When Carl Homer Rabenstein was born on July 23, 1887, in Neillsville, Wisconsin, his father, Carl, was 24 and his mother, Rachel, was 29. He had four brothers and four sisters. He graduated from Neillsville High School in the class of 1906. For a time, he taught school and later followed the printing trade. He was also foreman in the Neillsville Overall factory for some time, but later took up the printing business again. He enlisted and served on the Mexican border before the war. When the Great War came he again entered active service, went to Two Harbors, then to Camp Douglas, thence to Texas. After further drill there he went with a section of old Co. A to France. On Oct. 10 he was severely wounded in battle and died the next day.