CYRUS CURTIS (1850-1933)-- Founder of Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.
JOHN THOMAS DORRANCE (1873-1930)-- Discovered method to make condensed soup and president of Campbell Soup Company.
FRANK H. FLEER (1857-1921)-- Inventor of bubble gum and baseball card pioneer. That figures.
LEWIS M. HAUPT (1844-1937) Engineer noted for work with waterways. His father was Herman Haupt who was so important in the Union transportation, particularly with railroads, during the Civil War.
RUDOLPH HERING (1847-1923)-- Engineer who was very involved with the reversing of the Chicago River.
BRENDA J. PAYTON HILL (1945-1992)-- As Brenda Payton, she was lead singer of doo wop group Branda and the Tabulations.
--Cooter
From Wikipedia.
This is a continuation of my Road Trippin' Through History that I started in my Running the Blockade: Civil War Navy blog last week. I wrote about a Sgt. Richard Binder, USMC, who had received a Medal of Honor for service at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in 1865.
When I Road Trip Through History, I start with a story and see where it takes me. One of the things I like to do is find out if there are any folks of interest buried where the person is interred. Sgt. Binder is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery. The cemetery is by Philadelphia, but actually in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania and is affiliated with the larger Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Earlier today, I, posted about four Union soldiers who received Medals of Honor during the Civil War in my Running the Blockade blog.
There are a number of early baseball players buried there, but I am not familiar with any of their names.
ALEXANDER MILNE CALDER ((1845-1923) Sculptor. Designed the George Meade statue in Philadelphia along with the Benjamin Franklin statue atop the Philadelphia City Hall.
WILLIAM E. CARTER (1875-1940) Millionaire and survivor of the Titanic.
More to Come. --Cooter
In the last post, I wrote that Ensign Worth Bagley, brother of David Bagley, USN, was the only naval officer killed in action during the Spanish-American War when his ship, the torpedo boat USS Winslow was hit by a shell from a Spanish warship.
The USS Winslow (TB-5) was named after the famed CivilWar naval officer John Ancrum Winslow who commanded the USS Kearsarge when it sank the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama.
There was also a World War I destroyer, the USS Winslow (DD--53), an O'Brien-class destroyer which was decommissioned in 1922.
The destroyer USS Winslow (DD-359), a Porter-class destroyer commissioned in 1937 that served in World War II It was named for John Ancrum Winslow and his second cousin, Admiral Cameron Winslow.
Cameron Winslow served in the Spanish-American War and World War I.
Looks like I'll have to be doing some RoadTrippin' Through History.
--Cooter
In July, 1917, he was selected to command the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and promoted to brigadier general. At the school, he began the process of reorganizing and modernizing the program of instruction to meet the increased demand for officers created by World War I.
In September 1917, Snow was assigned to command the 156th Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In February 1918, he was selected to serve as the first Chief of Field Artillery, an unofficial position created to oversee the field artillery branch's wartime mobilization and training and was promoted to major general in June.
In this role, he created a system of training centers and replacement depots, which enabled the artillery branch to meet the wartime demand for qualified artillerymen.
William J. Snow was obviously a very important man in the field artillery branch of the U.SA. Army. Of interest, currently I am writing about a man named Anne-Louis Toussard in my Not So Forgotten: War of 1812 blog. He was of great importance to the American artillery in the American Revolution and wrote a book about artillery used in the 1800s by the United States. He also was very important in the creation and early days of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Well worth a trip over there to read about him.
Just Some More RoadTripping Through History. --Cooter
I came across this ship while reading the December 2021 issue of the Civil War Times, Not exactly where you'd expect to find a Korean War and Vietnam warship.
From the December 2021 Civil War Times Rambling with John Banks "No man left behind"
He went to Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to walk the battlefield there and met Steve Alemar who is not only a parking enforcement officer, but also president of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association.
John Banks has a blog called John Banks Civil War Blog and he goes to lots of places and relives fairly unknown parts of the war. Regardless of your interest in history, if you want to read and go along with someone really living history, this is your guy. Well worth a trip to his site.
I wrote about his trip to meet Lt. Lemuel Crocker from the battle who Banks describes as a "Civil War Bad Ass" in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog earlier this month.
Anyway, John Banks, also found quite a story with Steve Alemar, whose mom was a secretary for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and dad was employed by the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. Alemar himself was a former postal worker and also served as a park ranger for two years at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C..
He is also a veteran of the Vietnam War himself. I will write about his experience on the USS Newport News next.
So, when John Banks went from the Civil War to the Vietnam War, he did some RoadTrippin' Through History, which I do a lot. I start with a story and see how far I can take it.
--Cooter
