<p style="text-align:center"><strong>HENRY HARRISON CHASE DUNWOODY</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 2133 · Class of 1866</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died January 1, 1933, at Interlaken, N.Y., aged 90 years.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Interred at Sheldrake Springs, Cayuga Lake, near Ithaca, New York.</strong></p><p>General Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody was born October 23, 1842, in Highland County, Ohio. His parents, William Dunwoody and Sarah Murphy, were among those who followed the urge to move West and settled in Fairfield, Iowa, where General Dunwoody spent his boyhood days. After finishing school, he entered the law office of Senator Wilson, who later appointed him to West Point. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1866 and later graduated in law from Columbia University, Washington, D. C. (now George Washington University).</p><p>He married Clara Mills Dunwoody, daughter of General Madison Mills, who had served as Medical Director on General Grant's Staff during the Civil War.</p><p>General Dunwoody's service is best described in the following letter from General MacArthur, Chief of Staff, U.S.A., to Colonel Dunwoody, General Dunwoody's son.</p><p>"My dear Colonel Dunwoody:</p><p>I wish to extend to you on behalf of the officers of the War Department, and for myself personally, our sincere sympathy in the death of your father, Brigadier General Henry H. C. Dunwoody, United States Army, Retired.</p><p>General Dunwoody entered the United States Military Academy as a cadet on September 1, 1862; was appointed a second lieutenant, 4th Artillery, upon his graduation therefrom, June 18, 1866; promoted to first lieutenant, February 5, 1867; and captain, June 17, 1889; was appointed a major in the Signal Corps, with rank from December 18, 1890; promoted to lieutenant colonel, March 15, 1897; was Chief Signal Officer, United States Volunteers, with the grade of colonel, from June 1, 1898, to July 20, 1898; promoted to the permanent grade of colonel, July 8, 1898; appointed a brigadier general, July 6, 1904; and was retired at his own request, July 7, 1904, after more than forty years' service.</p><p>Following his early service as an artillery officer of various stations in the United States, General Dunwoody was for a number of years on duty in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D.C., engaged principally in weather forecasting and the study of meteorology. After the transfer of the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agriculture, he was detailed in 1891 for duty in that Bureau, where, as Chief of the Forecast Division, he inaugurated a system of distributing storm warnings which resulted in incalculable protection of human lives and property. This valuable service attracted general public attention, and was commended by the Secretary of Agriculture and The President.</p><p>Upon the outbreak of the Spanish American War, General Dunwoody organized the Volunteer Signal Corps, and served as Chief Signal Officer, Division of Cuba. His skill, energy, and unremitting zeal insured from the outset the successful reorganization and operation of the signal activities in Cuba. Returning to this country in May 1901, he was subsequently Acting Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D.C.; was Signal Officer, Department of the East, Governors Island, New York; and commanded the post at Fort Myer, Virginia, until his retirement.</p><p>He was awarded a medal at the World's Columbian Exhibition at Chicago, Illinois, in 1893,</p><blockquote><p>"for complete and exhaustive summaries and graphic representations of Meteorological Observations, and for its Valuable Contributions to Human Knowledge."</p></blockquote><p>During his long and distinguished military career, General Dunwoody exemplified those fine professional and personal qualifications which earned for him an enviable reputation as a Signal Corps Officer of rare scientific accomplishments and a gentleman of high character and ideals. The records bear ample testimony to the eminent success he attained in his chosen field of endeavor. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest officers on the retired list of the Army, having reached the remarkable age of ninety years, and his passing is deeply regretted throughout the service.</p><p>Very sincerely yours, Douglas MacArthur, General, Chief of Staff."</p><p>General Dunwoody died at Interlaken, New York, just a year after the decease of his wife, on January 1, 1933, and is buried at the family summer home, Sheldrake Springs, on Cayuga Lake near Ithaca, New York.</p><p>General Dunwoody is survived by a son, Colonel Halsey Dunwoody of 430 Gray Avenue, Webster Groves, Missouri (St. Louis), U.S.M.A., 1905-D. S. M. (World War), and two daughters, Mrs. Howard W. Nester, (Ellen Dunwoody), 10 Schussler Road, Worcester, Mass. and Mrs. West Chute Jacobs, (Esther Dunwoody), 43 Maple Place, Nutley, N.J.</p><p style="text-align:right">� H. D.</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/20471">Annual Report, June 12, 1933, pp. 53�56 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>