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On April 16, Corporal Woodman was pro- moted from the rank of corporal to that of sergeant, and assigned to the Ist Platoon of Company A. On the 23d, he received the
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gold service stripe denoting six months' service in the advance zone.
On July 17, Sergeant Woodman was noti- fied by his company commander, Captain Bartlett, that he had been commissioned second lieutenant, and was assigned to the 5th Division, 7th Engineers, Company A. This was the famous "Red Diamond" Divi- sion, a Regular Army organization. He joined the division August 6.
On November I, Lieutenant Woodman was commissioned first lieutenant, United States Engineers. The following is a quota- tion of the official records :
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES A. P. O. No. 745
June 9th, 1919.
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 15.
I. The following officers and enlisted men are cited in orders for distinguished conduct in action : *
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First Liteutenant Karl A. Woodman, 7th Engineers.
On the night of August 18th 1918, near Frappelle, France, while commanding his platoon, which was engaged in constructing barbed wire entanglements in front of the combat groups, Lieutenant Woodman displayed great courage and leadership in breaking up an enemy counter attack, causing heavy casualties in the enemy raiding party.
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By Command of MAJOR-GENERAL ELY. C. A. TROTT, Chief of Staff.
OFFICIAL:
DAVID P. WOOD, Lieutenant-Colonel, Infantry, Division Adjutant.
A TRUE COPY :
G. B. LAGUARDIA,
Captain, 7th Engineers, Regiment Adjutant.
On July 5, Lieutenant Woodman received the following communication from head- quarters, 7th United States Engineers :
In compliance with telephonic instructions, received this date from Division Headquarters, the following
named officers and enlisted men of this regiment have been selected to take the Regimental Colors to Paris :
First Lieutenant Karl A. Woodman, Company A. Master Engineer Richard J. Tobin, Hdg. Det. Sgt. Ist Cl. Harry W. Campbell, Company A. Private Albert Baker, Company A. Private Paul H. Ross, Company C.
(Signed) W. M. HOGE, Major, 7th Engineers, For Colonel E. G. Paules.
This was a distinct honor for Lieutenant Woodman, since each regiment of the Army of Occupation was to be represented by only one officer in the "Allied Peace Parades" in Paris and in London. The colors of the regiment were attached to Gen- eral Pershing's "Composite Regiment," com- posed of officers and men who had distin- guished themselves during the war.
Lieutenant Woodman left Rumelange, Luxembourg, on the 6th of July, for Paris, where he remained for about five days. The Composite Regiment encamped at the Persh- ing Stadium in the suburbs of Paris. The "Victory Parade" of the allied armies took place on the 14th, the anniversary of the destruction of the bastille. On the evening of the 15th, the entire Composite Regiment went to La Havre and boarded the battle- ship "Marie." The next morning they sailed for England; disembarked at Southampton and went immediately to London, where they were royally entertained for several days. The Victory Parade took place in London on the 19th. In the front line of the marching columns was the Composite Regi- ment, led by the Commander-in-Chief, Gen- eral John J. Pershing. The regimental colors of the different regiments of the Army of Occupation were massed together and pre- sented a brilliant spectacle. Lieutenant Woodman was in command of a company of the Composite Regiment in the parade. A few days later they all sailed for La Havre and from there went to Brest, the port of
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embarkation. On the Ist of August, Lieu- tenant Woodman sailed on the "Leviathan" for the United States. On the evening of the 6th of August, his father and mother at their home in Peabody received a telephone message from him, saying that he had landed in New York City, but would have to go to Camp Gordon, Georgia, with the regi- mental colors before returning home. Nearly two years had elapsed since his parents last heard the sound of his voice.
At headquarters, Camp Gordon, Georgia, August 16, he was granted a leave of ab- sence for fifteen days, "with authority to re- port at the expiration of leave at his own expense to the commanding officer, Camp Devens, Massachusetts, for the purpose of being discharged." He arrived home in Peabody in the afternoon of August 18th and was honorably discharged at Camp Devens on the 2d of September. On Septem- ber 8 he commenced to work for the Wona- lancet Company, importers of cotton and carders, of Nashua, New Hampshire, a cor- poration having the main office in Boston and branch offices in the large centers of the United States; also in England, China and South America. He spent the first two years in obtaining a thorough knowledge of the business-in the various departments of the mill at Nashua, and in practical experience as a salesman in different parts of New Eng- land, in the West, and in Canada. He was the New York representative of the com- pany, with headquarters at Utica, from 1921 to 1928, when he became sales man- ager, the position he now holds.
Karl Ayer Woodman and Doris Dearborn Kingsley were united in marriage, June 12, 1920, at the South Congregational Church, Peabody, Massachusetts. After the wedding ceremony, a reception was held at the home of the groom's parents, 5 King Street. Among the guests, who came from a dis-
tance to attend the wedding festivities, was Colonel Earl G. Paules, commander of the 7th Regiment, United States Engineers, of which organization Lieutenant Woodman was an officer. Mrs. Paules accompanied her husband and was an honored guest.
Doris Dearborn Kingsley, born Decem- ber 1, 1896, was the daughter of Frank Don- aldson and Georgia Brown (Dearborn) Kingsley, of Salem, Massachusetts. When she was four years old her mother died. A few years later, she went to live with her aunt, Mrs. Carrie D. Porter, in Peabody. She received her elementary education in the Peabody public schools and graduated from the high school in June, 1914, in the same class in which her husband graduated. During her senior year she was vice-presi- dent of her class. After her graduation, she was employed for several years in the office of the A. C. Lawrence Leather Company of Peabody. She also was a teacher of the piano during a portion of the time during the years preceding her marriage. The first year after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Woodman lived in Boston. In the fall of 1921, they removed to Utica, New York, where Mr. Woodman became the New York representative of the Wonalancet Company. In 1929 he was made sales manager and moved to Marblehead, Massachusetts, so that he could be near his office in Boston.
The children of Karl Ayer and Doris Dearborn (Kingsley) Woodman are : Phoebe Dearborn, born April 26, 1922, in Utica, New York; Judith Woodbury, born November 4, 1924, in Utica, New York.
ALICE LUCETTE WOODMAN.
Alice Lucette Woodman, the only daugh- ter of Willard Woodbury and Alice Leona (Paine) Woodman, was born May 25, 1898, in Gorham, Maine. She was two years old when her parents moved from Gorham to
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Peabody, Massachusetts. She attended the public schools of Peabody, graduated from the high school in June, 1917, and entered Wheaton College the following September. At the end of the first term, she transferred to the Sargent School for Physical Educa- tion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from which she graduated in June, 1921. For several seasons she was one of the in- structors on the public playgrounds of the city of Peabody and was assistant play- ground supervisor for the seasons of 1921 and 1922.
On the 30th day of December, 1922, she married in Peabody, Massachusetts, Philip Gardner Nichols, Ensign United States Navy, the son of Louis Lyman and Mary (Teague) Nichols. The following is an ex- tract from an article in the "Salem Evening News" describing the event: A brilliant naval wedding took place at the South Con- gregational Church at 8 o'clock Saturday evening, when Ensign Philip Gardner Nich- ols and Miss Alice Lucette Woodman were united in marriage before a large company of guests. The church wore its Christmas decorations and presented a most attractive appearance. The ceremony was performed with the double ring service by Rev. John Reid, the pastor of the church, the bride being given away by her father. The groom, best man, and ushers were in naval dress uniform, and were former classmates of En- sign Nichols at the Naval Academy. Fol- lowing the wedding at the church, a recep- tion was held at the home of the bride's par- ents on King Street, which was largely attended. Among those present were Cap- tain Smith of the torpedo destroyer, U. S. S. "Bruce," and Mrs. Smith. During the eve- ning the bride cut the wedding cake with her husband's sword. As the wife of a naval officer she was privileged to see much of the world, to frequently change her place of
abode, and to find new friends in widely separated parts of her own country and in foreign lands. The first ten months of her married life were spent in Newport, Rhode Island. After that she lived successively in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bel Air, Mary- land; New London, Connecticut; Vallejo, California, where her daughter, Ellen, was born, July 8, 1925; Coco Solo, Canal Zone, Panama ; Vallejo, California, a second time ; Coronado, California; Vallejo, California, for the third time; Coco Solo, Canal Zone, Panama, second time; New London, Con- necticut, for the second time, where her daughter, Ann Gardner, was born, Novem- ber 15, 1930; Manila, Philippine Islands; Baguio, "the Switzerland of the Philip- pines"; Hongkong and Shanghai, in China, a brief visit; Kobe and Yokohama, Japan, a brief visit; Honolulu, Hawaii, two years; and Newport, Rhode Island, a second time.
Philip Gardner Nichols was born, April 7, 1899, in the city of Peabody, Massachu- setts, where he received his early education. His ancestors, in the paternal line, were all residents of the county of Essex, Massachu- setts, and nearly all of them of the town of Amesbury.
Philip G. Nichols, while in attendance at Peabody High School, was president of his class. He left during his junior year to enter the Massachusetts Nautical Training School, from which he graduated in March, 1917. The following April, he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve Force as quar- termaster ; in May was assigned to the U. S. S. "Kanawha II"; sailed for France and operated in European waters through the summer of 1917. On the 10th of October, 1917, he received his appointment to the Naval Academy and sailed for America. He arrived at Annapolis, October 28, and was appointed midshipman, United States Navy, the next day. He graduated from the Naval
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Academy, June 3, 1921, and was commis- sioned ensign, United States Navy.
During the next three and a half years he served at different naval stations on the Atlantic Coast: At the Training Station, Hampton Roads, as instructor in the Enlist School for men preparing to enter the Naval Academy ; in the U. S. S. "Florida"; in the. destroyer U. S. S. "Bruce"; then at the Tor- pedo School, Newport, Rhode Island, for a year and a half.
He was commissioned lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy, June 3, 1924, on the third anniversary of his graduation from the Naval Academy. From this date, for a period of ten years, his assignments for duty have been continuously in the sub- marine service : At the Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, July, 1924, to November, 1924; duty in the U. S. S. "S-30" and in the U. S. S. "S-16" at Mare Island, California, for about a year ; engineer officer in the U. S. S. "S-46," at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, Panama, from November 24, 1925, to January, 1927.
He received his commission as lieutenant, United States Navy, June 1, 1927; was on the West Coast with the U. S. S. "S-46" until May 1, 1928, when orders came for him to report again to the Canal Zone; he was in command of the U. S. S. "O-10" at Coco Solo, Panama, and in Panama waters for a year ; then ordered to report with the "O-10" to the Submarine Base, New London, Con- necticut; served there as instructor in the Submarine School till August 1, 1931, when he received orders to join the Asiatic Fleet in the Far East. Before leaving he spent five weeks in Peabody, Massachusetts, on leave of absence; left Peabody with his family, September 12, for San Francisco; sailed September 18th from San Francisco on the S. S. "President Van Buren" for Manila, Philippine Islands. He disembarked
October 24 at Shanghai, China ; his family continued on their way to Manila; he reached Cheefoo, China, October 26, and reported to the U. S. S. "Beaver" for duty ; arrived at Manila, November 14, and was placed in command of the U. S. S. "S-32." He served at Manila as commanding officer of the "S-32" until May 2, 1932, when he received orders to sail with the "S-32" for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Upon his arrival there on May 29, he proceeded to Honolulu to meet his wife and children, who had sailed from Manila on the S. S. "President Mckinley" and reached Honolulu five days before he did. He remained at Hawaii in command of the "S-32" for two years. On June 16, 1934, he was detached from com- mand of the "S-32" and given orders to report for duty at the Torpedo Station, New- port, Rhode Island, where he is stationed at the present time.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Nichols have two children : I. Ellen Paine Nichols, born July 8, 1925, at Vallejo, California, on the same day and month as her great-grandmother, Ellen F. Paine, for whom she is named. 2. Ann Gardner Nichols, born November 15, 1930, at New London, Connecticut.
HOWARD WARE COLE- For the past twelve years Howard Ware Cole has been a practicing lawyer in the city of Boston, has won a large share of success and is well regarded in the legal profession.
Howard Ware Cole was born in Marble- head on June 27, 1898, the son of Leland and Mary (Roundy) Cole, both natives of this State. His father, who passed away in 1926, was one of the outstanding figures in the affairs of Salem during his life, having served for a time as president of the Naum- keag Trust Company, and also as a partner of the insurance firm of Smith, Leavitt and Cole, Insurance Company in Salem. The
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elder Cole was president of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, vice-president of the Young Men's Christian Association, trustee of the Salem Hospital, director of the Haw- thorne Hotel, and served for several years as a member of various banking committees in this section.
Mr. Cole, of this review, attended public schools of Salem and in 1915 entered Dart- mouth College, from which he was gradu- ated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1919. Thereupon he attended the Harvard Law School and completed his academic training in 1922. In October of that year he was admitted to the bar and went to Boston where he became associated with Hugh D. Mclellan and Bartholomew A. Brickley. At the time he arrived in this city he was a stranger but quickly made friends. He joined the law firm of McLel- lan, Carney and Brickley in 1922, and five years later became a member of the firm, which subsequently changed its title to Brickley, Sears and Cole. In a professional capacity he is a member of the Essex County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Throughout his residence here he has taken a keen interest in the social and char- itable activities of this vicinity and among the organizations he belongs to is the Uni- versity Club of Boston, and the Dartmouth Club of Boston. During his collegiate ca- reer he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and also belonged to the Dragon Senior Society, an honorary body. In 1918 he enlisted in the infantry detach- ment of the college unit and served with this body until a month after the Armistice had been signed. Mr. Cole is an enthusi- astic sportsman and enjoys yachting, cruis- ing, tennis and horseback riding.
On September 15, 1925, Mr. Cole mar- ried Doris Enslin of Beverly, Massachu- setts, and they are the parents of three chil-
dren : Rosamonde Evans, born August 15, 1926; Natalie Ware, born October I, 1927; Roger Elliott, born May 23, 1931.
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, distinguished American mining engineer and a figure of international prominence since the days of his association with Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, was born at San Francisco, Cali- fornia, March 31, 1855. He is a son of Rich- ard Pindell Hammond, an officer of the United States Army, and Sarah Elizabeth (Hays) Hammond. Mr. Hammond spent his boyhood in the San Francisco of the Gold Boom period and the Vigilantes. He was early introduced to the adventurous life he has followed most of his active years, and was only eleven when he washed his first pan of gold-bearing gravel in one of the many mining settlements of California. From that time onward his interests cen- tered in mining, and with his father's con- sent he directed his studies to prepare him for a career as a mining engineer.
After attending the preparatory depart- ment at the University of California, Mr. Hammond came East to enter Hopkins School in New Haven, from which he went on to Yale University. In 1876 he com- pleted his course in Sheffield Scientific School (Yale), from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Philoso- phy. Afterwards he went abroad to carry on a mining course at the Royal School of Mines in Freiberg, Saxony. On his return to the United States he began field work in the West to improve his grounding in metallurgy and practical mining. It was the day of stage coaches and holdups, of Wyatt Earp and the Tombstone mine, the day of rough men, some good, some bad, and he met them all. When he decided that he was competent to seek permanent pro- fessional employment, he obtained a place
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with George Hearst, his father's friend, who was building a large mining empire in the West. In 1880, because of the diversity of experience offered, he accepted a position with the United States Geological Survey as special expert in the examination of the California gold fields, and was afterwards consulting engineer to the Union Iron Works of San Francisco and to the Central and Southern Pacific railways. Meanwhile he had gone into Mexico to examine various mining properties and for a time served as manager of Minas Nuevas, in Sonoro, a posi- tion which offered almost infinite possibili- ties of adventure which were duly fulfilled for his benefit. During the following decade he was again in Mexico many times examin- ing mines, or in South America, Panama, Colombia, working down to the headwaters of the Amazon and the Orinoco, or in Guate- mala, where he was nearly shipwrecked, or in many mining centers of our own West. During this period he firmly established his reputation as a mining engineer and in 1893 agreed to go to Great Britain for a consulta- tion with Barnato Brothers and other Eng- lish financiers, who had made many offers to him of management of their rich South African properties. This decision marked the turning point in his career. Following his conferences with Barnato, Mr. Ham- mond became consulting engineer to this syndicate in South Africa at terms which he himself dictated, including a salary of $50,000 a year. When he found, however, that his recommendations were not fol- lowed, he considered that his standing as an engineer would quite possibly sustain injury with the result that he resigned within six months and was immediately summoned by telegram into the presence of Cecil Rhodes.
Rhodes was well embarked upon his plan of empire in Africa. At their meeting, Mr. Hammond was deeply impressed by the
sheer power of his mind and character and became his strong supporter through the incidents of later years. His career, Mr. Hammond has written :
Was intense and magical, so crowded with action and events that it was impossible for most of his contem- poraries to see the man with any clarity of perspec- tive . . . . Whatever his motives, whatever the complex sides of his character, the effect of his deeds has been indisputably great, as he was the greatest personality I have ever known.
In a few words it was arranged that Mr. Hammond should have charge of all the Rhodes mining interests in the Rand, with full authority, a salary of $75,000 a year and a share in profits. Under his leadership these interests grew very rapidly and by his pioneer proposal of deep-level mining in- stead of the semi-surface workings then cus- tomary, the whole course of mining history was changed. With it the fortunes of South Africa were altered and so the fortunes of England itself.
Mr. Hammond was officially consulting engineer to the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, the British South Africa Com- pany and the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company. He was one of the four leaders in the reform movement in the Transvaal against the despotic and unen- lightened leadership of Kruger, and his par- ticipation in this movement led to one of the most serious incidents in his life. After the abortive Jameson Raid, with which he was not in sympathy, Mr. Hammond was arrested, tried for insurrection and sen- tenced to death. Against the immediate protests of the world, Kruger did not dare to carry out the sentence, which was com- muted at once to life imprisonment and sub- sequently was discharged by the payment of a large fine. Mr. Hammond then went to England to seek relaxation after his trying experiences. Here he became interested in
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many mining companies and in 1900 re- turned to the United States. Since that time he has maintained his residence at Glouces- ter and Washington, but has made numer- ous excursions on business and pleasure to almost all parts of the world and has be- come associated with some of the most im- portant financial groups in the country in the purchase and promotion of valuable mining properties. His interests have also included hydro-electric development, irriga- tion projects and other enterprises of large scope which have given him, with his min- ing connections, a conspicuous position in American finance for the past thirty years.
Mr. Hammond's distinguished profes- sional career has brought him many honors. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; was president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1907-08; and has been invited to lecture before many learned societies and several universities, including Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1898; the degree of Doctor of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1907; the degree of Doctor of Laws from St. John's College in 1907 and from Yale in 1925 ; and the degree of Doctor of Engineer- ing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928. He has participated frequently in national movements and public affairs. In IgII he was appointed by President Taft, a fellow-student at Yale, as special ambassador and representative of the President to the coronation of King George V. In 1912 he was president of the Panama-Pacific Expo- sition Commission to Europe; in 1914-15 was chairman of the World Court Congress ; and in 1922 was chairman of the United States Coal Commission. He is a member
of the National Civic Federation and other civic and political bodies and is president of the National League of Republican Clubs, an office which reflects his lifelong interest in the Republican party and its fortunes. Mr. Hammond is also a member of many clubs, including the Century, University, Metropolitan, and Engineers' clubs of New York; the Chevy Chase Club, Cosmos Club, Metropolitan Club and Congressional Club, all of Washington; the University clubs of San Francisco, Denver and Salt Lake City ; the Centenarian Club of East Aurora, New York, of which he is a life member; the Carlton Club of London and others.
Mr. Hammond has written many articles for the literature of science and on the re- cent occasion of his eightieth birthday pub- lished his autobiography (two volumes, Far- rar and Rinehart, New York), in whose pages the great figures of the past half cen- tury, many of these his friends, come and go and the incidents of a life crowded with activity and adventure are set down. In a featured account of these volumes and the career which made them possible, the "Bos- ton Evening Transcript" writes :
As has been said, millions of wealth have sprung in John Hays Hammond's footsteps; history has felt his influence; in this country particularly, his efforts have been a factor in politics, and he several times was offered high place in government affairs. But at this stage of his life, as he writes it, the public sees in him the personification of an epic life, in span of years and range of activity.
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