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Consuls, Paymasters, Surgeons and Other Appointees
A routine listing of federal appointments made by the president, including consuls, army officers, and surgeons, as the machinery of imperial administration expanded following the war with Spain.
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Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Page 1
1 min readWashington, April 11.
The president to-day made the following appointments:
State—Robert P. Skinner of Ohio, to be consul general of the United States at Marseilles, France; Oliver D. J. Hughes of Connecticut to be consul general of the United States at Coburg, Germany, and Francis B. Gessner of Ohio to be consul of the United States at Zittau, Germany.
Treasury—Isaac R. Mills to be collector of internal revenue for the Eighth district of Illinois.
War—United States army, to be captains of infantry: Albert S. Brookes, Thomas F. Dwyer, Fine W. Smith.
To be paymasters with rank of captain—Herbert M. Lord.
To be quartermasters with rank of captain—Robert L. Brown, Frederick W. Cole, Frank A. Grant, George L. Goodale, George H. Penrose, Robert H. Rolfe.
To be commissary with rank of captain—Hugh J. Gallagher, William P. Grove, James A. Logan, Jr.
Volunteer army—To be surgeons with rank of major—James D. Glennan, Chas. F. Mason, Ogden Rafferty, Thomas U. Raymond.
To be assistant surgeons with rank of captain—William O. [...]
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