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4 unusual facts about Frederick E. Humphreys


Frederick E. Humphreys

He was called up with his regiment for Mexican Border service after Pancho Villa's raids in 1916, he served as an aide to Major General John F. O'Ryan, Commanding General of the New York (later 27th) Division.

2nd Lt. Humphreys deployed to Cuba during the Pacification Expedition, and a year later, returned to attend the Engineer Officer Basic Course.

After graduation and commissioning, he was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers and sent to Fort Riley, Kansas where he worked in bridge construction.

Frederick Humphreys

Frederick E. Humphreys (1883–1941), one of the original three military pilots trained by the Wright brothers


Edwin Vose Sumner

The II Corps, commanded during the war by Sumner, Darius N. Couch, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Andrew A. Humphreys, had the deserved reputation of being one of the best in the Eastern Theater.

Excelsior Brigade

Following the Battle of Chancellorsville, Col. William R. Brewster of the 73rd New York assumed command of the Excelsior Brigade, which was then in the division of Brig. Gen Andrew A. Humphreys.

Frederick Crane

Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), American lawyer and politician from New York

Frederick E. Toy

Toy's status as an MOH recipient, as well as the others awarded at Wounded Knee, was brought up during a congressional hearing on July 29, 1993, by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell who suggested their medals be rescinded given the controversial nature of the battle.

Frederick Humphreys

Frederick K. Humphreys (1816–1900), American physician; founder of Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Company

Frederick K. Humphreys

He was the personal physician of Theron T. Pond (?-1852), and Humphreys claimed that Pond gave him permission to manufacture Pond's Creams before he died.

Frederick Woodbridge

Frederick E. Woodbridge (1818–1888), American polician and lawyer from Vermont

Humphreys Peak

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Milton W. Humphreys

According to Edwin Mims (1872-1959), who served as Chair of the English Department at Vanderbilt University from 1912 to 1942, Humphreys was sickened to find out that Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (1859-1944) has already published a volume on research he had been doing for years.

Mississippi in the American Civil War

Prominent Mississippi generals during the war included William Barksdale, Carnot Posey, Wirt Adams, Earl Van Dorn, Robert Lowry, and Benjamin G. Humphreys.

Monmouth Beach, New Jersey

Frederick K. Humphreys (1816–1900), physician and the founder of Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Company.

Samuel Humphreys

Samuel, and his wife Letitia, had sons Andrew (1810-1883) and Joshua (1813–1873) who served in the Union Army and Confederate States Navy, respectively, in the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Turnage

Frederick E. Turnage, North Carolina city councillor and former mayor of Rocky Mount

William Y. Humphreys

Born in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, Humphreys attended the public schools and Sewanee Grammar School, Sewanee, Tennessee.


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