John Luke Tiernon Brigadier General, United States Army |
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Luke Tiernon of Indiana
Appointed from Missouri, Second Lieutenant, 3rd Artillery, 19 February 1862 First Lieutenant, 20 January 1864 Captain, 2 July 1877 Major, 1st Artillery, 1 September 1896 Lieuetnant Colonel, 5th Artillery, 15 July 1900 Artillery Corps, 2 February 1901 Colonel, 22 August 1901 BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN LUKE TIERNON BUFFALO, New York, March 30, 1910 - Brigadier
General John Luke Tiernon, U.S.A., retired, died here tonight. General
Tiernon was a native of Indiana, and was at one time a Speker of the House
of Representatives of Dakota. He entered the Army as a Second Lieutenant
of the Third Artillery of Missouri in 1862, retiring as a Brigadier General
after forty years' of continuous serice. He was in command of the
light artillery in the Philippines in 1899-1900, and was the organizer
and Chief of the Native Police Force in Manila.
TIERNON, HARRIET V W/O JOHN L
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