Leroy Horlacher, World War I Conscientious Objector

Posted by on Mar 13, 2017 in | Comments Off on Leroy Horlacher, World War I Conscientious Objector During World War I, by the time of the first national registration on June 5, 1917, approximately 6,000 American men applied as conscientious objectors. Leroy Horlacher (1894–1981) was one of them. Horlacher was born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, where he began working at an early age in the silk mills as a weaver. In 1915 he became a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or the...
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