Jacob Manton Shimer: Charter member and Corporal of Company M, Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, Bethlehem, Pa., Captain J. J. Shonk. At El Paso, Texas, 1916. Sergeant, Company D, 149th Machine Gun Battalion of the Rainbow Division, sent to France, 1917. Instructor at Officers' Training School at Gondrecourt, France. September 28, 1918, commissioned a Second Lieutenant from the Army Candidates' School, at Langres, France. Killed Octorber 15, 1918, while in command of Co. A, Seventh Infantry, Third Division, at Cunel in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Buried in Grave No. 57, Secton 38, Plot M-2, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-Sous-Montfaucan, Meuse. (Son of Allen R. and Ella Mensch-Shimer, Vol. I, page 107.)
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