The General Printing Co., 114-116 E.

                             Fourth St., Dayton, O. – “A. F. Field” written on the

                             card.

                   [6] Wedding invitation – Muriel Arthur to Harold Rector

                             Trewin – held at Glen Ellyn, Il. – 1915

                   [7] Wedding invitation – Bertha Molly Gellert to Orna W.

                             Lippincott – held at Tippecanoe City, O – 1915

 

File    7        Orr scrapbook materials pages 14-21:

                   [1] Photo of the 1915 Dartmouth football squad

                   [2] Post card, “The road Leading to the Palisades Hotel, Brant

                             Lake in the Adirondacks, N. Y.

                   [3] Program from May’s Opera House, United States Marine

                             Band – 18 November 1915 – afternoon and evening

                             concert to benefit the Boy Scouts – concert sponsored by

                             the Piqua Rotary Club.

                   [4] Christmas post card with the Dartmouth College seal – c.

                             1915

                   [5] Marriage announcement of Margaret Edith Sheridan to

                             Harold Grant Fyfe – 27 October 1915 in Piqua

                   [6] Note from “Connie” – 7 January 1915 – mailed from

                             Oxford, England, U.K.

                   [7] Marriage announcement of Dottie Lydia Thompson to

                             Frederick Whidden Grant – 22 September 1915 in

                             Marshall, Texas

                   [8] Invitation to the annual initiation ceremonies of the

                             Dartmouth Chapter, Alpha Delta Phi – 8 March 1915,

                             Hanover, N.H.

                   [9] Letter from The Piqua Club – 1 November 1915 – “War

                             Order #1, From General Headquarters of the Armies of

                             the War Bowling Tournament . . .”

                   [10] Marriage announcement of Elizabeth Macking Carroll to

                             James Richard Everett – 27 October 1915 in Worcester,

                             Mass.

 

File    8        Orr scrapbook materials pages 22-27:

                   [1] Certificate of membership in “The Assembly Club of the

                             Phillips Exeter Academy” assigned to Caleb Worley Orr.

                   [2] Letter from “Maze” – 18 December 1915 – mailed from

                             Wenatchee, Washington

                   [3] Christmas card from H__ O. I__, mailed 22 December 1915

                             from Goshen, Ind.

                   [4] Christmas card from “Susan” mailed 23 December 1915

                             from Indianapolis, Ind.

                   [5] Invitation from Mrs. Leo Flesh for tea on 1 January (1916)

                             hand delivered

                   [6] Invitation/announcement of a “Soup and Hard Tack Mess

                             and grand review of the armies of the war Bowling

                             Tournament.”  To be held at The Piqua Club – 15

                             December 1915.  The return address on the envelope is

                             The Superior Underwear Co. (mailed by J. E. Bryan,

                             advertising manager at Superior).  The envelope is

                             addressed to “C. W. Orr Jr., who occasionally falls from

                             grace as a soldier, Broadway, City”.

                   [7] Marriage announcement of Lola Jones to Frank Willard

                             Thomas – 10 November 1915 – in Piqua.

                   [8] The Piqua Club War Bowling Tournament Teams and

                             schedule with tournament rules on the back.

                   [9] Photo of a field with a football game in the distance.

                   [10] Photographs of the Davis Library at Phillips Exeter

                             Academy.

                   [11] Photograph of a field and houses.

                   [12] Photograph of a house.

                   [13] Photograph of a team practicing football (possibly Phillips

                             Exeter Academy.

 

File    9        Orr scrapbook materials pages 28-31:

                   [1] New Years greeting from the Warren Lodge, Masonic

                             Lodge – 1916

                   [2] Two red hearts, both with number “11” on them.

                   [3] The Piqua Club Navy Bowling Tournament listing the

                             teams and members, the schedule, and the tournament

                             rules on the back. – 12 January-10 February 1916.

                   [4] Christmas card from Mr. Wilbur Stouder Thompson, mailed

                             from Piqua – 21 December 1915.

                   [5] Wedding announcement of Ethel Ullmann to Forrest

                             Emanuel Kahn – 3 January 1916 in New York City.

                   [6] Invitation to dancing at The Piqua Club from Mr. & Mrs.

                             Theodore Royer and Miss Margaret Royer – 27

                             December 1915.

                   [7] Invitation to The Troy University Club Annual Christmas

                             Cotillion – 28 December 1915.

                   [8] Christmas card from Mr. & Mrs. James Richard Everett,

                             mailed 25 December 1915 from Nashua, North Dakota.

                   [9] Christmas card from Mr. & Mrs. Horace Gabriel Hedges,

                             mailed 20 December 1915 from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

                   [10] Christmas card from Mr. & Mrs. Harry Russell Lontz,

                             mailed 22 December 1915 from Richmond, Ind.

                   [11] Invitation to The Piqua Club New Years Eve – 31

                             December 1915.

                   [12] Christmas card from Paul Zimmerman, mailed from Piqua,                              23 December 1915.

                   [13] Christmas card from the “Tabors Three”, mailed 24

                             December 1915 from New York.

                   [14] Christmas card from “Mildred & Jule”, mailed 23

                             December 1915 from Richmond, Ind.

 

File    10      Orr scrapbook materials pages 32-35:

                   [1] Dartmouth Chapter, Alpha Delta Phi, The Chapter Letter –

                             1916 and a member survey letter.

                   [2] Program, “Forward Piqua” Dinner of the Piqua Chamber of

                             Commerce, 14 February 1916 at Hotel Favorite, menu

                             and program.

                   [3] Alpha Delta Phi Commencement Letter, Kenyon Chapter –

                             31 May 1916

                   [4] “We Have With Us Tonight” – transcript of speeches given

                             to a gathering of members of the underwear industry by

                             Mr. L. M. Flesh, E. A. Todd, A. J. Harwood, all of Atlas

                             Underwear Co.

                   [5] A cardboard bunny rabbit with “Mr. Orr” written on it.

                   [6] Invitation to the Annual Initiation Ceremonies of the

                             Dartmouth Chapter, Alpha Delta Phi, 11 March 1916.

                   [7] Letter from E. J. Graef of Dayton, 30 March 1916 proposing

                             the formation of the “Bachelor’s Protective Association.”

                   [8] Invitation to the Annual Initiation Ceremonies of the

                             Kenyon Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, 5 February 1916.

                   [9] Wedding invitation, Helen Scott Johnston to Charles Louis

                             Hinsch, 25 April (1916) in Terre Haute, Ind. – invitation

                             was hand delivered.

 

File    11      Orr scrapbook materials pages 36-39:

                   [1] Lithograph of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.

                   [2] Wedding invitation, Adelaide Whitman to Brown Van

                             Amee Ralsten, 15 June 1916, at Mostly Hall, Amherst,

                             Mass.

                   [3] Wedding reception invitation, Louise Dickerson Burleigh

                             and Tracy Addison Adams, 28 June 1916, South

                             Berwick, Maine.

                   [4] Invitation for dancing at The Piqua Club, 22 June (1916). 

                             Invitation from Mrs. Nelson.

                   [5] Invitation to a Musicale and Reception at The Piqua Club

                             from Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Kahn and Mr. & Mrs. Forrest

                             E. Kahn, 29 May (1916).

 

File    12      Orr scrapbook materials pages 40-43:

                   [1] Program from Majestic Theatre, Boston for Anna Held in

                             “Follow Me” a musical comedy in three acts.  Week of 7

                             November 1916.

                   [2] Post card “The Yacht Club, Annisquam, Gloucester, Mass.”

                             Card is from “Peggy” – 1916.

                   [3] Photograph of two little girls.

                   [4] Post card photo of Company C, 3rd Regiment at Camp

                             Willis, Columbus, Ohio – 1916.

                   [5] Portrait of a young man (possibly C. W. Orr).

                   [6] Oval photo of a boy.

                   [7] Salutation card from “The Rt. Hon. L. Hampton Hall.

                   [8] Announcement that Henry K. Urion is engaged in the

                             practice of law in Chicago – 1916.

                   [9] Letter from the Dean of Dartmouth College – 5

April 1912.

                   [10] Announcement of the dissolution of of the law firm of

                             Grimm & Trewin and creation of the law firm of Trewin,

                             Simmons & Trewin – 1 September 1916 – in Cedar

                             Rapids, Iowa.

                   [11] Thank You note for a wedding gift of blankets.  Not is

                             from Harry and “Doc” Webb Bickwell.

                   [12] Photograph of two well dressed young men – c. 1916.

                   [13] Photograph of a young lady – c. 1916.

 

File    13      Orr scrapbook materials pages 44-46:

                   [1] “Bulletin of the Phillips Exeter Academy,” March 1909

                   [2] “Bulletin of the Phillips Exeter Academy,” April 1914

                   [3] “Bulletin of the Phillips Exeter Academy,” April 1916

                   [4] Invitation to the wedding of Dolores Laura Atkinson to

                             James Wilson Murray on 29 November (1916) at Hotel

                             Gotham, New York City.

                   [5] Marriage announcement of Margaret Winslow Pope to

                             Gardner Sparhawk Marion, 17 October 1916 in Concord,

                             Mass. 

                   [6] Invitation to the wedding of Lloyd Schafer (female, bride)

                             and Edmund McKendree Hayden on 11 November 1916

                             in Newton, Mass.

                   [7] Marriage announcement of Almira Starr to Gath Freeman

                             on 16 September 1916 in Indianapolis, Ind.

                   [8] Invitation to the wedding of Elizabeth Matilda Davidson

                             and James Robinson Erwin on 11 November 1916 in

                             South Berwick, Maine.

                   [9] Eight photographs of a wedding party – these photos were

                             pasted in the scrapbook on pages 45 & 46 just after the

                             Davidson-Erwin invitation and possibly are of that

                             wedding party.  Mr. Orr may have been a member of the

                             wedding party.

 

File    14      Orr scrapbook materials pages 47-50:

                   [1] The Dartmouth, “Carnival Edition”, 10 February 1917. 

                             Dartmouth College newspaper.

                   [2] The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, “The School and College

                             Life of Judah Dana of the Class of 1795,” by Dr. James

                             A. Spalding ’66, Portland, Maine, pages 155-166.

                   [3] Piqua Club Alleys – Inter-Club Tournament, 1 March 1917. 

                             Cosmopolitan Club vs. Piqua Club.  Two teams from

                             each club are listed along with substitutes and neutrals. 

                             Post card.

                   [4] Piqua Rotary Club – Charity Ball dance card.  Dance held at

                             St. George Hall, 25 January 1917.

                   [5] Invitation from Mrs. George Atkinson Brooks to meet Miss

                             Albertson on Saturday evening.  Dancing at 8:30. 

                             Invitation postmarked 7 Dec. (1916)

                   [6] Invitation from Miss Flesh (possibly Gertrude), Mr. Alfred

                             Flesh, Mr. George Flesh for tea at the Piqua Club, 13

                             December 1916.

                   [7] Thank you note for assistance with the pledging season

                             from Alpha delta Phi Chapter at Dartmouth College –

                             letter dated 4 October 1916.

                   [8] Announcement of marriage of Margaret Louise Stein to

                             Lawrence Alfeld on 14 October 1916, in Cincinnati.  The

                             announcement was addressed to “Mr. Jacob Orr”.

                   [9] Empty envelope addressed to “Mr. Worley Orr” and

                             postmarked New York, N.Y., 4 November 1916.

                   [10] Thank you note for a wedding gift of vases from Lloyd

                             Schafer (female), Newton, Mass., 7 November 1916.

 

 

File    15      Orr scrapbook materials pages 51-54:

                   [1] Flier concerning the fifth class reunion of the Dartmouth

                             College class of 1912.

                   [2] Program and preview from the Fairbanks Theatre for March

                             (1917).

                   [3] Invitation to the Annual Initiation Ceremonies of the

                             Kenyon Chapter of Alpha delta Phi, 9 February 1917.

                   [4] Invitation to a dance at the Richmond, Ind. Country Club on

                             17 January (1917).

                   [5] Invitation to visit Mr. & Mrs. Andrew g. Snyder at their

                             home, 8:30 p.m., 9 January (1917).

                   [6] Marriage announcement of Mary Katherine Armour to

                             Walter Percival Greenwood on 22 December 1917 in

                             Cleveland.

                   [7] Request from Elizabeth Burleigh Erwin to call on her on 26

                             August 1917 – card is mailed from New York City.  A

                             message written on the back of the envelope has bee

                             obscured by glue.

                   [8] Card announcing Mr. Austin Campbell Keough, 974 St.

                             Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.

                   [9] Card from John O. Norris of Troop E, First New York

                             Cavalry N.G., U.S., “The Season’s Greetings from the

                             border.”  Mailed from McAllen, Texas, 2 January 1917.

                   [10] A general note to “Corporal of the Guard, City” (city not

                             identified) to give Lt. Orr all assistance with his supply

                             train, signed, Capt. Charles Smallwood.

                   [11] Poem about getting a commission – dated 25 September

                             1917.

                   [12] Alphabetical roster of 3rd Infantry Company.  Fort

                             Benjamin Harrison Training Camp, Ind.

 

File    16      Orr scrapbook materials pages 55-58:

                   [1] Headquarters, Eighty-ninth Division, Camp Funston,

                             Kansas.  General Order No. 14 – Assignment of officers

                             of the 89th Division.  On page 5 of this document, 1st Lt.

                             Caleb W. Orr is assigned to 314th Supply Train.  On the

                             back is the assignment of 1st. Lt. Orr from Fort Benjamin

                             Harrison to 89th Division at Camp Funston, Fort Riley,

                             Kansas.

                   [2] Special Orders No. 8, 314th Supply Train, U.S.A. – 1st lt.

                             Caleb W. Orr to take command of Company C.

                   [3] Invitation to Annual Initiation Ceremonies of the Dartmouth

                             Chapter Alpha Delta Phi, 27 February 1918.

                   [4] Invitation to the marriage reception of Gertrude Howes

                             Crocker and Lt. Edward Billings Suitwieler, U.S.R. on 16

                             February 1918, at Malden, Mass. – the envelope was

                             marked “Forward 2-16-18.” 

                   [5] Invitation from the Hudson Chapter Alpha Delta Phi to its

                             annual Alumni and Initiation meeting, 23 February 1918.

                   [6] Alpha Delta Phi letter to the alumni of the Dartmouth

                             Chapter.

                   [7] Vaccination Register for Caleb W. Orr.

 

File    17      Orr scrapbook materials pages 59-67:

                   [1] “Map to Illustrate the Offensive of the St. Mihiel Salient.” 

                             Pasted on the back is a newspaper article from 1 October

                             1918 – “Enjoys Trip Into Town, Samuel Louis Writes

                             Parents of Seeing Captain Worley Orr While On Leave.”

                   [2] Permission to allow Capt. Orr to pass through the area of the

178th Infantry Brigade, 5 September 1918.

                   [3] Pass to allow Capt. Caleb Orr, 314th Supply Train to move

in 177th Infantry Brigade area.  On the back is a statement from Quartermaster Camp Funston, Kansas that Capt. C. W. Orr has no unpaid account. 

                   [4] Graduation Invitation from Miss Ruth Rogers, for her

                             graduation from Miss Kendrick’s School in Cincinnati, 6

                             June 1918.

                   [5] Business card – Mary Cathryn O’Rourke, U.S. Signal

                             Corps.

                   [6] Appointment of Capt Caleb W. Orr as Battalion Athletic

Officer – Special Order No. 22.

                   [7] Business card – J. G. Landes with Shockey and Landes,

                             Abilene, Kansas.

                   [8] Isis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the

                             Mystic Shrine, Salina, Kansas, Ceremonial Session, 14

                             May 1918 – Program.

                   [9] 314th Supply Train, U.S.A., Camp Funston, Kansas, Special

                             Orders No. 21, 6 May 1918 – Captain Caleb Orr assigned

                             to a board of officers to screen candidates for the Fourth

                             Officers Training Camp.

                   [10] Final report of the officer review board which met to

                             screen candidates for the Fourth Officer Training Camp. 

                             The candidates are listed in order of merit. 

                   [11] Sender’s copy of a telegram sent to the War Department by

                             Caleb Orr accepting his promotion to Captain in the

                             National Army.

                   [12] 314th Supply Train, Special Orders No. 20 – 4 May 1918

                             granting Capt. Caleb W. Orr ten days leave of absence

                             beginning 1 June 1918.

                   [13] Novice Ribbon.

                   [14] Souvenir Programme and dance card for a military

                             reception and dance – location and date not listed.

                   [15] The Exonian, “Service Section” – newspaper of the

                             Phillips Exeter Academy – 27 March 1918.

 

File    18      Orr scrapbook materials pages 68-75:

                   [1] Newspaper article: “Meuse-Argonne Saw A.E.F. Make

Maximum Effort” – The Stars and Stipes, 27 December 1918.           

                   [2] American Expeditionary Forces Motor Transport School                                   No. 1 certificate to Capt. Orr for completion of a course

                             of instruction in the Department of Field Services.

                   [3] Newspaper article: “C.-in-C. Tells of A.E.F.’s Share in

                             Allied Victory” – The Stars and Stripes, 20 December

                             1918.

                   [4] Capt. Orr’s photo identification card.

                   [5] Coaster from a beer hall in Metz, Germany, c. 1918.

                   [6] Photo of Capt. Orr and a group of officers at a meal in

                             Europe, probably France, c. December 1918.

                   [7] Photo of Capt. Orr, three ladies, and another officer.

                   [8] Photo of Capt. Orr, four other officers, and two men in

                             civilian clothes.

                   [9] Photo of Capt. Orr with same officer and ladies in #7

                             above.

                   [10] Photo of Capt. Orr – duplicate of his identification photo.

                   [11] Photo of Capt. Orr and two ladies.

                   [12] Postcard photo of Capt. Orr with a dog.

                   [13] Photo of a lady also in #7, and #9 above.

                   [14] Photo of two ladies also in #7, #9, and #13 above.

                   [15] Nine photographs of unidentified army officers.

                   [16] Photo of military barracks and a motorcycle.

                   [17] Photo – Christmas Day 1918 in Coblenz, Germany, Lt. Bill

                             Beny and Capt. C. W. Orr.

                   [18] Photo of a French officer in Grenoble, France, c.

                             December 1918

 

File    19      Orr scrapbook materials pages 76 & 77:

                   [1] Capt. Orr and four other officers at a meal.

                   [2] Capt. Orr and two ladies.

                   [3] Three ladies identified a Margarette, Marthe, and Ameline.

                   [4] Photo of a lady.

                   [5] Postcard photo of Capt. Orr and another officer.

                   [6] Photo of military barracks.

                   [7] Two photos of unidentified army officers.

 

File    20      Orr scrapbook materials pages 78 & 79:

                   [1] Unidentified soldier in Piqua.  The Piqua Club is in the

                             background.

                   [2] Lady in Piqua standing beside a car.  She is apparently

                             collecting worn clothing.

                   [3] Unidentified child.

                   [4] Capt. Caleb Worley Orr – formal portrait in uniform.

                   [5] Pvt. George C. Rutan.

                   [6] Pvt. Weller

                   [7] Lt. McGuffey

                   [8] Pvt. Wallace McWilliams

                   [9] Sgt. Russell.

 

File    21      Orr scrapbook materials pages 80 & 81:  Photographs of

                   military men –

                   [1] Pvt. Rafert

                   [2] Pvt. 1st Class Otto M. Kunkle

                   [3] Corp. Charles Lamore Burlingame – St. Louis, Mo.

                   [4] Sgt. Best

                   [5] Will Jackson, Jr. – Keswick, Va.

                   [6] Corp. Ed. W. Walker and Corp. W. F. Stagemeyer

                   [7] Corp. W. F. Stagemeyer

                   [8] Sgt. Earl G. Isquig (2 photos)

 

File    22      Orr scrapbook materials pages 82-85:

                   [1] “The 1912 Reunion Rumpus” – Dartmouth College Class of

                             1912 reunion newspaper – 26 March 1916.

                   [2] “Dartmouth 1912” – green and white ribbon.

                   [3] Greenville Lodge, 143 F. & A. M. Menu – 14 June 1915.

                   [4] Invitation to the wedding of Mildred Louise Hanna to Henry

                             Collins Wight – 16 February 1915 in Dayton, Ohio.

                   [5-11] Photographs of military men:

                   [5] Corp. Phillips, Corp. Goosic, Pvt. 1st Class Herlolsefeimor.

                   [6] Lt. B. W. Wall, 469th Motor Transport co.

                   [7] 1st Sgt. Bruce B. Baker.

                   [8] Sgt. Burton Watkins

                   [9] Pvt. Wolfe (Capt. Orr’s orderly).

                   [10] Albert r. Taylor, Baltimore, Md.

                   [11] Bernard Pickhinkle, Howells, Neb.

 

File    23      Orr scrapbook materials pages 86-89:  Photographs of military

                   men –

                   [1] Corp. Hansen, Pvt. Whiska, Corp. Hoffart, Pvt.

                             Bugenhagen, Pvt. Krenhe, Corp. Donigan, Pvt. Rafert,

                             Pvt. Kruger, all from Pierce County, Nebraska.

                   [2] John J. Sweenict, 2nd Cook

                   [3] Pvt. Sidney N. Wolman

                   [4] Sgt. Edsall

                   [5] Corp. Ralph J. White,

                   [6] Pvt. Wright

                   [7] Pvt. Harry Herlolsefeimor.

                   [8] Henry J. Hoffart, Jr. – Plainview, Neb.

                   [9] Pvt. Kris A. W. Krueger

                   [10] Pvt. Floyd K. Legan – note on the back says that Floyd

                             Legan had an income of $500 per week but does not list

                             the source of that income.

                   [11] Corp. Ben Skeen, Urbana, Ohio

                   [12] 1st Lt. McGuffey, Co. A and 2nd Lt. Wall of Co. 469.

                   [13] A man, a woman, and a dog.  Note on the back of the

                             photo identifies the woman as “Lola.”

 

File    24      Orr scrapbook materials pages 90-93:  Photographs –

                   [1] Margaret M. Cron in the uniform of an enlisted soldier.

                   [2] Soldier not identified

                   [3] Merry Christmas portrait from “Luley”

                   [4] Florence Teron (?)

                   [5] Unidentified child

                   [6] Ella and Henry Warner

                   [7] Florence, friends, ?

                   [8] Florence, Buster Beck (child), Dorothy Morgan, Margaret,

                             Ella

                   [9] Eleano Callahan in background, Elizabeth Smith (?),

                             Charlotte (child), Elnia (?)

                   [10] Girl in nurses outfit

                   [11] Kroger Hills Camp 1918 – lady not identified

                   [12] Margaret and Ella

                   [13] Unidentified young man

                   [14] Two unidentified photos of age 20s ladies.

 

File    25      Orr scrapbook materials pages 94-97 – Photographs:

                   [1] Unidentified army private

                   [2] Unidentified male, formal portrait

                   [3] Unidentified young lady

                   [4] Two older ladies and 3 younger ladies including Margaret

                             and Ella

                   [5] Margaret and Ella

                   [6] Dorothy Dickson (from Oklahoma), Dorothy Cuningham,

                             and others on the beach.

                   [7] Little girl in a hand made army coat and hat.  (See note on

                             the back of the photo.)

                   [8] Henry Warner, Charles Cron, Carol Smith

                   [9] Ellen and Charles

                   [10] Older lady in back of a house with a young lady peeking

                             around the corner.

 

File    26      Orr scrapbook materials page 98:  Formal portrait of Caleb

                   Worley Orr

File    27      Orr scrapbook materials pages 99-101 – These are

                   commercially produced photographs of World War I.  Listed

                   are the titles on the photographs:

                   [1] A Minutes Rest in the Mud (an artillery column).

                   [2] Firing a Heavy C. A. C. (artillery)

                   [3] U.S. troops at Hill 204 – Belleau Wood

                   [4] Nieuport “Chasse” plane

                   [5] Pershing and Joffre, “Smiles of Victory”

                   [6] German cemetery blown up by shell.

                   [7] U.S. artillery moving into position

                   [8] U.S. ships at Brest

                   [9] U.S. Marines in Belleau Wood

                   [10] Clemenceau visiting French aviation camp

                   [11] U.S. troops on way to front.

                   [12] A destroyed Boche stronghold (Somme)

                   [13] Big French searchlight combing the sky for planes

                   [14] Fritz “Fini” near Belloy (Oise).

                   [15] In camp at St. Nazaire

                   [16] French tanks going into line.

 

File    28      Orr scrapbook materials pages 102-105 – These are

                   commercially produced photographs of World War I.  Listed

                   are the titles on the photographs:

                   [1] Capt. Guynemer in full flight

                   [2] Camouflaged French heavy on R.R. car near Vienne-Le-

                             Chateau (Marne)

                   [3] Wiring (barbed) a communication trench (Oise)

                   [4] Occupying a new position

                   [5] U.S. soldiers at Chateau Thierry

                   [6] Marshall Foche and General Pershing at Chaumont –

                             American G. H. Q.

                   [7] Bridge at Chateau Thierry blown up by Americans

                   [8] French “220” trench mortar in action

                   [9] French artillery observation post near Vendresse (Aisne)

                   [10] Tree felled by shell at Pontavert (Oise)

                   [11] German bodies at dugout

                   [12] “Policing Up” – troops washing and getting a haircut

                   [13] German first aid station – Forest of Ourchamf (Oise)

                   [14] On board U.S.S. Rumpler, ready for subs

                   [15] Fourth of July in Paris – 1918

                   [16] Arrival of President Wilson at Brest

                   [17] Explosion of German time bomb in Canbria (Nord)

                   [18] Rheims – cathedral in background

                   [19] Americans attacking at Cantigny lead by French tank

                   [20] French “75” in Abri

                   [21] Comrades in service – soldier and his mules

                   [22] On board the U.S.S. Prometheus

                   [23] French heavy artillery in winter

                   [24] American artillery near Leoncourt (Meuse)

                   [25] French Gredadiers (Marne)

                   [26] Hillside encampments

                   [27] At practice with R.C. dogs in the trenches near Luippes

                             (Marne)

                   [28] French troops going to front line thru communications

                             trench.

                   [29] Three beans in a messkit (three soldiers eating)

 

File    29      Orr scrapbook materials pages 106-107 – These are

                   commercially produced photographs of World War I.  Listed

                   are the titles on the photographs:

                   [1] U.S. soldiers manning a captured German machine gun

                   [2] Lake Longemer – dinner at an American camp

                   [3] Heavy German guns captured by English

                   [4] Dead Boche at mouth of Abri

                   [5] Near Soissons: German machine guns after the fight

                   [6] Alsatian girls

                   [7] Machine gun on Nieuport “Chasse” plane

                   [8] German plane brought down near Nesle (Somme)

                   [9] Remains of R.R. bridge over Marne near Chateau Thierry

                   [10] French “Caudron” plane

                   [11] Inflating a French “sausage” (barrage balloon)

                   [12] Night flight at le Bourget

                   [13] Roye (Somme)

                   [14] Abandoned German “Chasse” plane

                   [15] Ham – Rue de Chauny

                   [16] Camouflaged German battery near Ostend

                   [17] Ruined homes near Chateau Thierry

                   [18] French tank leading an attack along the Marne.

 

File    30      Orr scrapbook materials pages 108-109 – These are

                   commercially produced photographs of World War I.  Listed

                   are the titles on the photographs:

                   [1] Ruins of a church at Abliain St. Nazaire (P de C)

                   [2] Everything needed to whip the Hun (soldiers marching

                             down a street)

                    [3] Street in Noyon mined by Germans

                   [4] Arriving at Brest (soldiers marching down a street)

                   [5] Receiving instruction in the use of rifle grenades

                   [6] U.S. troops repairing road blown up by Germans

                   [7] Mess time

                   [8] Bridge at Mousson

                   [9] Toul – French “Chasse” plane ready for flight

                   [10] Chateau Thierry

                   [11] U.S.S. Rambler with anti-sub gun and depth bombs at

                             Brest

                   [12] Interior view of the Rheims Cathedral

                   [13] Studying his French (soldier sitting with a book)

                   [14] End of bridge at Chateau Thierry blown up by Americans

                             during the German drive.

                   [15] Practical use made of Boche helmet (soldier using it as a

                             wash basin)

                   [16] Americans in attack close to Cantigny

                   [17] Remains of Boche

                   [18] Moving into an advanced position (soldiers moving thru

                             the trenches)

                   [19] A steaming field kitchen headed toward the front.

                   [20] U.S.S. Lianga at Bordeaux

                   [21] French wounded awaiting evacuation at Fort de Tavanne

                   [22] French artillery observation post

 

File    31      Orr scrapbook materials pages 110-111 – These are

                   commercially produced photographs of World War I.  Listed

                   are the titles on the photographs:

                   [1] Camouflaged road near Livry Sur Vesle (Marne)

                   [2] Street in Rheims after bombardment

                   [3] A “370” in action (heavy trench mortar)

                   [4] Allies (U.S. soldiers and French children)

                   [5] Belleau Wood – Germans after the fight (German dead)

                   [6] A friendly game

                   [7] Quartermaster issue of clothes (2 photos)

                   [8] Marines encamped

                   [9] U.S. trench mortar

                   [10] Arrival of a Division’s artillery bound for the front

                   [11] 155s in action east of Roye (artillery)

                   [12] Pistol practice

                   [13] Boche soldiers (dead) near Roye (Oise)

                   [14] French battery of 155s in the woods

                   [15] On board U.S.S. Rambler

                   [16] U.S. troops aboard the “Tenadories”

                   [17] U.S. Coast Artillery in action at Lenoncourt (Meuse)

                   [18] Trees felled by Germans

                   [19] “Hot stuff” enroute

                   [20] German cannon at Zeebrugge

                   [21] U.S. cemetery near Paris

 

File    32      Orr scrapbook materials pages 102-105 – These are

                   commercially produced photographs of World War I.  Listed

                   are the titles on the photographs:

                   [1] French front line trenches

                   [2] French “220” in the Argonne

                   [3] American camp hospital

                   [4] American Ambulance Service with the French army

                   [5] An A.E.F. kitchen

                   [6] U.S. cemetery at Belleau Wood

                   [7] Trench scene at Bataglan Four de Paris

                   [8] Infantry at Demange (Meuse)

                   [9] Capt. Guynemer in “Old Charles” (plane)

                   [10] Americans in French service

 

File    33      Orr scrapbook materials pages 114 and 115 and loose materials:

                   [1-4] Commercially produced photographs of World War I,

                             listed by the title on the photograph:

                   [1] Repairing shoes

                   [2] French tanks

                   [3] View of U.S. camp at St. Aignan

                   [4] U.S. artillery at Gonducourt

                   [5-11] Loose materials found in the scrapbook

                   [5] A brochure about “The New Alpha Delta Phi House at

                             Dartmouth” mailed from Wall Street Station, New York,

                             N.Y.

                   [6] Announcement of the marriage of Vera Gertrude Burkhardt

                             to Carl Samuel Wells, 2 June 1914, in West Roxbury,

                             Mass.

                   [7] Announcement of the marriage of Lucy Isabelle Smyser to

                             Dr. Mahlon Hackley Bristol, 6 June 1914, in Petoskey,

                             Michigan

                   [8] Invitation to visit Mr. and Mrs Charles Dale, 23 June 1914

                             for a wedding reception – mailed from Troy, Ohio

                   [9] Invitation to Commencement Week activities from Kenyon

                             College Alpha Delta Phi Chapter, 13-16 June (year not

                             determined)

                   [10] Invitation to Commencement exercises at The Western

                             College, Oxford, Ohio 1914 from Miss Frances Orr, the

                             niece of Caleb W. Orr

                   [11] Photograph of a baby girl identified as “Heinie.” (Possibly

                             Henrietta Angle daughter Martha Orr Angle, sister of

                             Caleb Worley Orr.)

 

File    34      Caleb Worley Orr Scrapbook - copy