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tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=E016 from the link Sarah Barnwell Elliott, novelist, short story writer, and advocate of women's rights, was born in Savannah, Georgia, the daughter of Stephen Elliott, a bishop of the Episcopal Church who was a leader in the founding of the University of the South at Sewanee. Her education consisted of private tutoring and some study at Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Though she lived for a time in New York (1895-1902), Elliott's principal home was Sewanee, where she died and was buried. She never married. My guess it was an honorary degree.

"The responsibility of raising her nephews drew Elliott back to Sewanee in 1904, where she continued her energetic support for women's rights as a lecturer essayist, and suffrage leader. These efforts served as the catalyst for Tennessee's becoming the critical thirty-sixth state and the only southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment (1921), which guaranteed women the vote. In 1913 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by the University of the South." -----Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender (2002), p. 232.

I started a Wikipedia entry for her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Barnwell_Elliott

The roundy yoke is a bit of cavalry armour (or derived from it, anyway - it's a gorget), and the horn suggests scouts, huntsmen or the postal service.

I believe This belt plate and gorget are still in the National Museum, rare pieces indeed I would say.

This is a nice piece on the Legion Irlandaise, militaryheritage.com/irish.htm

The story goes that the King of France found the Irish brigade very unruly with their drinking and fighting. He complained to their commanding office by saying " the Irish troops are more troublesome than the rest of the French army"

The reply from the commanding office was " yes your majesty, the enemy say the same"

Aristides Agramonte (1868-1931), Cuban-born American bacteriologist who served on the Yellow Fever Commission of the US Army.

June 3, 1914: Commencement ceremonies at Columbia University, New York City. Other Bain/LOC photos from the 1914 Columbia commencement:

NYT of June 4, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0614F63C5E13738... indicates that received an honorary degree from Columbia the day before.