Ordinary Men Build A Legendary Road
Black Engineers & The ALCAN Highway
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 2 July 1917, Clarksdale, MS. Died: 11 March 2004, Los Angeles, CA. Enlisted: 28 March 1941, Camp Shelby, MS. Discharged: 8 November 1945. Education: one year high school. Civilian occupation: chauffeur/driver truck or cab. His father was Ben Beck and his mother was Susie Anderson. Serial #34020928 If…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 5 February 1919, Greenville, SC. Died: 1 September 2004, Salisbury, Rowan, NC. Enlisted: 29 March 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Discharged: 6 August 1945. Education: four years high school. Civilian occupation: employed at Simpson’s Cafe. His father was Willie E. Agnew, a school janitor, and his mother was Jennie…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 5 October 1909, Duplin, NC. Died: 11 April 1981, Rochester, Monroe, NY. Enlisted: 28 March 1941, Ft. Bragg, NC. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: employed at Ricks Fertilizer Company. His mother was Eliza Ashford and his wife was Edith Mae Ashford. They had five daughters and six sons….
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 15 March 1918, Morgan County, GA. Died: 15 April 1996, Knoxville, TN. Enlisted: 25 March 1941, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA. Discharged: 10 November 1945. Education: four years of high school. Civilian occupation: cook, porter. His father was John Walker and his mother was Pearl White. He married Brenda Sue…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 5 March 1919, Charleston, SC. Died: 24 May 1989, Massachusetts. Enlisted: 20 August 1940, Ft. Bragg, NC. Regular Army. Corps of Engineers. Discharged: 11 December 1945. Education: four years high school. Civilian occupation: painter, construction. His father was Francis O. Mitchell, a laborer in ship building at South…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 23 November 1918, Dekalb, GA. Died: 29 September 2009, Buffalo, Erie, NY. Enlisted: 4 August 1941, Buffalo, NY. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: In 1940 he was a farm laborer. In New York he was a waiter. He married Ollie Iver (Ivory) Brown on 24 December 1954. (1918-2004)….
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 1 June 1918, Newellton, LA. Died: 13 May 1996, Tallulah, Madison, LA. Enlisted: 22 July 1941, Jacksonville Army Airfield, FL. Discharged: 19 November 1945. Education: grammar school. Civilian occupation: chauffeur/driver truck or cab. In 1940 he was employed by Chicago Mill and Lumber Company. He was a laborer…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 5 October 1917, Lenoir, NC. Died: 5 September 1977 Buncombe County, NC. Enlisted: 16 August 1940, Charlotte, NC, Regular Army, Corps of Engineers. Discharged: 8 November 1945. Education: one year high school. His father was Sam Patterson and his mother was Malinda B. Jones. His wife was Laura…
African American. Alaska Highway. Company E. Born: 10 March 1918, Brittons Neck, Marion, South Carolina. Died: 15 June 2014, Waterbury, CT. Enlisted: 27 August 1941, Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC. Education: three years high school. Civilian occupation: 1940 census records Alvin as a farm laborer. His father was Thomas Hemingway and his mother was Golda Hemingway….
Alaska Highway. H&S Company, Captain. Corps of Engineers. Born: 30 January 1907 Newark, NJ. Died: 20 August 1993, Lavallette, NJ. Buried: St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Toms River, Ocean County, NJ. Edward graduated from Linden High School in New Jersey and in 1929 he graduated from Rensselaer College in Troy, NY with a degree in Civil…