Squire Sawyer Whateley
otherSquire Sawyer Whateley, chairman of the local draft board in 1917, struggled to find enough physically sound young Dunwich men to fill even a development-camp quota, an early hint of the region's degeneracy.
When war came in 1917, Squire Sawyer Whateley, as chairman of the local draft board, had hard work finding a quota of young Dunwich men fit even to be sent to a development camp — a telling sign of the region's inbred decline.
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“In 1917 the war came, and Squire Sawyer Whateley, as chairman of the local draft board, had hard work finding a quota of young Dunwich men fit even to be sent to a development camp.”
The Dunwich Horror (1929) — Chapter 3