Dr. Albert Franklin Sarver
He was Commander of the Erk Cottrell American Legion Post 140 in 1932. He served in France during WW1 as a First Lieutenant in the American Expedition Force (AEF).
When Dr. Sarver served in the AEF in WW1 he kept a personal diary of his experiences. There is a web site that presents that information called "The Medical Front WWI @ www.vlib.us”. Dr. Sarver’s diary is posted on that web site, you can read all about his experiences in his own words. He was born Sept. 3rd 1888 and later died on July 31st 1976 in Greenville, OH.
To read his diary and all about his medical service in combat during WW1 go to this web site link: http://www.vlib.us/medical/sarverdiary.htm
You can also read a copy of his local history below as it was first published in 1925 in the:
Darke County Ohio-Bios: Titled: Sarver, Albert Franklin, M.D.
ALBERT FRANKLIN SARVER, M.D. The medical profession is ably represented at Greenville, Ohio, and here, as elsewhere in educated, cultivated communities, its members are held in the high esteem that their scientific requirements and their professional achievements so richly deserve. One of the younger members of the medical fraternity at Greenville is Dr. Albert Franklin Sarver, physician and surgeon, and an overseas veteran of the World war. Doctor Sarver is president of the Darke County Medical Association.
Albert Franklin Sarver was born in Darke County, Ohio, September 3, 1888, and is a son of Adam and Della Sarver, residents of Greenville, where his father is engaged in the tobacco business. For a number of years before coming to Greenville Adam Sarver was a successful farmer and stock raiser in Darke County, where the family first settled in pioneer days.
In the country schools and the public schools of Arcanum, Ohio, Doctor Sarver spent his boyhood and early youth, then turned his attention to medical study and entered the medical department of Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 1913. Following graduation he served during 1913-14 as interne in Mount Carmel Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, and then located at Greenville and established himself here in the practice of his profession. The coming of the great World War brought to him, as to thousands of others, radical changes in his life.
On December 9, 1917, he entered the service of the United States, and spent the following three months in the Medical Officers Training Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was then attached to the Three Hundred Fifty-fifth United States Infantry, Eighty-ninth Division, Camp Funston, Kansas, and with this unit started overseas June 2, 1918, and was safely landed at Liverpool, England. After fifteen days at Camp Woodley, near Winchester, the division sailed from Southampton for France, landed at Havre, and went to the Vosges battle front on the 8th of August, there being but three months interval between the peaceful environments of his native land and the fury of battle and destruction on foreign soil, the full story of which has never yet been adequately told. He served on that battle front until October 26, being under fire for 100 days, then fell sick and was sent to Base Hospital 49, Alery, France, and later to the Convalescent Hospital at Hyers. He returned to the United States by way of Paris and Bordeaux February 2, 1919, and was honorably discharged at Camp Dix February 10,1919.
As soon as possible Doctor Sarver resumed practice at Greenville, and occupies a position of high merit here. He is identified with numerous professional organizations and, as noted above, is president of the Darke County Medical Association, of which he had been secretary for six years.
Doctor Sarver married at Greenville, December 28, 1920, Miss Naomi Arens, and they have a daughter, La Jenne, who was born August 19, 1922. Doctor and Mrs. Sarver are members of the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the American Legion and was active in assisting in the organization of the American Legion Band, now the official band of this body in the State of Ohio. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Greenville, belongs also to the Red Men and the Elks, and still preserves his membership in the Phi Kappa Greek letter fraternity of university days.
PUBLISHED: 1925