Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1861, Apr. 21 | Born, Ponchatoula, La. |
1882 | Graduated, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
1883 | Commissioned 1st lieutenant, Army Corps of Engineers |
1886 | Married Jeanne Bouligny |
1887 | Resigned army commission |
1892 | Published The Electric Railway in Theory and Practice. New York: W. J. Johnston Co. |
1896 | First president, Potomac Electric Power Co. of Washington, D.C. |
1900 | Trip to Abyssinia and the Egyptian Sudan |
1903 | Trip to Tibet and Turkestan |
1905 | Published Tibet and Turkestan. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons |
1910 | Published Strikes; When To Strike, How To Strike. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons |
1914 | Trip to Middle East and Far East |
1915 | Director, Commission for the Relief of Belgium; traveled to Belgium and northern France |
1917-1918 | Assistant secretary of the treasury |
1917-1919 | President, Inter-Ally Council on War Purchases and Finance |
1918-1919 | United States special commissioner of finance in Europe |
1919 | Published International War, Its Causes and Its Cure. London: Macmillan |
1926 | Published Adam and Eve. Boston, Mass: Stratford Co. |
1927 | Trip to South West Africa |
1936 | Trip to Tanganyika, Kenya, and Belgian Congo (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
1937 | Trip to Romania, Russia, Poland, and Germany |
1947, Jan. 2 | Died, Warrenton, Va. |