Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1828, Sept. 20 | Born, Newburgh, N.Y. |
| circa 1841 | Entered Geneva College (now Hobart College), Geneva, N.Y. |
| 1851 | M.D., Buffalo Medical College, Buffalo, N.Y. 1854 Entered military service |
| 1857 | Married Catherine Walden |
| 1858-1861 | Appointed by the army to a board to examine signaling principles Conducted field trial of signaling inventions in the Department of New Mexico |
| 1860 | Ordered to organize and command U.S. Army Signal Corps |
| 1860-1863 | Served under Benjamin Butler at Fort Monroe, Va., and then as chief signal officer under George Brinton McClellan in the Army of the Potomac |
| 1863 | Promoted to colonel in new U.S. Signal Corps, but removed him from his post as chief signal officer by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton |
| 1864 | Publication of Manual of Signals Appointed signal officer, Military Division of West Mississippi |
| 1864-1865 | Signal officer, Department of the Gulf Developed coding system for transmitting routine messages between land and sea forces |
| 1867-1880 | Chief signal officer, Signal Corps |
| 1873 | Proposed establishment world-wide of weather-reporting stations, International Meteorological Congress, Vienna, Austria |
| 1880, Aug. 24 | Died, Buffalo, N.Y |