The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-27

Boston Globe. Mai. Gen. Joseph .
Pershing named by the president to /
lead the first division OF United States ,
troops TO fight ON the soil of France. |
is an American of whom all sections !
OF the country may feel proud
Here are some pertinent facts about
him.
He is from Missouri
His first service as an officer was
as an Indian fighter under Gen Nelson
A. Miles.
He is veteran of warfare against
the Apaches and the Sioux, of the war
with Spain, Of hard bush campaigns
against the Moros in the Philippines,
and of the punitive campaign of 1916
in Mexico.
He is 81 years old and widower.
his wife and three young daughters
having lest their lives in the burning
OF their home at the officers quarters
in the Presidio, San Francisco. on
August II, 1915
II is said of General Pershng that
he is the ideal West Pointer-a man
OF iron, a great organizer, a fearless
fighter clever diplomat and beneath
1t all very much man.
An anecdote illustrating the latter
point is told OF his return to his home
town a few years ago.
The first person he sought out was
Aunt Susan Hewitt, a friend OF his
mothers, whose pies were a memory
of his boyhood days.
When the whte.hairod Old lady and
the stentaced soldier met. both
wept; and when that night. a recep-
ton was given in honor of the gen.
eral he came for Aunt Susan TO
take her to the party in a buggy
As an administrator Gen Pershing
has shown great powers Like Grant.
Sherman and Sheridan, he arrived at
military efficiency through plodding
labor as a quartermaster and in other
Jobs involving much labor and atten-
tion to detail
As a diplomat he showed his merit
in the trying eleven months his puni.
tive expedition spent in Mexico. His
orders were to put the soft stop" on
the situation wherever possible for
the administration, possibly foreseeing
that the world war would drag in the
United States, was bent on pacifying
the MeXicanS, not rousing them.
Dlstasteful as such a course was TO
a soldier Pershing followed it in the
logical way He brought the benight.
ed MeNicans whom he met out of the
cloud Of suspicion that covered them
and made them understand that the
intentions Of the United States toward
the Mexican people were not hostile
Pershine's Life in Brief.
Leading dates in the life OF General
Pershing are as follows:
1850, oct 49, born at Laclede Linn
county, Mo, his father being a section
boss on a railroad.
1871 taught in country schools in
his native state.
1850. was graduated from ne Kirk.
vile Normal School
1856, was graduated from the T. s
Military Academy at West Point.
where he attained the school rank of
first cadet captain; assigned as a
second Lieutenant to the 9th cavalry
and fought against the Apachos i'm
New Mexico.
1856 to- September. 1890. ON duty at
Fort Stanton. N. NJ
1880, to- Feb. @, 1891. ON duty in the
Sioux campaign at the Pine Ridge
agency South Dakota.
1891 10 1888. professor OF military
tactics and science at the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
1892. oct 20, to 1898. oct. /. first
lieutenant of cavalry.
1888, oct H. to 1896. oct. 6. sta.
toned at Fort Assniboine. Mont. and
employed in administrative control of
Cree Indians
1891 on temporary duty at army
headquarters, Washington.
1897, June IL. to 1898. Nav . in.
structor in tactics al West Point
lN9N on duty with his regiment in
the Cuban campaign as Quartermaster
and acting adjutant; chief ordnance
officer, United States volunteers ON
duty at army headquarters.
lN'9, assistant adjutant general
United States volunteers
300. in charge of division of cus
toms and insular affairs. war dcpart.
ment; November, sent to the Philip
pines
Promoted over s62 Seniors.
1901 Adiutant general of the de-
partment Of Mindanao and Jolo. in the
field, campaign against insurrection.
lists; made captain in the lst cavalry
and began active service against the
Moros.
1903 Returned to the United States
after pacitying the Moros OF Minda
mao; served on the general staff
l9O5-Jan. 26, married at Washing
ton Miss Frances II. Warren. daughter
OF Senator F. f. Warren Of Wyoming
l9Ojl9OG Military attache 10 m,
United States legation at Toxic. and
with Gen. kuroki's army in the Man
churia campaign, as a neutral oh
server; Sept 20, 1906. made a brlra
dier general by President Roosevelt
who in recognition for his service.
IN the Philippines Jumped" him over
N62 officers who were his seniors. re
turned to the Philippines as command
er OF the department of Mindanao
lsO9-On sick leave In the Upiio,
states for several months
Returned from the phiip
mines having Iig1rt,,I ,,l ...