Name: Daniel Norman MacRitchie Rank: Lieutenant Service Number: Officer Service: United States Naval Reserve Force, United States Navy Date of Birth: February 2, 1876 Place of Birth: Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Place of Enlistment: Massachusetts Occupation: Boatman Marital Status: Married Religion: Episcopal Next of Kin: Mary E. MacRitchie (Wife) Date of Death: April 7, 1918 Age: 42 Cemetery: Unknown Daniel was the son of Daniel MacRitchie (1842-1893) and Mary Ann (McKenzie) MacRitchie Brown (1851- 1932), and the husband of Mary E. Conrad (1877-1950), and the father of Norman Conrad MacRitchie. Daniel’s siblings were William A (b. 1886), Angie M (b. 1888), and Catherine G. MacRitchie (b. 1890) His son, Norman Conrad MacRitchie (b. 1909-1970), worked as a farmer and lived in Wellington, Yarmouth County, in the 1940’s. He later become a school teacher in Yarmouth where he taught for 30 years. In 1940. Mary died in Yarmouth, NS on July 22, 1950, and Norman, in 1970. Norman is interred in Liverpool, Nova Scotia (his widow was Emma Emelia Reinhardt). Daniel was married Mary Elizabeth Conrad of West Berlin, Queens County, Nova Scotia, on February 15, 1908, in Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Mary was a graduate nurse of the Whidden Memorial Hospital. By 1910, Daniel and Mary were living at 32 Hancock St in Boston, Mass. Their son Norman was born in 1909, and Daniel was working as a boatman in Boston harbor. Later, he was employed as a provisional dealer, and he was a member of the Palestine Lodge of the Massachusetts Freemasons in Everett, Mass. (since 1907). Daniel served in the United States Naval Reserve Force (USNRF). Founded on August 29, 1916, the USNRF opened-up enlistment requirements and organized Reservists into six categories based on their experience, trade, and area of operability. By the end of WWI in 1919, fifty-four percent of the US Navy’s personnel was from the USNRF. Daniel was listed as category 3 of the 6 categories. Daniel died of pneumonia at the Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland on April 7, 1918. A service was held Following his death, his widow Mary and son Norman moved to Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Both resided in Nova Scotia for the rest of their lives. The family surname is recorded as McRitchie in some records.

Sources: Family Records Boston Post - April 1918

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