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INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS These volumes contain biographical information about the men and women who are honored by the Wilmette Memorial. This information was accumulated from a variety of sources that I identified by research and inquiries during a six-month period of 1994-95. These sources are listed for each individual and summarized below. The completeness and accuracy of the information presented are, of course, only as good as the availability and accuracy of the sources which were identified. For some of the individuals, numerous sources of information were identified, for others, one, for one individual, nothing until a week before the dedication of the memorial. Civil War (1861-1865) The Wilmette memorial honors two men who died while in military service during the Civil War: John A. Fiegen and James A Mulligan. The information presented on page 1 about John Fiegen came from his great grandson, Frank Fiegen, who lives in Wilmette. The information on pages 2 and 3 about James Mulligan came primarily from Mark Braun, a Civil War expert and author who resides in Northfield. Spanish-American War (1898) One man who died while in military service during the Spanish-American War is honored by the memorial: He is the one for which no source of information had been identified, yet he was definitely on various lists as one of our people who died during the Korean War. A week before the Memorial Day dedication of the Wilmette monument was to take place, Evanston resident Art Carney, researching the men and women on the Evanston monument, contacted the village about Mirosky. Private Mirosky, carved under Korea, died during the Spanish-American War. World War I (1917-1918) The memorial honors 13 men who died while in military service during World War I. Of these, 12 were from Wilmette and one was from Gross Point. Gross Point was a separate viliage in 1917-1918 and subsequently became a part of Wilmette. Information about the men from Wilmette was obtained from four volumes similar to these, entitled Honor Roll in World War, Wilmette, Illinois, which were compiled by a Wilmette resident long ago and are at the Wilmette Historical Museum. The Gross Point man was Peter Huerter for whom the Wilmette American Legion Post # 46 is named. One Wilmette old-timer led me to another until I got in touch with Huerter's half sister, with his niece and with Grace Engels Braun whose father was -i-