CPL Edwin W. Olcott 
1896 – 1956
USAR
WWI
Edwin William Olcott, Jr. was born July 9, 1896 (gravestone error) in Chicago, to Dr. E. W. and Alice Cady Olcott.
Olcott served in the U.S. Army during World War I, enlisting on August 1, 1918 and assigned to the 4th Company, 154th Depot Brigade at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville. The role of depot brigades was to receive and organize recruits, provide them with uniforms, equipment and initial military training, and then send them to France to fight on the front lines. Once Armistice was declared November 11, 1918, the soldiers assigned to depot brigades were promptly discharged; Olcott was honorably discharged on Jan 1, 1919 as a Corporal.
Following military service, he commenced his career with the Northwestern Railroad, and worked in a variety of positions there until his death.
On September 14, 1922, he married Lillian E. Dunn in Cary.
Corporal Edwin Olcott, Jr. died unexpectedly April 19, 1956, and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.