Ward Clarence Daisenberger

Ward Clarence Daisenberger was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: assigned to 21st Recruit Company (as a recruit, not a draftee), Headquarters Eastern Department, Governors Island (New York, New York), June 17, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth about Sept. 13, 1918; sentence remitted on Aug. …