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b. 2 JAN 1818 Chicopee Falls, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, d. 1864 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin.
m. 1844 Chicopee Falls, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, Arthur Mac Arthur, b. 26 JAN 1815 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, d. 24 AUG 1896 Atlantic City, Atlantic Co., New Jersey. Spouse Notes
Arthur MacArthur, Sr. (January 26, 1815 - August 26, 1896) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the acting governor of Wisconsin for four brief days in 1856, in the midst of an election scandal.
MacArthur was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the descendant of Highlander nobility through his father, who had died just seven days before his birth in 1815. His mother remarried and moved the family to Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1828. MacArthur attended school briefly at Wesleyan College in Connecticut, but dropped out to help his family through a severe economic depression in 1837.
He worked as a law clerk in Boston and then New York, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1841. Around 1844, he married Aurelia Belcher (1819 - 1864), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. With the help of his father-in-law, MacArthur established a very successful legal practice in Springfield.
Differences in politics between the immigrant Democrat MacArthur and his conservative Whig in-laws soon led him to move his family from their influence. He set up a law office in New York City in 1845, and finally settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849. MacArthur quickly befriended the powerful in his new home state, and was elected as the city attorney of Milwaukee in 1851. In 1855, he was offered the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, as running mate to the incumbent, William A. Barstow.
The election ended in scandal. Though Barstow was initially declared winner by a mere 157 votes, the result was challenged as a fraud by Barstow's opponent, the Republican Coles Bashford, and it was substantiated that election returns had been forged from non-existent precincts. Barstow kept hold of the office anyway, and as the rivals' militia forces converged on the state capital of Madison threatening to start a civil war, Barstow and MacArthur were inaugurated publicly on January 7, 1856. Despite his promises to hold onto the office at all costs, Barstow eventually realized that he was fighting a losing battle both legally and in public opinion, and resigned on March 21, 1856, four days before the Wisconsin Supreme Court resolved the controversy in favor of Bashford.
MacArthur became acting governor upon Barstow's resignation and initially repeated his predecessor's resolve to remain in office. On March 25, however, when confronted face to face with a threat to use force from Bashford, a county sheriff, and a throng of Bashford's followers, MacArthur and his supporters vacated the Capitol. MacArthur finished his term as lieutenant governor, leaving office in 1857.
The election scandal somehow left MacArthur's reputation relatively unscathed, and he won election for two terms as a judge on the Wisconsin Second Judicial Circuit, from 1857 until 1869. In 1870, President Grant appointed MacArthur as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia,a position that he held until his retirement in 1887.
MacArthur spent his remaining years in Washington moving in high society, accepting speaking engagements, and writing books. He died in Atlantic City, New Jersey and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington.
MacArthur had two sons, Frank, and famed General Arthur MacArthur, Jr., for whom he had first secured an appointment to West Point Military Academy and then as a first lieutenant in the 24th regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Arthur Jr. was himself the father of a general of even greater fame, the World War II commander, Douglas MacArthur.
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(8) Arthur Mac Arthur8 (Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 2 JUN 1845 Chicopee Falls, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, d. 5 SEP 1912 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin. Notes
ARTHUR enlisted for the Civil War at age 17 with the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers. He was a Colonel of the regiment at age 20 and was know as the "Boy Colonel of the West". He received the Medal of Honor for "gallant and meritorious service" in the battle of Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga, Tennessee on 25 November 1863. He was a Lieutenant with the 24th Wisconsin at the time. At the end of the Civil War he entered the regular army, was appointed Brigadier General and assigned to the Philippine command. He is station there when the 1900 federal census was taken, with the rank of Maj. Gen. He was the senior ranking officer of the US Army in 1909 and retired with the rank of Lt. General.m. 19 MAY 1875 Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Virginia, Mary Pickney "Pinky" Hardy, b. 22 MAY 1852 Berkley, Norfolk Co., Virginia, d. 3 DEC 1935 Manila,, Philippine Islands.
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(9) Arthur Mac Arthur9 (Arthur Mac Arthur8, Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 1 AUG 1876 Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Virginia, d. 2 DEC 1923 Washington, District of Columbia. Notes
ARTHUR was a Navy Commander aboard the USS Louisiana when the federal 1910 census was taken.
Arthur MacArthur III, Captain, United States Navy.
Born on June 1, 1876, he was the older brother of Douglas MacArthur and the son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr., he entered the United States Naval Academy at the age of 16 as one of the youngest Midshipmen in history. He graduated with high-honors in 1896 and was commissioned an Ensign.
He was soon serving the first of many tours of sea duty. He was aboard the
Gunboat USS Vixen in the Battle of Santiago, off Cuba during the Spanish-American War in July 1898. He later participated in naval operations during the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. His career was certainly not handicapped at all by his marriage to the daughter of Rear Admiral Bowman McCalla in 1901.
In 1902, he took command of the USS Grampus, a newly commissioned submarine and the first to be built on the Pacific Coast. He was soon given command of a division of submarines and according to his brother, "was one of the original developers of underwater tactics and strategy."
In 1906, as a Lieutenant, he returned to the Naval Academy as an aide to the Superintendent.
In 1909, when his father retired from the Army, he was a Lieutenant Commander, serving aboard the battleship USS Louisiana. Two years later, he was given command of the USS McCall, a new destroyer. In 1912, he was transferred to the General Board of the Navy in Washington, the equivalent to the Army General Staff. He was Superintendent of the State, War and Navy Building, where his office was located next to the White House.
Promoted to Commander in 1915, well ahead of his classmates, he returned to sea as Captain of the USS San Francisco, a mine sweeper. When World War I came in 1917, he was commanding the armored cruiser USS South Dakota in the Pacific Fleet. He was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet and given command of the light cruiser USS Chattanooga, which was on convoy duty.
For distinguished work in protecting the troop transports from German U-Boats in 1918, he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal and was promoted to Captain.
After the war, he commanded the San Diego Naval Training Center for two years and then headed back to sea on the USS Henderson, which was on duty with the Navy Transportation Service. In the spring of 1923, he returned to Washington, D.C. to serve on the Boards of Examination for Promotion and Retirement of Naval Officers.
He was working in the Navy Department when he was suddenly stricken with an attack of appendicitis and died on December 2, 1923. During his 31 years of naval service, 19 spent at sea, he won wide recognition, according to a contemporary, as an able, energetic and popular officer. To the MacArthurs, his career was convincing proof once again that a MacArthur possessed superior intellectual and leadership qualities and could master any field of his choosing. In his memoirs, Douglas MacArthur, wrote, "I loved my brother dearly and his premature death left a gap in my life which has yet to be filled."
He is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery, near his father and other family members, under a stone which reads:
"Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not here, but is risen."m. 21 AUG 1901 Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island, Mary Hendry McCulla, b. , d. .
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(9) Arthur Mac Arthur9 (Arthur Mac Arthur8, Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 1 AUG 1876 Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Virginia, d. 2 DEC 1923 Washington, District of Columbia. Notes
ARTHUR was a Navy Commander aboard the USS Louisiana when the federal 1910 census was taken.
Arthur MacArthur III, Captain, United States Navy.
Born on June 1, 1876, he was the older brother of Douglas MacArthur and the son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr., he entered the United States Naval Academy at the age of 16 as one of the youngest Midshipmen in history. He graduated with high-honors in 1896 and was commissioned an Ensign.
He was soon serving the first of many tours of sea duty. He was aboard the
Gunboat USS Vixen in the Battle of Santiago, off Cuba during the Spanish-American War in July 1898. He later participated in naval operations during the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. His career was certainly not handicapped at all by his marriage to the daughter of Rear Admiral Bowman McCalla in 1901.
In 1902, he took command of the USS Grampus, a newly commissioned submarine and the first to be built on the Pacific Coast. He was soon given command of a division of submarines and according to his brother, "was one of the original developers of underwater tactics and strategy."
In 1906, as a Lieutenant, he returned to the Naval Academy as an aide to the Superintendent.
In 1909, when his father retired from the Army, he was a Lieutenant Commander, serving aboard the battleship USS Louisiana. Two years later, he was given command of the USS McCall, a new destroyer. In 1912, he was transferred to the General Board of the Navy in Washington, the equivalent to the Army General Staff. He was Superintendent of the State, War and Navy Building, where his office was located next to the White House.
Promoted to Commander in 1915, well ahead of his classmates, he returned to sea as Captain of the USS San Francisco, a mine sweeper. When World War I came in 1917, he was commanding the armored cruiser USS South Dakota in the Pacific Fleet. He was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet and given command of the light cruiser USS Chattanooga, which was on convoy duty.
For distinguished work in protecting the troop transports from German U-Boats in 1918, he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal and was promoted to Captain.
After the war, he commanded the San Diego Naval Training Center for two years and then headed back to sea on the USS Henderson, which was on duty with the Navy Transportation Service. In the spring of 1923, he returned to Washington, D.C. to serve on the Boards of Examination for Promotion and Retirement of Naval Officers.
He was working in the Navy Department when he was suddenly stricken with an attack of appendicitis and died on December 2, 1923. During his 31 years of naval service, 19 spent at sea, he won wide recognition, according to a contemporary, as an able, energetic and popular officer. To the MacArthurs, his career was convincing proof once again that a MacArthur possessed superior intellectual and leadership qualities and could master any field of his choosing. In his memoirs, Douglas MacArthur, wrote, "I loved my brother dearly and his premature death left a gap in my life which has yet to be filled."
He is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery, near his father and other family members, under a stone which reads:
"Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not here, but is risen."m. Mary Handry McCalla, b. 1 MAR 1877 Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island, d. 28 OCT 1959 .
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(9) Douglas Mac Arthur9 (Arthur Mac Arthur8, Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 26 JAN 1880 Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, d. 5 APR 1964 Washington, District of Columbia. Notes
DOUGLAS graduated from West Point in 1903 with the highest honors in his class. A series of engineering assignments, including service in the Philippines and an assignment as aide to President Theodore Roosevelt culminated in 1914 with his participation in the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico.
During World War I he was chief of staff, brigade leader, and then commander of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division of the Allied Expeditionary Force in France, where he distinguished himself and was wounded. After serving with the occupation army at Koblenz, Germany, he was superintendent, 1919-1922, at West Point, where he updated and broadened the curriculum, raised academic standards, and reorganized the athletic program. He subsequently held two Philippine commands and two Corps area commands and in 1928 headed the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Douglas was advanced to full general upon becoming the Army Chief of Staff in 1930. Although criticized for harshly carrying out Presidents Hoover's orders to expel the "Bonus Army" from Washington, DC in 1932, he managed to operate the army during the Depression years as efficiently as the small appropriations from Congress would allow. He was appointed in 1935, military advisor to the Philippines, and a year later Philippine President Manuel Quezon named him Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. Douglas retired from the U.S. Army in 1937, and until 1941 he struggled to build up Philippine Army strength despite a paucity of funds.
With World War II threatening, Douglas was recalled to active duty in 1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December 1941, the General conducted a skillful and valiant defense on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island until he was ordered, March 1942, to Australia to become Supreme Allied Commander in the Southwest Pacific theater. For his actions in the Philippines, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. In August 1942 he launched a daring major counteroffensive against the enemy in Papus, New Guinea, in a campaign that demonstrated his sagacious use of combined land, sea and air forces to outguess and outfight the enemy. Operations along the northeast coast of the huge island culminated triumphantly in 1944. Other Japanese forces and bases, such as Rabaul, were bypassed in a simultaneous campaign through the Solomon, Bismarck and Admiralty Islands.
At a significant meeting in Pearl Harbor with President Roosevelt, MacArthur questioned his superior's strategy of emphasizing the war in Europe so heavily, won approval to re conquer the Philippines instead of continuing to Formosa. His troops invaded, October 1944, Leyte and then other islands of the Archipelago, decisively defeating the Japanese forces on Luzon in August 1945.
Douglas was appointed to five-star general in December 1944 and in April 1945 was made Commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific. He accepted the surrender of Japan aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945 and thereby ended World War II.
As director of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas governed, 1945-1951, autocratically but progressively. He introduced such far-reaching reforms as land redistribution, disarmament, and inauguration of a liberal constitution.
When North Korean troops invaded South Korea in June 1950, Gen. MacArther was named Supreme United Nations Commander. Although his troops were few in number and poorly trained, they checked the enemy advance near Pusan. In September he conducted a masterful amphibious landing at Inchon and rolled the shattered foe back toward the Manchurian border. The massive Chinese Army invaded South Korea in November and MacArthur managed to halt it by the spring of 1951. Disagreeing with his superiors, he called for aggressive action, including bombardment of Chinese bases in Manchuria and a Formosan invasion of mainland China, to eliminate Communism from the Far East. When he communicated his sentiments to public officials in the United States, President Harry S. Truman charged Gen. MacArthur with insubordination and on 11 April 1951, relieved him of his command.. Upon returning to the United States, he resolutely defended his actions and views in a dramatic speech to the Congress, 19 April 1951, and in hearings that followed.
Although aloof, egotistical, and imperious, Douglas could also be warmhearted, human, and witty. Most people agreed that he was courageous, highly intelligent, strongly dedicated to duty and country, and gifted with great command ability.
He died in Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington, D.C.m. 1922 West Point, Orange Co., New York, Henrietta Louise Brooks, b. , d. .
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(9) Douglas Mac Arthur9 (Arthur Mac Arthur8, Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 26 JAN 1880 Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, d. 5 APR 1964 Washington, District of Columbia. Notes
DOUGLAS graduated from West Point in 1903 with the highest honors in his class. A series of engineering assignments, including service in the Philippines and an assignment as aide to President Theodore Roosevelt culminated in 1914 with his participation in the occupation of Veracruz, Mexico.
During World War I he was chief of staff, brigade leader, and then commander of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division of the Allied Expeditionary Force in France, where he distinguished himself and was wounded. After serving with the occupation army at Koblenz, Germany, he was superintendent, 1919-1922, at West Point, where he updated and broadened the curriculum, raised academic standards, and reorganized the athletic program. He subsequently held two Philippine commands and two Corps area commands and in 1928 headed the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Douglas was advanced to full general upon becoming the Army Chief of Staff in 1930. Although criticized for harshly carrying out Presidents Hoover's orders to expel the "Bonus Army" from Washington, DC in 1932, he managed to operate the army during the Depression years as efficiently as the small appropriations from Congress would allow. He was appointed in 1935, military advisor to the Philippines, and a year later Philippine President Manuel Quezon named him Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. Douglas retired from the U.S. Army in 1937, and until 1941 he struggled to build up Philippine Army strength despite a paucity of funds.
With World War II threatening, Douglas was recalled to active duty in 1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December 1941, the General conducted a skillful and valiant defense on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island until he was ordered, March 1942, to Australia to become Supreme Allied Commander in the Southwest Pacific theater. For his actions in the Philippines, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. In August 1942 he launched a daring major counteroffensive against the enemy in Papus, New Guinea, in a campaign that demonstrated his sagacious use of combined land, sea and air forces to outguess and outfight the enemy. Operations along the northeast coast of the huge island culminated triumphantly in 1944. Other Japanese forces and bases, such as Rabaul, were bypassed in a simultaneous campaign through the Solomon, Bismarck and Admiralty Islands.
At a significant meeting in Pearl Harbor with President Roosevelt, MacArthur questioned his superior's strategy of emphasizing the war in Europe so heavily, won approval to re conquer the Philippines instead of continuing to Formosa. His troops invaded, October 1944, Leyte and then other islands of the Archipelago, decisively defeating the Japanese forces on Luzon in August 1945.
Douglas was appointed to five-star general in December 1944 and in April 1945 was made Commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific. He accepted the surrender of Japan aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945 and thereby ended World War II.
As director of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas governed, 1945-1951, autocratically but progressively. He introduced such far-reaching reforms as land redistribution, disarmament, and inauguration of a liberal constitution.
When North Korean troops invaded South Korea in June 1950, Gen. MacArther was named Supreme United Nations Commander. Although his troops were few in number and poorly trained, they checked the enemy advance near Pusan. In September he conducted a masterful amphibious landing at Inchon and rolled the shattered foe back toward the Manchurian border. The massive Chinese Army invaded South Korea in November and MacArthur managed to halt it by the spring of 1951. Disagreeing with his superiors, he called for aggressive action, including bombardment of Chinese bases in Manchuria and a Formosan invasion of mainland China, to eliminate Communism from the Far East. When he communicated his sentiments to public officials in the United States, President Harry S. Truman charged Gen. MacArthur with insubordination and on 11 April 1951, relieved him of his command.. Upon returning to the United States, he resolutely defended his actions and views in a dramatic speech to the Congress, 19 April 1951, and in hearings that followed.
Although aloof, egotistical, and imperious, Douglas could also be warmhearted, human, and witty. Most people agreed that he was courageous, highly intelligent, strongly dedicated to duty and country, and gifted with great command ability.
He died in Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington, D.C.m. 30 APR 1937 New York City, New York, Jean Marie Faircloth, b. 28 DEC 1898 Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee, d. 29 JAN 2000 New York City, New York.
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(9) Malcom Mac Arthur9 (Arthur Mac Arthur8, Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 17 OCT 1878 New Britain, Hartford Co., Connecticut, d. 1883 .
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(8) Francis "Frank" Mac Arthur8 (Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 20 SEP 1853 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin, d. 1 DEC 1889 New York City, New York.
m. 18 MAY 1886 New York City, New York, Rose Mann "Sallie" Winston, b. MAY 1865 Tuscumbia, Colbert Co., Alabama, d. AFT 1930 New York City, New York.
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(9) Malcolm Mac Arthur9 (Francis "Frank" Mac Arthur8, Aurelia P. Belcher7, Olive Keep6, John Keep5, Jabez Keep4, Sarah Colton3, Sarah Griswold2, Anna Wolcott1)
b. 22 MAR 1888 New York City, New York, d. DEC 1980 New York City, New York. Notes
MALCOLM is found in the 1920 and 1930 Manhatten, New York City, New York census: MacArthur, Malcolm, ages 32 and 42, security broker born in NY. Living with him is his mother Rose, 58 and 68.
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