Sons of the Revolution in Washington D.C. 1920 - Honor Roll - Part 4
KIPKE GENEALOGY

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The Society

of the

Sons of the Revolution

in the

District of Columbia

1920


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Honor Roll

of the members of the

Sons of the Revolution

in the

District of Columbia

who

IN THE SPIRIT OF SELF SACRIFICE
ENROLLED THEMSELVES

in the

SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY

in the

WORLD WAR OF 1914-1918


He puts not off the citizen when he enters the Camp, but it is because he is a citizen and would wish to continue so, that he makes himself for a while a soldier. -- Sir William Blackstone.


Part 4

Ola Walter BELL: Major, U.S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel, August 5, 1917; Colonel, November 5, 1917. Professor of Military Science and Tactics, Fort Sheridan, Ill.; Detailed Adjutant General's Department, Newport News, Va.

Robert Root BENNETT: Captain, Signal Corps, August 5, 1917. Military Intelligence Section, General Staff, War Department, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged January 17, 1919.

Edward Maurice BLACKWELL: Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy; Commander, October, 15, 1917. Executive Officer, U. S. S. Solace (Hospital Ship); Commander U. S. S. Solace; Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C., to sick leave; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.

George Beale BLOOMER: Ensign Pay Corps, U. S. N. R. F., May 31, 1917; Lieutenant (Junior Grade), October 17, 1917; Lieutenant, February 1, 1918. Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., U. S. S. Amerika; Assistant to Fuel Officer, Fourth Naval District, Philadelphia, Pa.; Assistant to Aide for Supply, Philadelphia, Pa.; Relieved from active duty June 21, 1919.

Stanhope English BLUNT: Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired). Active duty April 7, 1917; Office Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D.C.; Representative Ordnance Department, General Munitions Board of Counsel of National Defense; Supervisor of Manufacturing Arsenals; Relieved from active duty August 4, 1918.

Gardner Lloyd BOOTHE, II: Enlisted Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. Army, August 9, 1918; Promoted Second Lieutenant, Coast Artillery Reserve Corps, November 30, 1918; to inactive duty December 1, 1918.

Henry Buchanan BYRD, Jr.: Ensign, U.S. Navy. Enlisted November 15, 1917, United States Navy; Commissioned Ensign November 30, 1918; Fourth Naval District, Philadelphia, Pa.; to inactive duty, August 9, 1919.

John Doyle CARMODY: Major, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel (Air Service), July 12, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D.C.; General Supply Depot and Concentration Camp, Morrison, Va.; Governors' Island, N.Y.; Office of Director of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C.; Army Balloon School, Fort Omaha, Nebraska; Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California; Army Balloon School, Camp John Wise, Texas; Office Director, Air Service, War Department, Washington, D.C.; Commissioned regular service, Major, Adjutant General's Department, U. S. Army.

Robert Hollister CHAPMAN: (Deceased), Major, Engineer Corps, U. S. Army, March 21, 1917. Assistant to Department Engineer, Eastern Department at Wakefield, Mass.; Camp Humphreys, Va. Honorably discharged December 6, 1918.

Alan Ogilvie CLEPHANE: (Deceased), Lieutenant (Junior Grade), U. S. Navy, April 7, 1917. Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Federal Rendezvous, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Commanded U. S. S. Arcturus; Commanded U. S. S. Whirlwind; Bureau of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.

Lewis Painter CLEPHANE: Lieutenant, U. S. Navy, February 24, 1917; Lieutenant Commander June 25, 1917. Fifth Naval District, Norfolk, Va.; U. S. S. Fish Hawk; Navy Headquarters, Baltimore, Md.; Senior Member, Joint Army and Navy Board of Survey; Commanded Section One, Fifth Naval District, Baltimore, Md.; Supervisor Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Baltimore, Md.; training Division, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D.C.

Walter Collins CLEPHANE: Major (Judge Advocate General's Department), U. S. Army, April 7, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, April 22, 1919. Member Board of Reviews, Military Justice Division; Office of Judge Advocate General, War Department, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged June 30, 1920.

Richard Graham DAVENPORT: Commodore, U.S. Navy, (Retired). To active duty January 26, 1918, Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Senior Member of the Permanent Board of Investigations; President numerous Courts of Inquiry; relieved from active duty May 20, 1919.

Edwin Willard DEMING: Captain, June 28, 1918. Small Arms Firing School, Camp Perry, Ohio, as head of Camouflage; Camp Benning, Ga., in charge of Camouflage and special target work; in charge of small bore sniping and camouflage, National Matches at Caldwell, N.J.; Camp Benning, Columbus, Georgia, as teacher of camouflage. Honorably discharged.

Seely DUNN: Commissioned Captain, Quartermasters Corps, U. S. Army, April 27, 1917, and served until October 8, 1919. Was in charge of important transportation activities on Mexican border and at New York. Honorably discharged October 8, 1919.

Clinton Goodloe EDGAR: Captain, Quartermaster Reserve Corps, April, 1919; Lieutenant Colonel, August, 1917; Colonel, December, 19917 [sic] Colonel, Supply Division, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D.C., Mineola, L. I., Hampton, Va., Evansville, Indiana; Office Director of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C. Commended and recommended for Distinguished Service Medal by Chief Signal Officer and Director of Military Aeronautics. Honorably discharged February 8, 1919.

Lay Hampton EVERHART: Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy, (Retired). To active duty, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., March 26, 1917; relieved and to retired list June 18, 1918.

William Curry HARLLEE: Major, U. S. Marine Corps, April 7, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, July 1, 1918. Office of Chief of Gunnery Exercises and Engineering, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Officer in Charge, Small Arms Target Practice and as Executive Officer of National Rifle Matches, Quanitico, Va. Commended by the Major General Commandant for services rendered in the performance of his duties.

John Van Rensselaer HOFF: (Deceased); Colonel Medical Corps, U.S. Army (Retired). To actice [sic] duty April 7, 1917; Office of Surgeon General, U. S. Army, Washington, D.C.; relieved from active duty August 2, 1918.

Richmond Cranston HOLCOMB: Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps) [sic], U.S. Navy; promoted July 1, 1917 to Commander (Medical Corps), U.S. Navy. Assistant to Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; U. S. S. Havana; Medical Aide to Commandant, Third Naval District; Command of Naval Hospital, League Island, Pa., and additional duty in connection with construction of Hospital Ship No. 1; Additional duty as Inspector, representing the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, in connection with construction of Hospital Unit No. 1.

Nevil Monroe HOPKINS: Major, (Ordnance Department), U. S. Army, November 21, 1917. Office of Chief of Ordnance, Nitrate Division, War Department, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged March 10, 1919.

Lyman Walter Vere KENNON: (Deceased); Colonel, U. S. Army, April 7, 1917; Brigadier-General, August 5, 1917. Commanded Ninetieth Division of Infantry; 161st Depot Brigade, Camp Greene, N.C.; Eighty-sixth Division, Camp Grant, Ill.; 171st Infantry, Brigade, Camp Grant, Ill.; Commanded Camp Greene, N.C.

Jacob Miller KENYON: First Lieutenant, District of Columbia National Guard, Captain Military Intelligence Division, General Staff, U. S. Army, September 3, 1918. Honorably discharged March 8, 1919. Captain Reserve Corps, U.S. Army (Quartermaster Section), January 24, 1920; Major, April 19, 1920. Assisted Major General CROWDER in the examination of appeals from drafted men from District Boards. Honorably discharged March 8, 1919.

Alexander Brown LEGARE: Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy. Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged November 26, 1919.

John Clifton LITTLE: Enlisted in U.S. Naval Reserve Force, December 15, 1917; Commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., May 29, 1918; Lieutenant (Junior Grade), October 1, 1918. U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.; Aviation Regiment, Naval Operating Base, L. I.,; U.S. Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla.; Operation and Maintenance (Aviation); Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.

Chester Walker LOCKWOOD: Enlisted April 7, 1917, in U.S. Navy; Commissioned Ensign January 27, 1918 (U.S. Navy Force). Third Naval District, New York, N. Y.; Relieved from active duty March 8, 1919.

John Alexander LOCKWOOD: Colonel U.S.A. (Retired). Assigned active duty, Fort Leavenworth, Field Officer, Plattsburg Training Camp; Commanding Officer Hahnemann Medical College, Students' Army Training Corps; Relieved from active duty November 15, 1918.

Samuel McGOWAN: Rear Admiral, Pay Corps, U.S. Navy; The Paymaster General, U.S. Navy and Chief of Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility.

Frederick William MATTESON: Captain, Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army, May 2, 1917; Major, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army, August 26, 1918. Assistant Depot Quartermaster, Boston, Mass.; Newport News, Va.; Assistant to Depot Quartermaster, Port of Embarkation and Assistant to Quartermaster in Charge of Construction at Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Va.; Assistant Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D.C.; in charge of Transport and Storage Division, Office of Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D.C.; Zone Executive Officer, Zone Supply Office, Washington, D.C. Recommended for Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services.

John Twiggs MYER: Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, April 7, 1917; Brigadier- General, July 1, 1918. Fleet Marine Officer, Atlantic Fleet; Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.; Commanded Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S.C., and Quantico, Va.; Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, T.H. Recommended for the Navy Cross for distinguished service as Fleet Marine Officer, Atlantic Fleet.

William Otway OWEN: Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army (Retired). To active duty May 31, 1916. Surgeon General's Office, War Department; Curator, Army Medical Museum. Relieved from active duty January 7, 1919.

Armistead PETER, III: Enlisted December 14, 1917, U.S. Navy; Commissioned Ensign August 29, 1918. Government Radio Station, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Radio Receiving Station, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Radio for Air Craft Division; Bureau Steam Engineering; Relieved from service, December 19, 1918.

David Dixon PORTER: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; Colonel, July 1, 1918. Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. Recommended for Navy Cross for distinguished services in the line of his profession.

Lester Amos PRATT: Enlisted November 10, 1917, in United States Army; Commissioned Second Lieutenant September 18, 1918; First Lieutenant October 21, 1919. El Paso, Texas, in Quartermaster Corps; Motor Transport Corps, Unit No. 305, Camp Jessup, Atlanta, Ga.; Office of Chief of Motor Transport Corps, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged July 19, 1919.

Butler Delaplain PRICE: (Deceased); Brigadier-General, U.S. Army, Retired. Medal of Honor Board, War Department, Washington, D.C.

Russell Benjamin PUTNAM: Major, Assistant Paymaster, U.S. Marine Corps. Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.; in Charge Office of Assistant Paymaster, Marine Corps, Atlanta, Ga.; First Provisional Brigade, U.S. Marines, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Recommended for the Navy Cross for distinguished services in connection with the establishment and administration of the office of the Assistant Paymaster, Marine Corps, Atlanta, Ga.

Irving Wallace RAND: Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army; Colonel, May 15, 1917. Surgeon China Expedition; Commanded Base Hospital, Camp Travis, Texas; Detached duty at Washington, D.C., Markeltown, Pa.

George RICHARDS: Brigadier-General, The Paymaster, U.S. Marine Corps. Served as The Paymaster, U.S. Marine Corps, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service in the organization and administration of his department.

Edward Fisk RIGGS: Major, District of Columbia National Guard (Retired). Assisted with other National Guard Officers in instructing recruits and drafted men for the regular service at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C.

Horace Dodge ROUZER: Lieutenant Commander (Civil Engineer), U.S. Navy. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Reeves RUSSELL: Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, (Retired). To active duty July 1, 1917; member of Courts-Martial Boards, Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Virginia. Relieved from active duty August 8, 1919.

John Prentiss SANGER: Major General, U.S. Army (Retired). To active duty April 7, 1917; Medal of Honor Board; Relieved to retired list June 6, 1917.

Guy Tyrrell SCOTT: Captain, U.S. Army, (Retired) April 7, 1917; to active duty August 12, 1917; Major., October 10, 1918. Commanded Coast Defenses of New Bedford, Mass., and Fort Rodman; Relieved from active duty December 14, 1918.

Richard Douglas SIMMS: (Deceased); Brigadier-General Commanding District of Columbia National Guard. No active Federal Service; Commanding District of Columbia National Guard.

John Culver BARCALOW: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.

Richard Vermillion BARRY: Navy Department.

Marcus BENJAMIN: Volunteer Aid, Bureau of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Member Home Defense League; also consulted during the war as an expert on various technical and scientific matters. Decorated by the French Government with the Palmes academique with the rank of Officier de l'Instruction publique.

Robert Sidney BELKNAP: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.

Adopphus Bogardus BENNETT, Jr.: Medical Advisory Board, Number Four, District of Columbia; Navigation Inspector under Department of Commerce.

Barry BULKLEY: Local director of the Serbian Relief Committee; Speaker for the Liberty Loan Drives and Red Cross.

Francis Mason BURROWS: Department of Commerce.

Henry Buchanan BYRD, Sr.: Liberty Loan Drives.

Edward Kernan CAMPBELL: Chief Justice, U.S. Court of Claims.

William Ridgely CHAPLINE, Jr.: U.S. Forestry Service.

John Whitsitt CHILDRESS: United States Government Printing Office.

Robert Smith CHILTON: United States Consul, Coburg, Canada.

Francis Warfield Herrick CLAY: (Deceased), Assistant Commissioner of Patents..

Ira Broadwell CONKLING: (Deceased), Clerk, Interstate Commerce Commission.

Samuel Treadway CONKLING: Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

John Holmes CONVERSE: Office of the Auditor for the War Department.

William Van Zandt COX: Commissioned by the President of the United States, a member of Local Draft Board for Division No. 10, District of Columbia.

Charles Francis DIGGS: Member of Legal Advisory Board, Washington, D.C.; Liberty Loan Drives.

Edward W. DONN, Jr.: Designed U.S. Powder Factory and Naval Proving Grounds, Indian Head, Maryland; Red Cross Drives.

Irving Hall DUNLAP: U.S. Fisheries Commission; Red Cross and Liberty Loan Subscriptions.

Harry Lyman DUNWOODY: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.

Milton Courtwright ELLIOTT: Consul for Federal Reserve Board; Counsel for War Finance Corporation.

Frederick Worden Montrose GRAHAM: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.

Clarence Henning GREEN: Marshal, Treasury Department.

Frank Key GREEN: Marshal, U.S. Supreme Court.

Thomas Edward GREEN: American Red Cross; Special Speaker for War Department: Membership Campaign, American Red Cross, Speaker's Bureau; Speaker's Bureau, Treasury Department; Chairman in charge of Victory Liberty Loan.

Frank Edward GUERNSEY: Chairman, Public Safety Committee.

Robert Newton HARPER: Member Finance Committee, American Red Cross; Assisted in Liberty Loan and United War Work Drives.

James Malcolm HENRY: Registrar during period of drafting; clerk to Local Examination Board No. 2.

Samuel HERRICK: Volunteer Speaker, Liberty Loan, Red Cross, United War Work, and other campaigns; Four Minute Man under Committee on Public Information; Chairman Committee on Speakers of Armenian Relief Campaign; Acting Chairman Committee on Speaker, War Saving Campaign; Member Legal Advisory Board, Selective Draft, District of Columbia.

Alfred Byrne HORNER: Legal Advisory Board, Warrenton, Va.

Benjamin Grubb HUMPHREYS: Member of Congress, Mississippi.

Gaillard HUNT: Department of State.

Clair Aubrey HUNT: Bureau of Printing and Engraving.

Richard Washburn HYNSON: Liberty Loan and Red Cross Drives.

Ralph Jenkins: President District of Columbia Society, American Red Cross.

Arthur Keith: U.S. Geological Survey.

Charles Ford LANGWORTHY: Department of Agriculture.

George Robbins SIMPSON: Major, U.S. Army. Eighth Infantry Company, Fifth Provisional Training Regiment Officers Training Camp, Fort Myer, Va., 1917.

Franklin Topping STEELE: Captain, National Naval Volunteers, Marine Corps Branch, April 6, 1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, August 6, 1917; First Lieutenant, August 8, 1917; Captain July 1, 1918. Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa.; Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va.; Marine Corps Rifle Range, Winthrop, Md.; Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.

Pierre Christie STEVENS: (Deceased); Major, U.S. Army, (Retired). To active duty November 20, 1917; Acting Quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D.C.; relieved from active dtuy [sic] March 5, 1919.

John Truesdale STEWART: Major, (Engineers), U.S. Army, April 18, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, October 18, 1918. Fort Snelling, Minn., Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Office of Chief of Engineers, Equipment Section, War Department, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged October 13, 1919.

Lloyd Webb TAYLOR: Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Aeronautics, Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas; Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida; to inactive duty as Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Honorably discharged September 23, 1919; Officers Reserve Corps October 29, 1919.

George Cyrus THORPE: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; Colonel, July 1, 1918. Staff Naval War College, Chief of Staff Second Brigade U.S. Marines; Commanding Third Regiment of Marines and Eastern District, Dominican Republic; received surrender of Vicentico Evangelista Revolutionists in 1917; in field against Natera Insurgents; rendered valuable services in establishing peace and order in that country.

Charles Trowbridge TITTMANN: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, October 9, 1918; Captain, April, 1919; Major, September, 1919. Camp Upton, N.Y.; Judge Advocate General's Department, Camp Humphreys, Va.; Office Judge Advocate General, Washington, D.C., as member of Special Clemency Board. Honorably discharged July 30, 1920.

John Van RENSSELAER: Captain, Medical Corps, U.S. Army. Rockefeller Institute, New York, N.Y.; General Hospital No. 3, Colonia, N.J. Honorably discharged May 15, 1919.

Alexander Mackenzie WATSON: Captain U.S. Marine Corps; Major, May 22, 1917. U.S.S. Oklahoma; Division Marine Officer, Sixth Division, Atlantic Fleet; Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. Commended by the Major General Commandant for excellent and efficient services rendered during demobilization of the Fourth and Fifth Brigades of Marines.

Francis Bradford WHEATON: Major, Quartermaster Reserve Corps, U.S. Army, June 6, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, Quartermaster Corps, March 19, 1918. Office of Officer in Charge of Cantonment Construction, Washington, D.C.; Temporary duty throughout the United States and at Honolulu, T.H. Commissioned regular service, Major, Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army.

George Yandes WHEELER: Captain, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, February 9, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance and with Administration Division, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C. Department Ordnance and Armament Officer, Panama Canal Department, Canal Zone. Honorably discharged April 8, 1919.

Harry Marshall WHEELER: Captain, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, February 1, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance and with Administration Division, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C. Honorably discharged December 12, 1918.

Dion WILLIAMS: Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps. General Board of Navy, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.; Commanded 10th Regiment, U.S. Marines at Quantico, Va.; Commanding Fourth Regiment of Marines, Santo Domingo, D.R.; and District Commander of the Northern District of Santo Domingo.

Leonard WOOD: Major General, U.S. Army. Commanded Camp Funston, Kansas; Commanded Eastern Department; with British Mission to the United States; Commanded Sougheattern Department; Detached service inspecting camp sites; Commanded Eighty-ninth Division; Observer with British and French Armies in France, (wounded there); Commanded Western Central Department, Chicago, Ill. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for especially meritorious and conspicuous service as Department Division and Camp Commander during the war; Decorated by Italy, as an Officer of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus.

Walter Fitzhugh WORTHINGTON: Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy. Naval Inspector of Engineering Material, New York, N.Y., and New Jersey District; Relieved from all active duty March 8, 1919.


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