William Graham Clarke was born in August 1873 and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1885 from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. He became a citizen of the United States of America on October 24 1894. During the War with Spain, William served in Battery...
John Edmund Colthurst was born in Chicago November 29, 1871 in the South Loop, just a few blocks away from where the Great Fire had passed a month prior. He joined the Navy at Mare Island in California in 1893 and served as a yeoman on various ships in Admiral George...
On Oct. 25, 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first African American to hold star rank in the U.S. Army and in the armed forces. He was promoted to brigadier general, temporary — a situation with which he was all too familiar, as his promotions to major,...
