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                <text>VPI Class of 1914</text>
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            <text>Kollefrath</text>
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            <text>22 September 1887</text>
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            <text>August and Barbara</text>
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        <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
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            <text>No, but did attend VPI in the 1910-1911 school year. Transferred to Ohio Northern University where he graduated in Engineering in 1914.</text>
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            <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Served overseas from 15 September 1918 to 21 April 1919&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Service information from the &lt;em&gt;Ohio, Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in World War I, 1917-1918&lt;/em&gt;: "Engineers C Fort Benj Harrison Ind to 3 Aug 1918; 5 Battalion 22 Engineers to Discharge Private American Expeditionary Forces 15 Sept 1918 to 17 Dec 1918. Honorable Discharge 21 Apr 1919."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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        <name>Bibliography</name>
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&lt;li&gt;1914 Ohio Northern Univeristy yearbook&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ohio, Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in World War I, 1917-1918&lt;/em&gt;, page 9414&lt;/li&gt;
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        <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
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              <text>Kollefrath, Howard Albert</text>
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