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2023.038.w.r
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Winterscheid family correspondence and photograph collection
source:
Winterscheid, Gail C.
Creator:
Winterscheid, Isal Amelia née Covart, 1899-1992
Creator:
Winterscheid, Claude Vernon, 1897-1986
Creator:
Winterscheid, Loren Covart, Private First Class, 1925-2017
Creator:
Walling, Lieutenant
Identifier/Call Number: 2023.038.w.r
Physical Description:
.5 Linear Feet
(4 folders; three objects)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1902
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and a diary belonging to members of the Winterscheid family. The collection
spans the Philippine-American War, First World War, and Second World War.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: Winterscheid Box 1
Container: 1-4
Container: 1-4
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Gail C. Winterscheid.
This collection is arranged by creator and chronology.
- Series 1, Lieutenant Walling Philippine-American War photo albums
- Series 2, Claude V. Winterscheid First World War correspondence and ephemera
- Series 3, Loren Covart Winterscheid Second World War diary, correspondence, and bible
This collection highlights materials belonging to members of the Winterscheid and Phillips families.
Robert Phillips (b. 1/13/1877) was born in Farmington, Illinois to Aaron W. Phillips and Margaret Jane Emery Phillips and
moved to Kansas at a very young age. He later served in the Philippine-American War, presumably coming into possession of
and leaving behind photographs (Series 1) to his older sister Jenny Elizabeth Covart née Phillips (11/27/1874 - 1941). She
passed those photographs to her daughter Isal Amelia Winterscheid née Covart (8/30/1899 - 12/22/1992). Isal was born in Kansas
and lived in Liberty as a child.
Isal later worked as a school teacher in Gridley, Kansas and married Claude Vernon Winterscheid, American Expeditionary Force
(3/26/1897 - 11/26/1986) in Gridley on October 24, 1920. Claude was born in Naponee, Nebraska to John and Fannie Winterscheidt
of Illinois. He served overseas with Company C, 1st Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division (Machine Gun) during
the First World War, during which he was wounded in his right arm in September 1918. He wrote Isal from overseas, often mentioning
correspondence with his sister, Pearl. He later earned a bachelors degree from Kansas State Agricultural College. Both were
interred at Tahoma Cemetary in Yakima, Washington.
Isal and Claude gave birth to a son, Private First Class Loren Covart Winterscheid, United States Army (10/5/1925 - 12/22/2017)
in Manhattan, Kansas, and later moved to Idaho and gave birth to a daughter, Joyce, before taking up residence in Oregon and
Washington.
Loren was working at Salem General Hospital in Oregon when he registered for the draft in October 1943 and enlisted on March
17, 1944 at Fort Lewis. He served with Medical Service Company, 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division during the Second
World War. He later earned a bachelors degree from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1948, a doctorate in microbiology
from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1953, and a medical doctorate in 1954, going on to enjoy a full
career in medical academia as faculty, dean, and director of various schools and medical centers including the University
of Washington. He married Muriel Elaine Oliver (1926 - 2017) on December 30, 1948 in Yakima, Washington and the two had a
daughter, Ann Findley Winterscheid (1952 - 2016). Loren passed away in Seattle, in 2017.
Both the Winterscheid and Covart families trace their heritage to the founding of the United States, with several members
of the Winterscheid heritage (Moore and Sheperd families) serving in the American Revolutionary War. All information herein
compiled and provided by the donor with supplementary information found and corroborated through Ancestry.com; see foldout
family tree included with the photo albums.
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Winterscheid family correspondence and photograph collection (2023.038.w.r),
Center for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and a diary belonging to members of the Winterscheid family. The collection
spans the Philippine-American War, First World War, and Second World War. In chronological order, the collection is comprised
of the following materials:
- Philippine-American War photo albums created by Lt. Walling, belonging to Isal Amelia Winterscheid née Covart, inherited from her uncle Robert Phillips
- Correspondence and ephemera from Claude V. Winterscheid, AEF during the First World War
- One diary, various correspondence, and one bible belonging to PFC Loren Covart Winterscheid, USA during the Second World War
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902
Japan -- History
Blacks -- History
Blacks -- Segregation
African Americans
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans.
Correspondence -- World War, 1914-1918
World War (1914-1918)
World War (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945) -- Personal Narratives
Christianity
Winterscheid, Gail C.