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Chandler Hale was an Assistant Secretary of State. "Virbeck" should have correct spelling "Verbeck" query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E0DEFDF123AE6...

August 4, 1911 per NY Times "Last night he wore a light gray overcoat, a black suit, black derby and patent leather shoe" -Togo "Those in the party that went on board the Lusitania to welcome Admiral Togo were Third Assistant Secretary of State Chandler Hale and Capt. Templin M. Potts, U.S.N, representing the United States Government; Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, commanding the Easter Division of the Army on Governors Island; Commander Hiraga, the Japanese Naval Attache in Washington; Mr. Hanihara, the First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy; Adjutant Gen. William Verbeck of the New York National Guard, who represented the State of New York, and Gen. Nelson H. Henry, the Surveyor of the Port." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EEDE1531E2...

Ck tags for other photos from Togo's visit to the U.S.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the after-dark reception of Admiral Togo in New York. (Togo actually disembarked in New York after midnight, on the morning of August 4, 1911; the photographer may have been dozing -- his camera suffered a jolt during the exposure:

LOC -- your misspelling of Verbeck in the title has not been emended. The error appears to have originated with Bain.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1910s Fashion, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Posing on the occasion of the annual lawn party of the Army Relief Society, on Governors Island in New York harbor, May 25, 1911. Frederick Dent Grant was commanding general at the Army base on Governors Island, where he lived with his family until his death, from cancer, in April, l9l2.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant_III en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Dent_Grant www.arlingtoncemetery.net/francism.htm

Let's give the ladies some names: Mrs. F. D. Grant, Ida Marie Honore, is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Marie_Honor%C3%A9 Mrs. Francis Gibson was named Kate. Can't find anything about her. Mrs. U. S. Grant III was named Edith Root. Edith Root was born circa 1879. She was the daughter of Elihu Root, US Sec of State under T. Roosevelt. Edith Root married Maj. Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant, son of General Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Marie Honore, on 27 November 1907. Edith Root died on 23 May 1962. She's buried in Hamilton College Cemetery.

Shadrach Chistopoulos: Great idea to find the names of the women in this image. Thank you! We will add the fuller names to the description when we update.

This is not the funeral for Ulysses S. Grant (who died 14 years earlier), but one of his descendants, General Frederick Dent Grant.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!