POST HISTORY
William T. McCoy
William T. McCoy (credit for picture: Olmsted County History Center) http://www.olmstedhistory.com/
William T. McCoy was born in Madelia, MN on Jan. 20, 1893. When "Billy" was four years old he moved to Rochester for one year and spent his childhood in Simpson. After his school days, he came to Rochester and learned to be a telegraph operator and became manager of the Postal Telegraph Company. He also worked as operator and ticket agent for the Great Western Railway and he held this position when he volunteered and was part of a big unit that mobilized in Chicago. William served as a train dispatcher and station agent on one of the military lines in France. That he performed all of his duties which were exceedingly arduous, is self evident from the fact that his military record is entirely unblemished and that he was promoted to be corporal in the engineers, a division in which promotions were few. Unfortunately, in October 1918 William T. McCoy got sick and died. Corporal McCoy now sleeps beneath the soils of France. He is buried at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in Romagne, France.
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LEGION WELFARE HOUSE
Post 92 Welfare House (picture credit: Post-Bulletin & Olmsted County History Center)
Grouped in front of the welfare house near the Worrall Hospital are several Legionnaires who participated in the William T. McCoy post welfare work in 1931-32. Left to right, unidentified, Ray Guy, Jim Starkey, John Cutshall, James Pruett, Art Reiter, William Fitzgerald, Jack Feller, E. C. Bathers, Al Mitten and Jack Crowe. The five standing on the porch also are unidentified.
