Thomas Henry EDSALL (Did not matriculate)

San Francisco Base Hospital Unit, No. 49
Born 5 October 1895
Died 2 January 1918, aged 22
Buried in Mountain View Cemetery, 435 Stoker Avenue, Reno, Nevada, USA.

Thomas Edsall was born in Cripple Creek, Colorado, the son of Burroughs and Josephine Edsall. The family moved to Reno, Nevada when he was 8.

He studied at the University of Nevada, where he was a track man, class president and class debater, honor student, and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He passed the Rhodes Scholarship examination in 1917 but never had the opportunity to go to Merton.

In July 1917 he volunteered his services in the San Francisco Base Hospital Unit, No. 49 and was called to the unit in December. At the time he was seriously ill with sarcoma of the hip in Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco and could not respond. He died without seeing active service, but was still buried with full military honours.