Harry B. Schaub

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth: 4/13/1888, Minster, Ohio [Minster, Ohio was founded in 1832 by settlers from the Roman Catholic region of Munster in Westphalia in northwestern Germany. Corporal Harry B. Schaub's family had deep roots in Minster, OH.]

Address: 715 E. 99th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 29 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born U.S. citizen; occupation Merchant (self) at 10319 St. Clair, Cleveland, OH

Appearance: Height 5'11", Build 142 lbs., Eyes blue, Hair light

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/12/1917; Corporal 

Service Number: 1945226

Deployment: 6/4/1918 from New York aboard SS Orissa

Action: Co G 331 Inf to Aug 6/18; Sales Comsy 24 8 Area to death. Pvt Nov 12/17; Pvt 1cl Jan 1/18; Corp Nov 10/18; AEF June 4/18 to death. (Corporal Harry B. Schaub served in the Quartermaster Corps and Sales Commissary. The Quartermaster Corps is the U.S. Army's oldest logistics branch. Commissaries are military stores that provide essential supplies to soldiers, including food, water, clothing and equipment.)

Death: December 21, 1918 at age 30; cause of death Bronchopneumonia [possibly due to the 1918-1920 Influenza pandemic, although alternate cause of death listed on findagrave.com as Bronchopneumonia due to "mustard gas"]

Burial: WWI burial card information incomplete; 12/23/1918 buried locally in temporary American Cemetery in Langres, Haute Marne, France; 4/26/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp, Belgium to Hoboken, NJ aboard USAT Wheaton; final burial 6/11/1921 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 21 Lot 645-0

Next of Kin: Charles M. Schaub, father, 715 E. 99th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Parents lived with their daughter at her home at 3305 Tullamore Rd., Cleveland Heights, OH at the time of their deaths.

Father: Charles M. Schaub (1862-1936), born Shelby County, Ohio of German ancestry, occupation Motorman Street Railway and retired as a Cleveland Railway employee, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside his wife, daughter, and son Corporal Harry B. Schaub; Mother: Maria Catherine "Kate" Drees Schaub (1867-1946), born Minster, Auglaize County, Ohio of German ancestors who were prominent pioneer settlers of Minster, OH, buried at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside her husband, daughter, and son Corporal Harry B. Schaub ; Siblings: Bertha A. Schaub Fennell (1886-1963)