Pete Kuyper

Historical marker location:

723 West Sheridan Avenue, Shenandoah, Iowa

( Marker is at the intersection of Sheridan Avenue and Maple Street, on the right when traveling west on Sheridan Avenue.)

Pella, Iowa.

In 1917, a German submarine sank the SS Housatonic, a U.S. freighter carrying food and supplies to Europe during World War I, off the coast of South Carolina. Among the crew members who went down with the ship was an Iowa native named Herbert C. Jones, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the sinking.