William P. Miller papers, 1943-1974.
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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...
Miller, William P., 1905-1973.
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Col. Andrew Deveaux, born in South Carolina, married Anna Maria Verplanck in 1797 and lived in Red Hook, New York. From the description of Colonel Andrew Deveaux - the South Carolina loyalist who recaptured the Bahamas from the Spaniards, 1943. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 387772006 Lieutenant colonel, United States Army Signal Corps. From the description of William P. Miller papers, 1943-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870845 ...