When Paul Cook Hurlburt was born on February 12, 1886, in Pennsylvania, his father, George, was 42 and his mother, Katherine, was 32. He was educated in the public schools of Tidionte, Pa., graduating from high school and entering the University of Kentucky, from which institution he graduated in 1908 after specializing in law.

After leaving college he practiced law a while and then was ranch foreman out in Colorado, later entering the employ of the Government in the Chicago Post Office Department. He was admitted to the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan and assigned to the 23rd Company.

He received a commission as Second Lieutenant and sailed for France in January, 1918. After a period of further military instruction in A.E.F. schools he was assigned to the 28th Infantry. Lieutenant Hurlburt was twice wounded during the Battle of Cantigny, which necessitated about six weeks' hospital treatment.

He then returned to Company M, where he received a First Lieutenancy. While leading his platoon he was hit by a shell fragment and instantly killed on October 2, 1918. He is now buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse, Lorraine, France. His name is commemorated on the First Infantry Division monument in Saint-Juvin, France but his surname is inscribed as Hurlbert.

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