1917 World War I cabinet card Edgar Jadwin, Lt. Col. 3rd U. S. Vol. Engineer

Description: Cabinet Card of Edgar Jadwin when he graduated first in the United States Military Academy class of 1890 and was commissioned in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Cabinet Card photograph portraiture 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". Image is of Edgar Jadwin who served with the engineer troops in 1891-1895 and was Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd U.S. Volunteer Engineers in the Spanish-American War. Upon the United States entry into WWI in 1917, he recruited the 15th Engineers, a railway construction regiment, and led it to France. He directed American construction and forestry work there for a year and received the Distinguished Service Medal. At the conclusion of the war, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Jadwin to investigate conditions in Poland in 1919. From 1922 to 1924, Jadwin headed the Corps' Charleston District and Southeast Division. He then served two years as Assistant Chief of Engineers and sponsored the plan for the flood control of the Mississippi River. No returns.footnotes: Major General Edgar Jadwin Chief of Engineers (June 27, 1926-August 7, 1929)Born August 7, 1865, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Edgar Jadwin graduated first in the Military Academy class of 1890 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He served with engineer troops in 1891-95 and was lieutenant colonel of the 3d U.S. Volunteer Engineers in the Spanish-American War. After serving as district engineer at the expanding ports of Los Angeles and Galveston, he was selected by General Goethals as an assistant in the construction of the Panama Canal. Jadwin served in 1911-16 in the Office of the Chief of Engineers focusing on bridge and road matters. Upon the United States' entry into World War I in 1917, he recruited the 15th Engineers, a railway construction regiment, and led it to France. He directed American construction and forestry work there for a year and received the Distinguished Service Medal. President Wilson appointed Jadwin to investigate conditions in Poland in 1919. In 1922-24 Jadwin headed the Corps' Charleston District and Southeast Division. He then served two years as Assistant Chief of Engineers. As Chief of Engineers he sponsored the plan for Mississippi River flood control that was adopted by Congress in May 1928. Jadwin retired as a lieutenant general, August 7, 1929. He died in Gorgas Hospital in the Canal Zone on March 2, 1931, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

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