George Clayton Foulke papers, [ca. 1876-1889].

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George Clayton Foulke papers, [ca. 1876-1889].

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Personal and official papers, chiefly as Naval Agent and Charge d'Affaires, U.S. Legation, Korea, and as representative, American Trading Company, in Japan. Includes a copy of a letter from President Chester A. Arthur. A diary, 1884, of travel in Korea, miscellaneous records for his U.S. Navy service, photographs and a few printed items, included. Also, a small group of correspondence of Harold J. Noble with member of the Foulke family, 1927-1928.

460 items in 2 boxes.Journeys in Korea, by George Clayton Foulk; a diary, 1884 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 844:1) and positive.

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Noble, Harold Joyce, 1903-1953

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Harold Joyce Noble, 1903-1953, was born in Korea of American missionary parents, and returned to that country in 1926 in order to gather materials for his 1931 University of California doctoral dissertation, "Korea and her Relations with the United States before 1895." He later became Professor of History at the University of Oregon, and in 1946 was a foreign correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. In 1948 he was appointed a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Gener...

American Trading Company.

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Allen, Chester Alan, 1829-1886.

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Foulke, George Clayton, 1856-1893.

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George Clayton Foulk, born in Marietta, Pennsylvania in 1856, was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1876 and served for two years in the Far East. Following a trip across Siberia in 1882, he accepted a post at the Naval Library in Washington, D.C. In 1884 he was appointed as Naval Attache to the American Legation in Korea, and with the resignation of the minister in 1885 he became chief United States representative at the court of the Korean king. Although he was invited to becom...

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...