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Claude B. McDonald spent his youthful days under the parental roof, his boyhood being passed in the usual manner of the lad of the period and his education acquired in the public schools. This and his home training well qualified him for the practical and responsible duties of life. Starting out in the business world he was employed as shipping clerk by the Pitman Harrison Wholesale Seed Company at Sherman, Texas. Following America's advent into the World war he joined the army and served as a private in an ambulance corps of the Seventy-seventh Division. He was trained at Camp Pike, at Camp Greenleaf and at Camp Merritt and was assigned to Ambulance Company, No. 307. He participated in the entire campaign in the Argonne forest. He was also at St. Vaille, bringing ,the wounded from the front and was almost constantly under fire. He went through all of the experiences of modern warfare in the performance of his duty, never once faltering, no matter how difficult and dangerous the task assigned him. Mr. McDonald was mustered out in June, 1919, and returning to his home he was soon afterward appointed postmaster of Mansfield, which position he is most capably and acceptably filling, discharging his duties with promptness and-thoroughness and the patrons of the office find him always courteous and obliging. He is highly esteemed by reason of the sterling worth of his character and all who know him speak of him in terms of high regard. Fraternally he is a Mason and member of the Eastern Star and is a most loyal follower of the teachings and high purposes of the craft. |