Museum Gallery

Crack Company 1891

Sergeant, Drum Corps 1885; Band (Tenor Drum) 1886; 2nd Lieutenant, Company C 1888; Deceased as of 1905

Reporter

Sergeant Major 1900

Captain and Cadet Aide-de-camp 1900

Corporal, Company C 1900

1886

1905

1887

1st Sergeant, Company B 1885; Commissioned 1st Lieutenant and Quartermaster 1886, Los Angeles in 1905

1883, 1885

Cadet, West Point in 1905

Sergeant, Company C 1903

Band (Bass Drum and Cymbals) 1886

1908

Resigned December 19, 1879

Read class history at graduation ceremonies 1902

Corporal 1881; Assistant Quartermaster 1883; Baseball Team 1884; Lawn Tennis Team 1884; Billiards Team 1884; Captain and Assistant Quartermaster 1885; Commissioned Captain, Assistant Quartermaster 1886 (Note: The 1883 school catalog has Linzee listed as an 1883 graduate)

1st Lieutenant, Company B 1903, Student, University of Michigan in 1905

1895

Company B 1892

1895

Band Sergeant (Bass Drum) 1895

Prize Speaker (Silver Medal) 1895

1900

1886

1890

1895

1881

Commissioned Captain 1892; Yearbook Editor 1892; MMA Minstrels Performance at Pontiac Opera House May 7, 1892; Musician, Crack Company 1891

1903

1st Sergeant, Company C 1886

Lieutenant, Company D 1905; Captain and Right Tackle, Football 1905; Goal, Hockey 1905

Corporal, Company B 1885

1887

Sergeant, Company C 1886

1885, 1886, 1887, 1888

Orchestra (Double Bass) 1905; Band (1st Trombone) 1905

Corporal 1880; 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant 1881; Company B 1881

Band (3rd Alto) 1895

Performed at the Columbian Saddle Horse Show (Color Bearer) 1893, With Knickerbocker Ice Co. in 1905

1892

Private 1907; Sergeant-Major 1908; Chi Sigma Chi

1897

Company D 1892; Baseball (Catcher) 1892; Football (Quarter Back) 1892

1883

1890

Corporal, Company B 1900

1885, 1886

1887

Corporal, Company D 1888, C. Lamb & Sons, Lumber in 1095

Sergeant, Company D 1887, Carpenter-Lamb Co. in 1905

USA 1954 pc sig. Gen. Frank Lahm, Aviator BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK P. LAHM Retired Nov. 20, 1941, Died July 7, 1963 Frank Purdy Lahm was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1877. He attended public school in Mansfield and later a Dominican school near Paris, France. Lahm then spent two years at Michigan Military Academy preparing for West Point, where he entered in June 1897. Although he graduated in the top fifth of his class, he found plenty of time for athletics. He held the rope climbing record at West Point, and his great enthusiasm for riding led him into the Cavalry upon graduation in 1901. He became a second lieutenant of cavalry and served in the Philippines for two years. Upon his return to the United States in 1903, Lieutenant Lahm was stationed at West Point as an instructor in French. The summer of 1904 was eventful. It marked the beginning of his activities in aeronautics. Lahm’s father had joined the Aero Club of France and owned the balloon the Katherine Hamilton, named in honor of his daughter. The elder Lahm made frequent ascensions and initiated his son in a night ascension. In the summer of 1905 young Lahm completed the requirements of six ascensions, including one at night and one alone, to win his Federation Aeronautique Internationale license as a balloon pilot. In July of the same summer Lahm became a first lieutenant. In 1906 young Lahm won the International Balloon Race, flying across the Channel from Paris, France to Yorkshire, England. Lieutenant Lahm contracted typhoid in the spring of 1907. He spent part of his convalescence at a rest home in St. Germain. One day the garden gate opened and in walked the senior Lahm and Wilbur and Orville Wright. This was the beginning of a warm friendship which lasted until the two brothers died. In August 1907, Lieutenant Lahm was assigned to the Aeronautical Division of the 0ffice of the Chief Signal Office in Washington. At Fort Myer Va., Lahm and a detachment of Signal Corps soldiers constructed a hydrogen generating plant and practiced captive observation balloon work. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and an early aviation enthusiast, often invited Lahm and young scientists to his Washington home for discussions on many subjects, especially aviation. The Wright brothers brought an improved version of their 1908 plane to Fort Myer, Va., in 1909 for official War Department tests. After practice hops Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Lahm as a passenger, made the first official test flight on July 27. He and Lahm established a world’s record for a two-man flight – one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. The Wright Brothers set out to fulfill their Army contracts by teaching officers to operate the machine. In October 1909 Wilbur Wright trained Lieutenants Lahm and Frederic E. Humphreys at a field in College Park, Md. Both officers soloed. With little more than three hours apiece flying time, Lahm and Humphreys were pronounced pilots on Oct 26.

Corporal, Company B 1885