Jacob Wortsmann

Jacob Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth; Fort Douglas. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, reduced to 3 years. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered for draft on June 5, 1917, as a C.O.; interviewed by Bd. in June 1918 at Upton, July 1918 at Leavenworth, & on Jan. 5, 1919 at the Disciplinary Barracks ; classed by Bd. as 1A (later as 6?); charged with disobedience of orders; …