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- World War I Honor Roll of Kalamazoo County Michigan
Lee Hascall Cahill, Maj. 338 Inf. 85 Div.; son of Leroy and Elma Lee Cahill Emery; born May 3, 1885, Kalamazoo Co.; Lt. Inf. Off. R. C. Nov. 6, 1916, at Plattsburg; ordered to active serv. May 1, 1917; prom. Capt. Aug 15, 1917; assigned command Co. A, Inf., Aug. 29, 1917; Prom. Maj. Dec 31, 1917, and assigned command of 2 Bn. 338 Inf.; overseas in operations between Meuse and Moselle; mustered out Apr. 14, 1919, Cmp. Custer.
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Obituary for Lee H. Cahill (Probably Kalamazoo Paper)
Lee Hascall Cahill, 64, of 435 West South street, died at 9 this morning at University Hospital, Ann Arbor, where he had been a patient two months.
A prominent local veteran of World War I, Mr. Cahill was born May 3, 1885, in Kalamazoo. He received his early education in Kalamazoo public schools and at the age of 15, attended Orchard Lake military academy. He attended schools in the east, studied in Switzerland and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Mr. Cahill served in the first World war, going overseas from Camp Custer with the 338th Infantry of the 85th Division. He went to France as a senior major, later becoming a colonel. He has been actively connected with the American Legion and the Reserve Officers Association in the years since World War I. Upon his return from war, Mr. Cahill was connected with the Lee Paper Company at Vicksburg for seven years. He had traveled extensively abroad.
Survivors include his wife, the former Charlotte Barnum, whom he married in 1928; his mother, Mrs. Emma Cahill Emery, Kalamazoo; and a nephew, Lt. Col. Charles B. Hazeltine, West Point, N. Y. The body was being returned to Kalamazoo today and funeral services are to be arranged by the Truesdale funeral home.
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New York Passenger Lists
Ship De Grasse from Le Havre, France, arrived New York, 25 Jul 1931
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