Veterans' Memorial Project

Lewis Vinton Manspeaker

Champaign, IL

World War I

College: Engineering

Graduation Year: 1909

Service Branch: Army

Rank: Captain

Date of Birth: 05/26/1887

Date of Death: 02/08/1918

Affiliations: Phi Delta Theta

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

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