Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — Pershing, Methodist, Born in Linn County, Missouri, a Graduate of West Point [ARTICLE]

Pershing, Methodist, Born in Linn County, Missouri, a Graduate of West Point

General Pershing belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. He was born In Linn county, Missouri, September 13, 1860, and went to West Point at twenty, from which military academy, he was graduated in 1886. In the Spanish-American w’ar he served in the volunteer army as a major. He served eight years in the Philippines, winning great fame. In 1903 he returned to the States and was serving bn the general staff in Washington in 1905 when he married Miss Frances H. Warren of Wyoming. After that Pershing spent a year or so as military attache to the American embassy in Japan and two months in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war. In 1906 he was made brigadier general. Later he returned to the Philippines as governor of the Moros, but he returned to the States again to take command of the Eighth brigade, with headquarters in San Francisco. He went to the border, where he was chosen to lead the raid to capture Villa in March, 1916. In 1915, while he was on the border Pershing’s wife and three children burned to death. He has a son left. Pershing was made a general in October, 1917, after having been sent to France as United States commander in chief. He was then a major general.