Biography
Daniel J. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed and confined at the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks in Kansas. He was among the objectors who had not been examined by the U.S. Army's Board of Inquiry before their court-martials.
Daniel J. (Dan A.?) Schmidt was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 25 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: sent to Ft. Riley; sentenced to 25 years in prison; imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth; part of Group 1 of C.O.s released in Jan. 1919 (those recommended by Bd. …
