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Description: Gen. Duffield Page 10
Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C., USA
Washington Herald June 24, 1907 Gen. Duffield Page 10
GEN. W. W. DUFFIELD DEAD.
Funeral of Veteran Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon.
Funeral services over the body of Gen. William W. DUFFIELD, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, who died Saturday, will be held at his home, 1633 Q street, to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. Herbert S. SMITH, rector of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery under the aupices [sp.] of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Gen. DUFFIELD was an honored member.
Gen. DUFFIELD was born in Carlisle, Pa., in 1823, and came to Washington in 1894 as superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. He lived for a number of years in Michigan, and at the outbreak of the civil war assisted in organizing the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, of which he was appointed lieutenant colonel. Later he was promoted to brigadier general. He served also in the war with Mexico as a lieutenant.
Gen. DUFFIELD was a prominent Mason, and was said to be the oldest living graduate of Columbia College, New York.