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Kemp George Neiman

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George Neiman Kemp is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Honor Roll of Reformed Church in U.S.A.

Name:
George Neiman Kemp
Rank:
Captain
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Unit:
109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-09-30
State:
Pennsylvania
Cemetery:
Prospect Cemetery, Pennsylvania
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Captain George Neiman Kemp, was born on March 30, 1891, in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from the East Stroudsburg State Normal School, Pa., in 1908. He was the son of Elwood L. Kemp and Ida B. Orwig Kemp. After graduating from college, he served as the supervising principal of Palmer Township schools, Northampton County, Pa from 1911-12. From 1912 to 1914 he held the professorship of history at the Normal School at East Stroudsburg, Pa. In 1914 he entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, and as a law student enlisted in Company G, 13th Pennsylvania National Guard, at the time of its organization in 1916. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant while at Camp Hancock, on September 22, 1917, and raised to the rank of First Lieutenant on March 26, 1918. During the summer of 1918 he went to France, and for heroic and valorous service was promoted to the rank of Captain on August 39, 1918. He died from his wounds received in battle on September 30, 1918 in Meuse-Argonne, France and is now buried in Prospect Cemetery, East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA. He also has a memorial located at the Boalsburg Military Museum in Boalsburg, Center County, PA.
Source of information: www.findagrave.com, https://www.jstor.org/stable/42913362?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents