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There are numerous other sources that did not have any information about Vern: |
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Alaska Communications System Records 1900-1970 [manuscript] |
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Historical Library ‘0011 MS’, Annual Reports, nothing specific |
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Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, Juneau, Alaska |
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The Alaskan Cable System, Unites States Army Signal Corps, 1925, U.S. G.P.O.; |
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Historical Library ‘TK5613.U65 1925 VF’, no specific names |
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Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, Juneau, Alaska |
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‘Fairbanks Daily Times’ (newspaper), some ‘Signal Corps’ articles, many about the |
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[smaller] Signal Corps post in Fairbanks, and only officers name in most articles; |
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Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, Newspaper microfilm, Juneau, Alaska |
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(1) May 25, 1912 ‘Signal Corps stations’, pg.3, mentions ‘Corp. Gooden’ |
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(2) May 26, 1912 ‘Signal Corps men leave’, pg.4 [Vern is not on the list of names] |
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{3) June 12, 1912 ‘Signal Corps officers’ pg.4 [Officers, change of command] |
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[map] ‘Military reservation, Fort Gibbon, Alaska, 1900-1923’, photocopy depicting |
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Fort Gibbon. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Library Archives, Anchorage |
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Reference Library inquiries at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library |
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[CARL], Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, re 1912 ‘Fort Gibbon’, ‘bad beef’ and/or |
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‘food poisoning’, and ‘Signal Corps’ could not find anything relevant. |
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Alden C. Knowles / Born in New York, N. Y., Feb. 1873; Served in Cuba with 13th |
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Inf. during Spanish-American War; Wounded in Santiago Campaign, 1898; Served as |
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2ud Lieut., 13th Inf., Apr. 1891 to Feb. 1901; Promoted 1st Lieut., 25th Inf., Feb. 2. 1901; |
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Assigned to 13th Inf.. Dec. 1901; Graduate, Infantry and Cavalry School, 1906; |
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Graduate, Army Signal School, 1907; Promoted Captain, 30th Inf., Oct. 1, 1907; |
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Assigned to Signal Corps. June 12, 1909 [arrived at Fort Gibbon, Alaska, October 1910]; |
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Assigned to 14th Inf., April 2, 1912 [Left Fort Gibbon, Alaska, June 1912]; Assigned to |
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2nd Inf., Sept. 1914; Promoted Major, Infantry, May 1917; Promoted Lieut. Col., Nat’l |
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Army, Aug. 1917; Assigned to 510th Inf., National Army, Aug. 1917; Assigned as |
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Commanding Officer, 315th Inf., National Army, July 27, 1918; Promoted Colonel, |
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510th Inf., Nat’l Army, July 30, 1918; Commanded 315th Inf. through the entire period |
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of operations in France and until its final demobilization at Camp Dix, N. J., June 1919. |
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[315th Inf.] http://314th.org/books/The-Official-History-of-the-315h-Infantry-USA.txt |
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Sternwheelers, Riverboats, Transportation, and “Fairbanks, Alaska's Golden Heart.” |
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The State of Alaska: A Guide to its Past, Present, and Future |
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XXVII. TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION (Historic Information) |
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http://www.stateofalaskaguide.com/xxvii-trade-and-transportation.htm |
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St. Michael to Tanana, 10-14 days, 900 miles up the Yukon River |
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http://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article.php?artID=174 |
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Fairbanks, Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fairbanks,_Alaska |
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Tanana Valley Railroad, http://www.fairnet.org/agencies/tvrr/history.html |
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Coatesville Cemetery, Vern W. McAninch, Find A Grave Memorial No. 18579763 |
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Photograph online at http://www.findagrave.com [Thank You, Jessica Felix] |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.3 / July 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-32 |