SPANISH AMERICAN WAR WEST POINT CRIMINAL 1st US ART WWI COLONEL DOCUMENT SIGNED

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Here’s a West Point Document Signed by two Noted Military Officers:
SAMUEL CHRISMAN HAZZARD
(1869 - 1946)
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR WEST POINT 1
st
LIEUTENANT IN THE 1
st
US ARTILLERY WHO DESERTED FROM THE U.S. ARMY ON MAY 31, 1900 FOR STEALING FUNDS and BIGAMY
&
WEST POINT INSTRUCTOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES and ADJUTANT OF THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY 1895-1898!
Hazzard hailed from Pennsylvania and graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1893 (14
th
in his class). He ruined a promising military career by misappropriating Army funds. A drunk, lecher, and swindler, he had married twice before, and hadn’t bothered to divorce at least one of the wives when he married Linda Burfield Hazzard (1867-1938). There was a highly publicized trial for bigamy which ended in a two-year prison sentence for Lt. Hazzard.
His 3
rd
wife Linda B. Hazzard
was
an American quack doctor noted for her promotion of fasting as a treatment; she also wound up imprisoned for manslaughter by the State of Washington for a number of deaths resulting from this method of treatment at a sanitarium she operated there in the early 20th century. She was born in 1867 in Carver County, Minnesota, and died during a fast cure on herself in 1938!
-AND-
WILLIS VIRLIN MORRIS, SR.
(1876 - 1931)
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR WEST POINT CAVALRY LIEUTENANT SERVING
WITH HONOR AND DISTINCTION IN THE CHINA RELIEF EXPEDITION AND IN THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION
&
WWI COLONEL and INSPECTOR GENERAL, A.E.F.
Colonel Morris was one of the outstanding polo players of the Army. Throughout his career, he was a leader in the development of the game. Army polo was in its infancy when he joined the service. He was affectionately known as the father of Army polo. He captained the Army Polo Team which was the runner up in the tournament in the Argentine in 1930. He was in charge of the Army team at Mitchell Field. At a polo game on July 11, 1931, at the Meadow Brook Club, between the Governor's Island four and the Meadowbrook Vipers he was fatally injured by collision with an opposing player and died in the Nassau Hospital at Mineola on July 17.
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HERE’S A SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR DATE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY HAZZARD and MORRIS ON “
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, NEW YORK”
LETTERHEAD DATED JULY 28, 1899, - SPECIAL ORDERS No. 150, ADMITTING TO THE MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT CADET,
TRUMAN WILLIAM CARRITHERS
(1882 - 1918)
WEST POINT LT. COLONEL, US ARMY
Lt. Col. Truman William Carrithers Sr.: 1882-1918 Truman was a West Point graduate in 1903 and the youngest member of his class entering the academy at 16 years old. He died in 1918 at the age of 36 from the Spanish Flu epidemic that swept the nation that year.
THE DOCUMENT IS SIGNED BY
COL. WILLIS VIRLIN MORRIS ON THE VERSO.
The document measures 8” x 10, and is in very fine condition – Beautifully signed by Hazzard!
A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR & WWI MILITARY HISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!
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MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF LT. HAZZARD FROM CULLUM’S REGISTER
3525
(Born Pa.)
Samuel C. Hazzard
(Ap'd Pa.)
14
Military History.
— Cadet at the U. S. M. A., from June 15, 1889, to June 12, 1893, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
(Add. Second Lieut. of Artillery, 1st Artillery, June 12, 1893)
(Second Lieut. of Artillery, 5th Artillery, Sept. 10, 1893)
(Transferred to 1st Artillery, Oct. 27, 1893)
He joined the 1st Artillery, Sept. 30, and served at
Fort Hamilton, N. Y.
(at
Fort Columbus, N. Y.
, July 10 to Oct. 22, 1894), to Aug. 20, 1895; on duty at the U. S. M. A., West Point, N. Y., as Instructor of Modern Languages, Aug. 20, 1895 to Oct. 19, 1898; as (Adjutant of the U. S. Military Academy) June 18, 1898
(First Lieut. of Artillery, 1st Artillery, March 2, 1899)
to Aug. 14, 1899; with battery at
Fort Terry, N. Y.
, to Dec. 4, 1899;
en route
to
Key West Barracks, Fla.
, to Feb., 1900; absent without leave, Feb. 28 to May 31, 1900, when he was
Dropped from the rolls of the Army, May 31, 1900,
in accordance with § 1229, R. S.
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“A COUPLE OF H
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Linda Burfield Hazzard
was the first doctor in the United States to earn a medical degree as a "fasting specialist." Fasting had heretofore been considered a quack medical cure, popular with "health faddists" of the time. In 1908 she published a book, Fasting For The Cure Of Disease, promoting fasting as a cure for virtually every ailment, including cancer.
There was more bad publicity after she met and married the man of her dreams, Samuel Christman Hazzard, a West Point Graduate who had ruined a promising military career by misappropriating Army funds. A drunk, lecher, and swindler, he had married twice before, and hadn’t bothered to divorce at least one of the wives when he married Linda. There was a highly publicized trial for bigamy which ended in a two-year prison sentence for Hazzard.
After Hazzard finished his sentence in 1906, the couple set out for Washington state to start over. Linda Hazzard began practicing in Seattle, commuting by ferry from a 40-acre spread in the Kitsap County town of Olalla she named Wilderness Heights. She planned to build a big sanitarium there some day.
She created a "sanitarium", Wilderness Heights, in Olalla, Washington, where in-patients fasted for days, weeks or months, with a diet of small amounts of tomato and asparagus soup and little else. While some patients survived and publicly sang her praises, more than 40 patients died under her care, most from starvation. Local residents knew the place as "Starvation Heights."
In 1912 she was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Claire Williamson, a wealthy British woman of 33 years, who weighed less than 50 pounds at the time of her death. At the trial it was proved that Hazzard had forged Williamson's will and stole most of her valuables.
Claire's sister, Dora, also took the treatment, and only survived because a family friend showed up in time to remove her from the compound. She was too weak to leave on her own, weighing less than 60 pounds. She later testified against Claire Hazzard at trial.
After only 2 years in prison, she reopened her sanitarium in 1920. Though it burned to the ground shortly thereafter and was never rebuilt, its legend is still powerful in Olalla, and visitors to the grounds as recently as a decade ago have still found remnants of her presence in trash and debris in the underbrush. Her book continues to influence a small fasting movement to this day, with proponents claiming it as a true cure-all.
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MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF COL. WILLIS V. MORRIS
USMA Class of 1900. Cullum No. 3953.
Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
, June 9, 1932, The Monroe Printing Co., Inc., Newburgh, New York.
Willis Virlin Morris
No. 3953. Class of 1900.
Died July 1, 1931, at Mineola, Long Island, New York, aged 55 years.
Willis Virlin Morris, Sr., was born at Marion, Indiana on January 12, 1876; the son of Byron and Elizabeth Fay Morris. He entered West Point in June 1896 and graduated with his class in 1900. The outstanding soldierly qualities which marked his entire career brought him the successive appointments of Cadet Corporal, First Sergeant and Cadet Adjutant. His sterling honesty and his loyalty to his associates in the troublous times of his first-class camp resulted in his demotion, but established him even more firmly in the affection of his friends.
On graduation, he joined his troop of the 6th Cavalry in China and served in that regiment with honor and distinction in the China Relief Expedition and in the Philippine Insurrection. He returned with the regiment to the United States in 1903 and took part in the national pistol match at Sea Girt in that year. From 1904 to 1908 he was instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy. At the end of this duty he rejoined the 6th Cavalry at Jolo, Philippine Islands, serving with the regiment as troop commander and regimental adjutant until 1915 and taking part in the expedition to Vera Cruz, October 3 to October 15, 1914. In 1915, he was assigned to the 9th Cavalry, then in the Philippines and was on duty at Camp Stotsenburg with that organization until 1917.
In August 1917, he was given the temporary rank of Lieutenant Colonel and appointed as Department Inspector of the Philippine Department. He was Inspector General of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia in 1918, with the rank of Colonel, Inspector General. In 1919 he returned to the United States and became assistant to the department inspector, Southern Department, later Corps Area inspector, Eighth Corps Area, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He then attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1924, served in the office of the Chief of Cavalry in Washington from 1924 to 1927 and was editor of the Cavalry Journal during that period. At the termination of this duty he took the course at the Army War College, graduating in 1928 and was placed on the eligible list for the General Staff. He commanded the 9th Cavalry from August 1928 to July 1929 at Fort Riley and was in addition the Executive Officer of the Cavalry School. He was then assigned to duty at Headquarters of the Second Corps Area at Governor's Island, was detailed to the General Staff Corps and served as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 at those headquarters.
Colonel Morris was one of the outstanding polo players of the Army. Throughout his career, he was a leader in the development of the game, rightly considering it to be of inestimable value in promoting the efficiency of the arm to which he had devoted his life. Army polo was in its infancy when he joined the service. His energy and foresight in organizing regimental teams and in developing players, have been a large factor in establishing polo in the army. He was affectionately known as the father of Army polo. He captained the Army Polo Team which was the runner up in the tournament in the Argentine in 1930. He was in charge of the Army team at Mitchell Field. At a polo game on July 11, 1931, at the Meadow Brook Club, between the Governor's Island four and the Meadowbrook Vipers he was fatally injured by collision with an opposing player and died in the Nassau Hospital at Mineola on July 17.
Colonel Morris was married on June 20, 1904 to Genevieve Alexander and is survived by his wife, by two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Lieutenant Clark Ruffner, 10th Cavalry and Katherine, wife of Lieutenant Earl F. Thomson, 13th Cavalry and by his son Willis Virlin Morris, Jr.
Willis Morris had the affection and respect of all who knew him. His career has done honor to the Military Academy and to the Army, which he has served so well.
G.B.P.
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BIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL CARRITHERS
Born July 28, 1882, Saunemin, Illinois.
Officer U. S. Army. Commissioned from U. S. M. A., West Point, June 7, 1903.
World War Service: Gatun, Canal Zone, June 1, 1917, Major of Infantry.
Transferred to General Staff Corps, Washington, D. C., April 15, 1918.
Promoted to Lieut. Col., August 7, 1918.
Died at Washington, D. C., October 17, 1918.
Buried at National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
(From the Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York) Lieutenant Colonel Truman Williams Carrithers, a son of Judge C. F. H. Carrithers and Lou Brydia Carrithers, was born at Saunemin, Illinois, on July 28, 1882. The family moved to Fairbury, Illinois, the following year. He was a graduate of the Fairbury High School, class of 1898, before reaching the age of sixteen years. He entered West Point in June, 1899, the youngest member of his class; graduated in June, 1903, and received his commission as second lieutenant seven weeks before he attained the age of twenty-one. He was assigned to the 20th Infantry, which was then stationed at Fort Sheridan, and took part in the manoeuvers at West Point, Kentucky, with his regiment in the fall of 1903. In December of that year the 20th Infantry was ordered to the Philippines and took station in Manila. After a year in Manila and six months at the new post of Fort William McKinley, he was ordered to Southern Mindanao with his regiment in July, 1905, serving at Cotobato, Reigne Regente, and the lonely outpost of Fort Pikit. He was made Battalion Quartermaster before returning to the States with his regiment in the spring of 1906.
The regiment had just reached its home station, Monterey, California, when the great earthquake and fire occurred at San Francisco. He took a wagon train loaded with supplies overland to San Francisco and immediately upon arrival he entered with indefatigable energy upon the task of relief, working constantly for eighty hours without sleep. After seventy-five days of arduous duty the regiment returned to Monterey, where he was assistant to the Quartermaster until the regiment was again ordered to the Philippines. Three months after his arrival there he was promoted to the grade of first lieutenant and ordered to join the 29th Infantry, his battalion being stationed at Fort Niagara, New York. After one year of service there he was sent to Evansville, Indiana, as recruiting officer of that district. He served in that capacity for two years, and while the district was far from the most populous, he placed it fourth in rank in the United States in the number of accepted candidates. In March, 1913, he was ordered to join the 22d Infantry, then on duty at Texas City. A year later he was sent to Fort Sam Houston and was Post Adjutant there for a year and a half. In September, 1915, he rejoined his regiment at Douglas, Arizona, and was ordered a month later to the 29th Infantry at Panama.
In 1916 he was promoted to the grade of captain and joined the newly organized 33d Infantry at Gatun, where he was later appointed Post Adjutant. He was promoted to major in that regiment in 1917, and was for a short time its commanding officer. In the spring of 1918 he was selected by a board of general officers for duty on the general staff and ordered to Washington, D. C. He was assigned to duty with the legislative branch of the general staff at the Army War College and while serving there was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. It was the keenest disappointment of his life that he could not be assigned to overseas duty and take part in the active fighting of the world war. Some had to remain to carry on the work at home and those to whom fell that unfortunate lot worked with infinite zeal and energy ; and so he served, early and late, until stricken by the terrible epidemic of influenza that swept the country. He was taken ill October 1, removed to Walter Reed Hospital on the 6th and died there October 17.
The funeral took place October 19, 1918. A squadron of dismounted cavalry from Fort Myer, led by its band, escorted the cortege. The pallbearers were six members of the West Point class to which the deceased belonged. A large detail of officers from the War College Section of the General Staff represented the War Department. Thus the remains of the youngest member of his class B. J., as he was popularly known at the Academy were taken to their resting place in a beautiful spot in the National cemetery at Arlington.
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Lt Col Truman William Carrithers
Birth
28 Jul 1882, Saunemin, Livingston County, Illinois, USA
Death
16 Oct 1918 (aged 36)
, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Burial
Arlington National Cemetery
,
Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia,
Plot
Section 3, Lot 4010
Truman Carrithers graduated from West Point in 1903.
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