page_title: Albert J. Myer
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Albert J. Myer / Legacy
context_page_description: Albert James Myer was a surgeon and United States Army general. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wig-wag signaling, and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
context_section_description: Myer is honored by several entities: Fort Whipple, Virginia, was renamed Fort Myer in 1881; U.S. Army cable ship Albert J. Myer built in 1945 serving Army Signal Corps 1952-1966 then U.S. Navy service 1966-1994; the Albert J. Myer Center, the Signal Headquarters building of the U.S. Army Communication Electronics Command (CECOM) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; and the General Albert J. Myer Forecast Facility at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Hobart College awarded Myer an honorary LL.D. degree in 1872 and Union College conferred an honorary Ph.D. on him in 1875.
caption: Portrait of Myer by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1876
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