OVERVIEW:
BORN:
April 15, 1837
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania,
DIED:
May 29, 1921 (age 84)
New York, New York
EDUCATION:
U.S. Military Academy (1860)
HIGHLIGHTS:
1860-1873
U.S Army/ Union Army
1864-1873:
Served as Aide-De-Camp to Generals Ulysses Grant and William Sherman
1869-1873:
Secretary to President Ulysses Grant
1869:
Assistant Secretary of War
1873:
Became Vice President of the Pullman Car Company
1897-1905:
U.S. Ambassador to France
1902:
Awarded Medal of Honor for gallantry at Chickamauga, Georgia on September 20, 1863,