Dean Duncan
(1895-1918)
Embedded Files
Private Dean Duncan, signature on WWI draft registration
USS Ticonderoga
Tablets of the Missing, Brookwood American Military Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England showing the name of Private Dean Duncan
Duncan family gravestone, Cleveland, OH with the inscription after Private Dean Duncan’s name: “Lost on the Ticonderoga”
Dean Duncan [aka Jesse Dean Duncan]
*No plaque found
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.
*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Birth: 1/25/1895, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Birth: 1/25/1895, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Address: Avon Lake P.O. West Dover, Ohio and 4123 E. 112th St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; married; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Clerk at Grasselli Chemical Co., Cleveland OH [one of Cleveland's leading chemical producers originating in Cincinnati in 1839 and erecting a plant in Cleveland in 1886]
Appearance: Height medium, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair brown, noted to be bald
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 7/26/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 7/26/1918; Private
Marriage: 6/4/1917 at age 22 to Elva Davis, age 21, a teacher at the time of marriage and after she was widowed. The 1922 City Directory listed her as a teacher at Miles School. She remarried in 1925 to Russell Cook.
Service Number: 4124778
Deployment: September 19-22, 1918 from Norfolk, Virginia aboard USS Ticonderoga
Action:
Death: September 30, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Missing in Action when Lost at Sea in the Sinking of the USS Ticonderoga. Accounts differ, but of approximately 237 soldiers and sailors aboard the ship there were 24 survivors after a desperate 2-hour battle in which most of the men were killed or wounded. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-152.
Death: September 30, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Missing in Action when Lost at Sea in the Sinking of the USS Ticonderoga. Accounts differ, but of approximately 237 soldiers and sailors aboard the ship there were 24 survivors after a desperate 2-hour battle in which most of the men were killed or wounded. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-152.
Burial: Burial at sea. Inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Brookwood American Military Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England. Name inscribed on the Duncan family gravestone at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Section 2 Lot 243 Grave 2. The inscription on the gravestone after his name reads, "Lost on the Ticonderoga."
Burial: Burial at sea. Inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Brookwood American Military Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England. Name inscribed on the Duncan family gravestone at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Section 2 Lot 243 Grave 2. The inscription on the gravestone after his name reads, "Lost on the Ticonderoga."
Next of Kin: Mrs. Mary J. Duncan, mother, 4123 E. 112th St., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: [Editor's note: Private Dean Duncan was born in Johnstown, PA, six years after the devastating Johnstown flood. The list of flood survivors includes the names Duncan and Williams, the surnames of Private Duncan's father and mother, respectively. It is not known if his relatives perished there, but his life was bookended by the tragedies of the Johnstown flood and the sinking of the USS Ticonderoga.]
Father: Milton Meade Duncan (1863-1933), born Pennsylvania, occupations 1900 Janitor, 1910 Watchman at Department Store, 1920 Stockkeeper, buried Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Mary J. Williams Duncan (1862-1946), born Pennsylvania, occupation 1910 Proprietor of Notions Store, buried Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Mabel Ivy Duncan Grainger (1892-1988). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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