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<em>George Tayloe Langhorne</em> spent his boyhood in Virginia, had training at the Virginia Military Institute and entered West Point in 1885, graduating in 1889. After serving as an aide to General Frank Wheaton in Texas and General George W. Davis in Puerto Rico, he went to the Philippines in 1899 as a major with the 39th US Volunteers. It was here in Laguna Province that a beautiful silk flag, made and embroidered by the women of the village of San Pablo, was presented to the 2d Batallion under Major Langhorne’s command by the people of San Pablo in recognition of the treatment and services rendered to them. In 1954 Colonel Langhorne gave the flag to the Museum of West Point in memory of Lieutenant General Robert L. Bullard, the organizer of the 39th US Volunteers.</div>
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Colonel Langhorne was in the Philippines several times as aide again to General Davis, as aide to General Leonard Wood, as secretary of the Moro Province, and acting governor during General Wood’s absence—and later as civilian aide to General Wood when he was Governor General. He was sent to British North Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, and the Federated Malay States to make reports on the governments of these colonies. He made quite a collection of books on the Philippines and Southeast Asia, which has now been given to the Library of International Relations and the Natural History Museum of Chicago. He made many friends among the Philippine people and at his death the Manila morning paper published a most laudatory editorial on his work in the Islands. Many years had passed but he had not been forgotten.</div>
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His friendship with and devotion to General Wood was one of the great factors in his life and it was reciprocated by a firm friendship and great kindness on the General’s part.</div>
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In 1908 he went to Europe as aide to General Wood to attend the maneuvers of the French and German armies. It was at this time he was awarded the Legion of Honor.</div>
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During his career he was Military Attache both at Brussels and Berlin.</div>
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General Frank Ross McCoy and Colonel Langhorne were on their way to the Philippines in 1922 when the great earthquake struck Japan. They were at once ordered there and Colonel Langhorne assisted General McCoy in dispensing American aid. The Japanese never forgot this and after Colonel Langhorne was married and settled in Chicago, many distinguished Japanese came to see him and expressed their gratitude.</div>
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One of the military duties of which he was most proud was his service as colonel of the 8th Cavalry. General Harbord wrote of this regiment at the time, "Never equalled in our Army nor excelled by any Cavalry regiment in the world." Every year to the year of his death he received letters from men who had been with him in this regiment.</div>
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For sports, his great love was polo, and wherever he was stationed he liked to organize polo teams. In Manila when he was on civilian duty with the Governor General he taught three young Spaniards—brothers—to play and they had some very successful years. He was a magnificent horseman.</div>
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In later years when he had retired and had a summer home on Mount Desert Island in Maine he took to climbing and enjoyed it very much, unusual in a Cavalryman.</div>
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He went to Kenya and Tanganyika in 1935 on a safari with Major Frances Colby of Hamilton, Mass., an experienced hunter. They had excellent shooting and Colonel Langhorne was fortunate enough to get an extraordinarily fine black-maned lion.</div>
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In Chicago he was President of the West Point Society, the Army and Navy Club, the Friends of Poland, and the Friends of China.</div>
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Toward the end of his life he had rather a long period of semi-invalidism which he bore with grace and good humor. He never thought of himself as old, nor did he seem so, only frail. He could adjust himself to any circumstances, and wherever he was he made friends—young and old—of every type, of every class.</div>
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<em>—Mary Waller Langhorne</em></div>