Exhibition of war portraits : signing of the Peace treaty, 1919, and portraits of distinguished leaders of America and of the allied nations painted by eminent American artists for presentation to the National portrait gallery . les, Admiral WILLIAM SNOWDEN SIMS, Com-mander of the American Naval operations in Europeanwaters iqij-iqiS. Born at Fort Hope, Canada, 1858. Appointedfrom Pennsylvania to United States Naval Academyand graduated 1880. Promoted through the variousgrades to rank of Commodore, iqoj; Vice Admiral,IQ17. Served at North Atlantic Station, 1880;Nautical School Saratoga, i
Exhibition of war portraits : signing of the Peace treaty, 1919, and portraits of distinguished leaders of America and of the allied nations painted by eminent American artists for presentation to the National portrait gallery . les, Admiral WILLIAM SNOWDEN SIMS, Com-mander of the American Naval operations in Europeanwaters iqij-iqiS. Born at Fort Hope, Canada, 1858. Appointedfrom Pennsylvania to United States Naval Academyand graduated 1880. Promoted through the variousgrades to rank of Commodore, iqoj; Vice Admiral,IQ17. Served at North Atlantic Station, 1880;Nautical School Saratoga, i88q-i8Q3; Philadel-phia, Pacific Station, 1893-1896; Naval attacheAmerican Embassies at Paris and St. Petersburg,i8g7-iQoo; China Station iqoo-iqoi; Bureau ofNavigation, Navy Department, as Inspector ofTarget Practice, iqoi-iqoq; additional duty as navalaide to the President, iqo7-iqoq; commandingMinnesota, iqoq-iqii; Naval War College, New-port, R. I., iqi i-iqi 3; commanding American Na\aloperations in European waters, April 28, 1017, untilend of war. Grand Cross Order of St. Michael andSt. George by King George of England, iqi8; GrandOfficer Legion of Honor (French) iqiq; , Yale,Harvard, Tufts, and Juniata, HERBERT HOOVER By EJmiind C. Tarbell, HERBERT CLARK HOOVER, United StatesFood Administrator iqij-iqiq; chairman of the Su-preme Economic Council, Paris, iqiq. Born at West Branch, Iowa, 1874. (inmining engineering), Leland Stanford Jr. University,i8q5. Assistant Arkansas Geological Survey, i8q3;United States Geological Survey, Sierra Nevadamountains, i8q5; manager of various mines in Cali-fornia and Australia; chief engineer Chinese ImperialBureau of Mines, i8qq, doing extensive explorationin interior of China; took part in defense of Tiensinduring Boxer disturbances, iqoo; consulting miningengineer and director of mines, with ofiices at SanFrancisco, New York and London, American Relief Committee, London,iqi4-i5; Commission for Re
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