Alvin Barton Barber Colonel, United States Army |
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Prior to the war, he had assisted in the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and had participated in the mapping of the Philippines. Initially he went to France with the Railway Commission but he soon joined the General Staff at General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) until his assignment as G-1 of the Services of Supply in February 1918. In June he was made G-3 of I Corps and in August G-1 of the First Army. In January 1919 he joined Herbert Hoover’s
American Relief Administration and was sent in August to Warsaw as Adviser
to the Polish Minister of Railways. He resigned from the Army in
1920 but remained a Technical Adviser in Poland until 1922. In 1923 he
was selected as manager of the Transportation and Communications Department
of the United States Department of Commerce, a position he held for 25
years. He subsequently was a staff director on the National Resources Board
and a consultant to the Office of Defense Mobolization. He retired in 1957
and died in 1961.
BARBER, ALVIN BARTON Colonel United States Army DATE OF BIRTH: 05/19/1883 DATE OF DEATH: 09/16/1961 BURIED AT: SECTION 6 SITE 9174-2-R ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Webmaster: Michael
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Posted: 17 April 2005 Updated: 19 November 2005 |
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