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unusual facts about John McArthur, Jr.



James Stanier Clarke

With John McArthur, a purser in the navy and secretary to Lord Hood at Toulon, he started the Naval Chronicle, a monthly magazine of naval history and biography, which ran for twenty years.

John McArthur

Following the capture of Corinth, McArthur took command of the 6th Division and was ordered to reinforce Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Army of Mississippi, stationed at Corinth.

John McArthur, Jr.

Until the late 20th century, an unwritten agreement among Philadelphia architects kept all buildings shorter than the top of the statue of William Penn atop McArthur’s tower.


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