JOHN CHURCHILL WYETH I: Time Line

TIMELINE

16 Feb.1890

Birth

1900 - Age: 10

Residence

           Headquarters Division of Cuba, Cuba, Military and Naval Forces      

1910 - Age:  20

Residence

            Precinct 8, Washington, District of Columbia

1 March 1910 

Cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, New York

Took Oath of Office

Passed mental & physical exams

1911

Residence

West Point Military Academy

New York

30 April 1912

Departure: Hong Kong

Ship: Manchuria
Embarked in Yokohama

21 May 1912

Arrived: Honolulu, Hawaii

Ship: Manchuria

Final Destination: St. Joseph, Missouri

30 June 1913
Lieutenant

8th in rank

10 June 1914

Granted leave of absence for 3 months

12 June  1914

Graduated from Military Academy at West Point

atio

13 June 1914

 Promoted in the Army to Additional Second Lieut., 5th Field Artillery

24 August 1914 - Age: 24

Sailed on the S.S. Ancon from Cristobal, Panama

31 August 1914

Arrived at the Port of New York on the S.S. Ancon

Residence listed on Ship's Manifest 

1823 19th Street N.W., 

Washington, D.C. 

14 Sept.1914

Served At Fort Snelling Minn with 5th Field Artillery

27 Oct 1914

Left from Fort Snelling, Minn

30 October 1914

Stationed at Fort Sill Oklahoma 

27 June 1916

Left Fort Sill, Oklahoma

1 July 1916

First Lieut 5th Field Artillery

                      Stationed at Fort Ringgold, Brownsville and McAllen Texas

11 Aug 1916
At Fort Leavenworth

5 Feb 1917
Engagement announcement in Washington Times Newspaper

16 February 1917

Married Francis Huster

Manhattan, New York

1 March 1917 

Transferred to 9th Field Artillery

 26 March 1917

              detached at intervals as instructor for National Guard organizations

on way to Hawaii 

13 April 1917 

 joined 9th Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks Hawaii 

15 May 1917

Captain 9th Field Artillery 

22 Dec 1917

 Left Hawaii

3 Jan. 1918 

 Fort Sill Oklahoma with regiment at School of Fire Jan 3 to July 3 1918

3 July 1918

Left for Camp Taylor in Kentucky

July 1918

Camp Tavlor in  Kentucky,  Instructor at Field Artillery Central Officers Training School

31 October 1918

Daughter Leslie Wardwell Wyeth  born in Kentucky

15 Feb  1919 

Secretary Field Artillery Basic School

19 May 1919

Left Field Artillery Basic School

1 June 1919

en route to France

12 June 1919

Army Center of Artillery Studies in Treves Germany

10 July 1919

en route to US 

15 July 1919

Camp Taylor Ky at Field Artillery Basic School

29 July 1919  
(not sure of date)

left Camp Taylor  

1 Aug 1919 (not sure of date)

 at US Military Academy, Instructor in Department of Mathematics 

19 Aug 1919 (not sure of date)

Left U.S.Military Academy

20 Aug  1919

Instructor in Department of Mathematics
U.S. Military Academy

28 Aug. 1919

 Returned to Grade of Captain  

1920
Residence
Highland, Orange, New York

10 Feb 1921
Graduate Student in Astronomy
In Greek Society "Sigma XI"

1923

Received his Masters Degree
University of Chicago
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Thesis on "Ballistic Wind Effects"

13 August 1923

Son John Churchill Wyeth II born in Chicago, Illinois

14 May 1924
Father Marlborough Churchill Wyeth dies

1927

General Staff Corps Eligible List; Advance Course, Field Artillery School

1928

Associate Professor of Military Science & Tactics

Command & General Staff School

1929
University of Missouri
In charge of Polo team
U.S.A. Artillery Officer

1930
Residence
Columbia, Boone, Missouri
ROTC Unit Instructor
Scabbard & Blade National Honor Fraternity makes him a honorary member

1931 - 1932

Attending the University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri

1935
Philippines Island

1939
Assigned to Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Utah
ROTC Commandant & Professor in the Military Science & Tactics Dept.

1940
Residence
1321 Souh 15th East
Salt Lake City, Utah

12 October 1940
Mother Lucia Ora Horton died

November 1943
Chief of Staff at Fort McCain

1943-1945
Served in World War I

26 Oct. 1950

Death

Santa Barbara,California