Melvin A. Pingree Photograph Album 1865-1866

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Melvin A. Pingree Photograph Album 1865-1866

Melvin A. Pingree was a Northwestern University student in the 1860s. His photograph collection contains carte-de-visite photographs of Northwestern students and faculty, as well as Civil War soldiers and officers.

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Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

Pingree, Melvin A., 1845-1865 or 1866

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Melvin Augustine Pingree was born on September 7, 1845, in Woolwich, Maine. He entered Northwestern University after preparing at Northwestern University Preparatory School. A member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Pingree took his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern in 1865.  During the period following the Civil War he briefly worked as chief clerk and private secretary to James Harlan, then Andrew Johnson's Secretary of the Interior. Pingree died of yellow fever on August 23, ...