Thomas J. Beans diaries, 1871-1912.

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Thomas J. Beans diaries, 1871-1912.

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Diaries, including front and back pages of accounts; together with one mailing wrapper of a U.S. Army Signal Corps (Signal Service) weather report.

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Historical Society of Moorestown

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Beans, Thomas J.

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Farmer, of Moorestown, N.J. From the description of Thomas J. Beans diaries, 1871-1912. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70977122 ...

United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...