The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-19

at that time a captain of the Nineteenth
infantry, assigned temporarily to Gen.
eral Skaters staff. He carried out
successfully the perilous mission and
was made famous by Ebert HuDbard's
essay on the feat. Major Rowan was
appointed TO West Point from West
Virginia in 1877, and on graduating was
assigned as second lieutenant to the
Fifteenth He became first lieutenant
of the Ninth infantry in 1890, served
with the same rank in the Nineteenth
infantry, and in 1898 was made captain
After he had taken the message to Gar
cja he was assigned to the Sixth lnfan-
try and served as lieutenant colonel
during the war. He was commissioned
major of the Fifteenth in 1900.
Major James NJ. Afrasmith rose from
the ranks TO his present commission
He enlisted in company 3, Fourth cav
airy. in 1872, and served five years as
private, corporal and sergeant. In 1889
he re-enlisted as private in company
c, Seventh cavalry. served as private
and corporal till 1888. when he was pro-
NOTED to second lieutenant of the Sec
Ond infantry. He attended the lnfan-
try and Cavalry school and graduated
i'm 1887. In 1891 he was made first lieu
tenant of the Eighth infantry, and at
the Apening of hOstiliues with Spain
was promoted 20 eaptaincy. He was
assigned TO the Thirteenth in 1899, and
made chief of the conlmissary subsist-
ence department with the rank of ma
jor from January until June of that
year He was transferred to the Eight
zenith infantry in 1900. and Received his
present commission a. major of the
Fifteenth year ago.
The Regimental Adjutant.
Captain WiHk Uine, regimental adj
jutant, graduated from the military
academy in the class of 1890. and was
made second lieut. enant of the Twelfth
infantry. He was p.cmOted to first
lieutenant and transferred to the Elev-
enth in 1897. He graduated from the
Infantry and Cavalry school the same
year. In 1898 he was transferred TO
the Twelfth, and in 1899 became cap
tain in the Fifteenth. He was made
adjutant of the regiment last year.
Captain Samuel Z. Smiley has a dis
tinguished war record IN the Philip
pines. He was on the personal staff of
General Bates, and went through some
of the hardest campaigning in the ISL
auds. Captain Smiley was appointed
to West Point in 1881 from New Jer-
sey. On his graduation he was as
signed to the Eighth infantry as second
lieutenant. He was transferred to the
Fifteenth and promoted to first lieu
tenant in 1892 and became captain
when he was assigned to the stan of
General Bates in 1899. At present Cap
tain Smiley is acting major during the
occupancy of the new post.
Captain Joseph Clemens, the regi-
mental chaplain. is a graduate of Dick
iEsOn college. and of the central Penn
sylvania conference course of theology,
He was appointed chaplain of the army
and assigned to the Fifteenth in 1901.
Captain John MICA. Palmer graduated
from West Point in 1882, and was as
signed to the Fifteenth. He was pro-
noted to first lieutenant at the open
ing of the war, and serve as such I'M
til his promotion to a captaincy in 1901.
Captain Edgar T. Conley was recent
" transferred from the Eighth to the
Fifteenth regiment. He became sec
ond lieutenant in the Fifteenth on his
graduation from West Point in 1897. !
He was transferred to the Twenty first |
in 1898. and promoted TO first lieutenant
the following year. He was made cap
tain Of the Eighth infantry in 1902, and !
transferred to the Fifteenth "a few |
months ago.
Rose From the Ranks.
Captain William A. Cavenaugh rose /
from private to his commission. He |
graduated from the Kansas Agricul- /
tuTal college and enlisted in company |
d of the Twentieth infantry in 1896. /
When the war with Spain broke out 4
he was promoted from a corporal in 4
his company to second lieutenant in the 1
Twenty-second. He was transferred to ,
the Twentieth the same year. and PRO- 7
NOTED TO first lieutenant in 1899 In
1909 he graduated from the Infantry /
and Cavalry school and was transferred 4
to the Eighth infantry The game year 4
he was promoted to captain of The /
Sixth. and was transferred TO the Fiji /
teenth eighteen months ago.
Captain Thomas r. Harker. regi- /
mental cOmmissary and acting quarter
master, served for seven years in the |
ranks before receiving mis- commission. /
From 1891 TO 1898 he served as private,
corporal and sergeant in the TWen-
tieth infantry. In 1898 he was pro-
NOTED to second lieutenant in the Fiji
-eenth. The following year he was
made first lieutenant and was promoted
TO captain in 1903. He was made reg
mental comnissary last year.
Captain Bryan Conrad served in the
regular and volunteer armies prior to
his commission as an officer.
He served as private in troops A and
D, Fourth cavalry, from 1892 to 1895.
and in 1898 was commissioned first lieu
tenant Of the First Montana volunteer
He resigned after serving a
few months with the volunteers to ac-
-ept commission as second lieuten-
ant of the Eighteenth. He was made
first lieutenant in 1899, and transferred
10 the Fifteenth in 1902. He was pro-
noted to captain in 1905
captain James NJ. Love, jr, was APP
pointed second Lieutenant of the TWen-
-y-tiTst in 1895. The following year he
y as transferred to the Fifth and made
1rst lieutenant. in 1902 ne was trans
-erred TO the TWenty-first, and in 1905
made captain and assigned to the Fiji
eenth. He graduated from the Infan-
ry and Cavalry school i'm 1905.
Captain Frank W RoweH was an
pointed TO the army from Montana i'm
1893, being made second lieutenant in
he Second infantry He was made
irst lieutenant in the Fifth in 1900. and
transferred later to the Second. He
vas transferred TO the Eleventh in 1903.
md promoted to a captaincy in the
last year.
Enlisted as a Private.
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