Harry Newton Cootes Colonel, United States Army |
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Newton Cootes of Virginia
Appointed from Virginia, Private, Sereant, and First Serveant, Company L, 4th U. S. Volunteer Infantry, 7 June to 3 October 1898 Honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, 8 June 1899 First Lieutenant, 35th Volunteer Infantry, 5 July 1899 Captain, 21 February 1900 Honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, 2 May 1901 First Lieutenant, 12th U. S. Cavalry, 2 February 1901 Commanding officer of Fort Myer, Virginia, 1930-33. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mary Elizabeth Dickson Cootes Belin, born Episcopalian on May 9, 1912, in Norfolk, died at her home in Georgetown from complications due to Parkinson's disease. She was the daughter of Colonel Harry Newton Cootes, U.S. Cavalry, Commandant of Fort Myer 1930-1933, from Staunton, Virginia, and Mary Louisa Cooke from Norfolk, Virginia. Educated in Vienna where her father was military
attache after World War I, she graduated from Smith College (cum laude)
after also studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Mrs. Belin spoke several
languages fluently and worked as a translator.
A native of Staunton, Virginia, Colonel Cootes was educated at Staunton Military Academy and the Virginia Military Institute. He enlisted as a private in the Spanish-American War and soon was advanced to Second Lieutenant. He rose through successive ranks until 1918 when he was made a Colonel. 1903-05 - 2nd Tour, Philippines
His military assignments included that of attaché to the Czechoslovak Legation in Prague and the United States Embassy in Vienna. Austria awarded him the Great Silver Cross and Czechoslovakia awarded him that nation's Military Cross in 1928. REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS, 3rd Army Cavalry Regiment - Harry Newton Cootes 25th Colonel 1930-1933 Other assignments held by Colonel Cootes were as aide to Secretary of War J. M. Dickinson in 1910-11, aide to Major General Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff 1916-17 and aide to W. G. Forbes, Governor General of the Philippines, 1909-10. Service medals which he held included the Spanish-American
War, Cuban Occupation, Philippine campaign, Mexican border campaign and
the World War.
Also: Wife: Mary Louisa Cooke Cootes, born November 13, 1882, Norfolk, Virginia, died March 29, 1966. Son - Merritt Cootes, born March 11, 1909,
died November 26, 1998, Princeton, New Jersey. He prepared at College
Ile de France and Woodberry Forest. Princeton, class of 1931. Following
graduation, he fulfilled his ambitions and entered the diplomatic service.
He was a Foreign Service officer for a number of years and was stationed
in, among other places, Hong Kong, Saigon, Lisbon, Rome, Moscow, Portau-Prince,
and Lahore. He was in Florence when he retired, and in 1987 he returned
to Princeton.
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DATE OF DEATH: 10/28/1938 BURIED AT: SECTION 3 SITE 3911 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Posted: 16 May 2005 Updated: 17 July 2005 |
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