Percy Moreau Ashburn was a colonel and medical officer in the United States Army. With then Lieutenant Charles Franklin Craig, Ashburn made the link that mosquitoes were involved in the transmission o
Colonel Percy M. Ashburn
U.S. Army, Ashburn General Hospital, McKinney, Texas: Aerial view, circa 1943
Julius A. Penn was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of brigadier general during World War I, and commanded 170th Infantry Brigade, 85th Division and 76th Infantry Briga
Percy Moreau Ashburn
…Ashburn married Agnes Davis on July 6, 1896. Together they had three children. Major General Thomas Q. Ashburn was his brother. Brigadier General Julius Penn was his cousin. Ashburn was appointed a contract surgeon with the United States Army on May 30, 1898. He accepted a Regular Army commission as an…
Brigadier General Julius Penn, from the 1935 report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy.
Major General Chase Wilmot Kennedy and Brigadier General Penn reviewing troops at Camp Custer, Michigan, May 1918.
Penn second from left (beard and mustache) at opening of 1500th YMCA Center in France, November 10, 1918.