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Upon recovering from the effects of his wound he was promoted to the rank of major in recognition of his service in the field and was assigned to duty in the In- spector General's Department at Washing- ton, with which he was connected until he w-as retired as colonel in 1903.

At this time he accepted an appointment as Inspector General of the Soldiers' Homes of the United States, a position entailing the supervision of ten Homes in different parts of the country, with residents totalling ap- proximately thirty thousand. This post he filled until January I. 1906. when he became Governor of the Soldiers' Home at Hamp- ton, \'irginia, remaining as such until May 31, 1915, when he resigned. His success in the management of the Home was a matter of record, and those seeking the cause of the air of contentment and harmony that pervaded the Hampton Home during his incumbency as governor may find it in the ideal for which he ceaselessly strove and which he attained, genuine home atmos- phere with strict observance of the disci- pline required. Colonel Knox has many friends among the residents of the Home, and he labored diligently to provide the maximum of comforts for those under his care. Colonel Knox is popular in army circles, keeps in close touch with his com- rades of other days, and is a member of the Metropolitan Club, of Washington, District of Columbia, and the Manhattan Club, of New York City.

Colonel Knox married (first) Cornelia Grayson; (second) Mary Clare Hodges. Children of his first marriage: Cornelia Butler; Lieutenant > Commander Dudley Wright, born June 21, 1877, married, in 1907, Lillie McCalla, and has a son, Dudley Sar- gent, born in December, 1909; Captain Thomas McAllister. Daughter of second marriage, ^larguerite Stewart, married Max De Mott.

Lieutenant Commander Dudley Wright Knox was born in the state of Washington, and after attending the ])ublic and private schools of Washington, District of Colum- bia, entered the United States Naval Acad- emy at .\nnapolis, whence he was gradu- ated in 1896. From Cuba, where he was first assigned to duty, he went to the Philip- pines, where he was promoted to the rank of junior lieutenant and placed in command

of a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers, later being made a full lieutenant. By special order of the secretary of the navy he re- turned to the United States and was at- tached to the ordnance office of the Pacific fleet, an appointment recognizing his unus- ually rapid rise in the service. He sailed with the United States fleet that circumnavi- gated the globe. Arriving at Hampton Roads on the return trip in March, 1909, and was subsequently raised to the rank of lieutenant commander and was appointed ordnance officer of the Atlantic fleet, serv- ing on the staff of the commander of the torpedo boat flotilla. In November, 1914, Lieutenant Commander Knox received his present appointment to the Naval Intelli- gence Office at Washington, District of Co- lumbia. He is a well knovim writer upon naval subjects and has received numerous awards for articles submitted in competi- tion as well as honorary life membership in several naval organizations. His writings are of such recognized technical and prac- tical value that they have been translated into a number of foreign languages.

Captain Thomas McAllister Knox was born in Idaho, May 13, 1881. As a boy he attended the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia, and when his father's calling took the family to Arizona and Kan- sas he continued his studies under private tutors, subsequently enrolling at the State College of Pennsylvania. In 1899 he became a private in the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Infantry, United States army, and within a month gained a promotion to a second lieu- tenantcy, assigned to duty in the Philippine Islands. He returned to the United States in 1901, then a first lieutenant in rank, and at this time changed from the infantry to the cavalry branch of the army, becoming a second lieutenant in the Second Regiment, Cavalry, United States army. Two years later he was raised to first lieutenant, and in March, 1913, received his commission as captain in the Fifth L^nited States Cavalry.

Louis Keppler. Richmond, Virginia, is the place of birth and death of Louis Kcp- pler, born October 23, 1871, died October i, 1909. He was a son of Philip and Josephine ( Fahr) Keppler, his father for about thirty years a business man of Richmond, where his death occurred when he was forty-eight years of age. The wife of Philip Keppler,