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[1900 census] McAninch, Daniel A. / Rhoda / Maud 16 / William 14 / Fred 12 / Vern 9; |
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Indiana, Hendricks County, Clay Twp.; 25 June 1900, NARA T623 Roll 377 p.156 ED 29 |
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[1910 census] McAninch, Daniel A. / Rhoda / Maud 24 / William 22 / Vern 19; |
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Indiana, Hendricks County, Clay Twp.; 15 Apr. 1910; NARA T624 Roll 354 pg.57’A’ |
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[15] |
Military Service Record, Vern McAninch (1909-1912) |
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NARA File: McAninch, Vern / Vol. 130 Roll 67 year 1909 page 116 Index 01971 |
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b. |
Register of Enlistments, U. S. Army (41 records on this sheet, Vern is the 3rd line) |
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c. |
Enlistment papers (Declaration, Consent, and Descriptive and Assignment Card) |
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Signal Corps Card (Date of Muster Roll, Companies ‘H’, ‘K’ [Alaska], and ‘M’) |
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e. |
Certificate of Disability for Discharge (July 9, 1912 / Sept. 13, 1912 / Oct. 5, 1912) |
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f. |
[Analysis] Vern's Army records from NARA have copies of his enlistment papers, |
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with original signatures of both Vern and his father (Daniel A. McAninch), |
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some information about his training at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, and some records |
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about his later illness and discharge at Letterman General Hospital, The Presidio, |
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San Francisco, California. Unfortunately, it appears to be just a typical 'CONUS' |
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[Continental U.S.] service file, with no records of his time in Alaska. |
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U.S. Army Signal Corps history and records |
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Getting The Message Through: A Branch History of the United States Army |
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Signal Corps, by Raines, Rebecca Robbins, pub. 1996 by Defense Dept., Army, |
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Center of Military History, 484 pgs., ISBN 0-16-045351-8 (out of print, GPO); |
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complete book now online http://www.history.army.mil/books/30-17/Front.htm |
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the two pictures on pg.109, "Telegraph Repair Wor[k] at Fort Gibbon, Alaska" |
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and "Interior of Fort Gibbon Telegraph Office" are both available online at |
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http://www.history.army.mil/books/30-17/S_3.htm#p109a |
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c. |
The Signal Corps Museum, at Fort Gordon, Georgia, has no personnel records, |
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and there are no exhibits for WAMCATS nor Signal Corps Co. ‘K’ in Alaska |
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http://www.signal.army.mil/ocos/museum/ |
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Vancouver Barracks, Fort Vancouver, Vancouver, Washington state |
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (NPS) - http://www.nps.gov/fova/index.htm |
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b. |
Fort Vancouver, Columbia River, - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Vancouver |
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c. |
Vancouver Barracks (1849-1947) - http://fortwiki.com/Vancouver_Barracks |
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[18] |
Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) |
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U.S. Army 59th Signal Battalion [“Voice of the Arctic”] |
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b. |
http://www.usarak.army.mil/59thsignal/History.asp |
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c. |
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/59sig.htm |
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d. |
side note re ‘lower 48’ [sic]: There were only 45 states when WAMCATS started |
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in 1900; Oklahoma became a state in 1907, and there were 46 states when Vern |
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went to Alaska in 1910 (Arizona and New Mexico both admitted later, in 1912). |
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[19] |
‘Radio Apparatus in Use in the Signal Corps’ |
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Radiotelegraphy (U.S. Signal Corps publication), October, 1916, pages 85-86 |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.3 / July 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-28 |