After the war ended three months later, the army sent him to Trinity College in Cambridge for four months of study while he waited for space on a troopship to come home. After spending a couple of weeks together, Lovelace returned to Camp Dodge to complete his training.
While he was on leave, Lovelace returned to Minneapolis and married Maud on Nov. Prior to being shipped overseas, Lovelace was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, with the 339th Machine Gun Battalion. Wakefield would send me on assignments out to Fort Snelling,” so that she could spend time with Lt. Army and was sent to Fort Snelling, located near Minneapolis. engaged in World War I, Lovelace joined the U.S. In April 1917, Lillian invited Maud and Lovelace to her place for dinner, and an immediate attraction developed between the two. Wakefield's wife, Lillian, hired Maud to work for her when she opened the Wakefield Publicity Bureau in 1916. Little did they realize that 17 years later they would work together on a project about a gigantic gorilla that terrorized the citizens of New York.Ĭontributed / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons While there, he met and befriended another reporter, Merian C. In 1914, Loveless moved to Minneapolis to attend the University of Minnesota and work as a reporter for the (Minneapolis) Daily News. After graduation in 1913, Delos Lovelace was hired as a reporter for the Fargo Courier News by managing editor Lewis T. In early 1911, Josephine moved to Fargo where she continued to work as a dressmaker and Delos attended high school. He also worked in the harvest fields in northern Minnesota. To help the family financially, Delos delivered newspapers and, spent his summers working on his uncle’s farm in Michigan.
Sometime before 1899, Morton died and Josephine moved to Detroit to work as a dressmaker and raise her five children, of which Delos was the youngest. Most sources list his place of birth as Brainerd, but since Lovelace listed his birth location as “Deer River” on his World War I draft registration card, I find this as the most credible source for his place of birth. 2, 1895, in Deer River, Minnesota, to Mortimer “Morton” and Josephine (Wheeler) Lovelace.
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