Collection related to Edward Fitzgerald Beale, 1940-1983.
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Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822-1893
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Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) was a naval officer in California during the Mexican War, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California, organizer of the U.S. Camel Corps, and brigidier-general in the California state militia. Beale was also an explorer for wagon roads and railroads in the U.S. West, owner of Rancho El TejoĢn (Kern County, Calif.) and Decatur House (Washington, D.C.), and served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary. From the description of Collection related t...
Rolle, Andrew F.
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California and Western American historian Andrew F. Rolle graduated from Occidental College in 1943. He served as a military intelligence officer in Europe and as American Vice Consul in Genoa, Italy, from 1945 to 1948. He earned a PhD in history from UCLA in 1953 and taught at Occidental College from 1953 to 1988. Rolle studied psychoanalysis at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1976 and specialized in psychohistory. His published works include California: a history (1963), Th...
Cook, Laurence R.
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United States. Navy
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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...
United States. Army. Camel Corps
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In 1836, Army Major George H. Crosman encouraged the War Department to use camels for transportation. Around 1848, Major Henry C. Wayne conducted a more detailed study and recommended importation of camels to the War Department; his opinions agreed with those of then Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. When Davis was appointed as Secretary of War in 1853, he convinced the President and Congress to take the idea seriously, especially since US forces were required to operate in arid and desert...
Decatur House (Washington, D.C.)
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