Lieutenant Guy Carleton Parlett

Post 7 is an Original Founders Post established in 1919 by Andreas Z. Holley and 16 other veterans of the Great War upon thier return home to Annapolis. Holley, who had been at the Paris Caucus when the American Legion was founded, named the new post after his friend and schoolmate, Guy Carleton Parlett who had served his country well as a member of the Army's 115th Regiment of the 29th "Blue & Gray" Division before passing away at the age of 26.  Local Post Bears Name of Parlett. 

The following is a transcribed article from an archived online version at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. It is taken from the Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette July 23 1919 images 1 and 5

To Honor Young Annapolitan Who First Gave Life for Nation in Great War.
Legion Names Officers 
The local post of the American Legion will be known as,  "The guy Carlton Parlett Post, State of Maryland No. 7" that name having been unanimously chosen at a meeting of the post held in the Armory last evening in honor of Lieut. Parlett of the Machine Gun Company of the 1st Maryland Infantry, National Guard, and 115th infantry U.S. Army. Officers at the post were also elected. The officers named were as follows: Post Commander, Andreas Z. Holley; Vice Post Commander, Daniel J Murphy; Post Adjutant, Bernard J. Weiland, Post Financial Officer, Charles Pancheon; Post Historian, Hugh Finley, Post Chaplain, R. Thornton.
In moving the adoption of the name Guy Carlton Parlette for the Post, Major Reilly said,  "I think that one name for this purpose suggests itself to every member here. Guy Carlton Parlette was the first sacrifice from the youth of our community, as far as I know, to the cause for this for which this nation fought. He did not lay down his life on the field of battle or even cross the ocean, as death claimed him while the unit to which he belonged was still in this country, but no man in the whole service gave his life more freely or fought against greater odds to perform his whole duty. Guy Carleton Parlett was the kind of young man to make us all proud that we belong to an organization bearing his name. No young man entered the guard and the service of his country from purer motives of patriotism and none gave his service more cheerfully, more helpfully or more bravely. I remember him well on the Border and how he stuck to his work when he was physically unable to do it,  and only his great courage and spirit made it possible." 
"He was a young man of great kindness of heart, cleanness of life, of fine and patriotic spirit. We could choose no name more fitting for our post or one more likely to inspire us to accomplish the objects of our splendid organization."
The motion was supported by Howard Strange, Andreas Holley and others and was passed unanimously.
Guy Carleton parlett from whom the post is named is the son of Mr. And Mrs. Claudius R. Parlett of Millersville, this county and Annapolis. He was one of the original members of The splendid Machine Gun Company of the first Maryland which gave thirty-one officers to the nation during the late war out of its original fifty members.
Shortly after the organization of the company in which he was deeply interested and for which he did much fine work, Parlett was made a sergeant and served in this capacity on the border at Eagle Pass, Texas. There he was taken with a serious organic trouble and was desperately ill. An operation was performed and his health improved for some time so that he was accepted by the government and served with the First Maryland and afterwards with the hundred and 115th infantry at Camp McClellan, Alabama. At Camp McClellan he was seized with renewal of his trouble, with complications and died at the camp hospital there.
It will be noted that the local post is "No. 7,"  it being the seventh organized in the State of Maryland so that it is well up among the earliest organized. Most of the others are in Baltimore City, but the work of organizing new posts is going on rapidly throughout the State.