Prelude
Joseph and Maria Wagner emigrated from Austria in the 1890s. They first settled in New Jersey, where their son Charles was born, and afterward moved to Division Avenue in Hicksville. Charles later became a plumber. He enlisted in the Army only a few weeks after the nation entered the Great War in 1917.
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Already a young man, Joseph Barry moved to Hicksville from the Bronx, as part of his Irish-born parents' family. The Barrys first resided on William Street, and later moved to Harrison Avenue. In 1915, like his father, he worked as a plumber, but by the 1917 draft registration he was working as a "chauffer" for Nassau Lumber.
Drafted, Joe was inducted into the Army on May 29, 1918. His younger brother Edmund was already serving in the Navy.
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Samuel and Mary Wheeler also moved their family from the Bronx to Hicksville, where they resided on Cherry Street near Division Avenue. Samuel managed Tucker Electrical's Hicksville branch, at which their son Walter worked as an electrician; Walter likely helped wire the new Huettner Building that opened late in 1918. He also was a member of the Hicksville Fire Department.
Look at that Hicksville Telephone number!
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Like Joseph Barry, Walter Wheeler was inducted as a draftee into the Army on May 29, 1918.
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