‘History’ Archives
Willam Anthony Hazelquist: 140 Day Soldier Died Two Days Before WWI Armistice
251st from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery… Historians are fond of saying that they “fell down arabbit hole” when they start out researching one topic andwind up somewhere unexpected. This is one of thosestories. There is a small connection to the cemetery but alarger story about a man who lived in what was to becomethe Phillips neighborhood.. In fact, he lived three doorsdown from my house. Private William Anthony HazelquistCompany B 353 rd U.S. InfantryBorn in Minneapolis on March 29, 1890Died on November 9, 1918, from wounds received at the Battle of Meuse-Argonne. William Anthony Hazelquist was a homebody. He was28 years old but had never spent more than a few daysaway from home. He was inducted in the U.S. Army onJune 22, 1918, and after completing his training, he wasshipped out to France. He died there on November 9,1918. William was born in Minneapolis on March 29, 1890,the fifth youngest of Swedish immigrants, John andSophia Johnson’s six [...]
Phillips Oral History Project: Oct. ’26
This month, Janis Lodermeier returns to talk about hitchhiking. A lot of people hitchhiked. Like hippier types, but then it started to get really spooky, not just in this neighborhood, just anywhere. It never was safe. I should not have been doing it. But I didn't have a lot of choices. And sometimes you meet up with somebody that was hitchhiking and it could be fun. Until it wasn't. And there were times I even told some people that I hitchhiked, that gave me rides, I said 'you should be careful too of who you pick up because they're crazy crazy people too.' Some of the rides were fun and…most of them were not memorable. I wouldn't remember and then they, it was just getting to the point where there were, it was bad most the time. my brothers told me 'you shouldn't be doing this anymore.' And stuff, but I would not recommend it. Times were different. You'd have to be plum crazy to do it now, for real. Even then it was just a brief period where it was all it was fairly [...]
Oral History Project: Sept. ’26
This month, Janis Lodermeier talks about having George Morrison as an art professor. When I was going to the U - I am not Native American, but the AIM Movement was very active right up here. The Native American Center was just built and the Native artist George Morrison, who did the beautiful mural, he was one of my art teachers at the U. He didn't pick me. I didn't pick him. It was just the luck of the draw. I did not know until years later, he was like a member of the Art Students League, I think in New York. He lived in Paris. He was…somebody… … I started not coming to class because the models, for that class, we had to pay separately, and they would frequently be standing out in the hall smoking, and then when they saw him coming down the hallway, they'd jump back up, and that really made me mad. It didn't seem to bother a lot of other people, but I thought… they're supposed to be up there. We're paying them to do that stuff, and so I started not coming all the time, [...]
