Shepherdstown Register
Thursday, September 16, 1915
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Captain John W. Wilen, of the United States Army, a former resident of Martinsburg, died on Monday at the military hospital at the Presidio, San Francisco. He had been failing in health for the past three years, he having been badly hurt while on duty along the Mexican border by having his horse fall upon him. Captain Wilen, who was 38 years of age, was a graduate of West Point, and had seen active service in the Philippine Island