Smith, William Farrar, 1824-1903

LC control no.	nr 92009797
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Smith, William Farrar, 1824-1903 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Smith, W. F. (William Farrar), 1824-1903 Smith, Baldy, 1824-1903
Birth date	1824-02-17
Death date	1903-02-28
Found in	Meade, G.G. ALS to William Farrar Smith, 1863 July 5 (address: Genl. W.F. Smith) DAB (Smith, William Farrar; b. St. Albans, Vt., 2/17/1824; d. Philadelphia, 2/28/1903; U.S. Civil War general, engineer) LC in RLIN, 12/6/91 (MLC hdg.: Smith, William Farrar, 1824-1903; MLC usage: William Farrar Smith) Memorial of William F. Smith, President of the International Ocean Telegraph Company, 1870. William "Baldy" Smith, 2022: CIP galley (William Farrar Smith, major general in the Union army; grew up on a farm in northern Vermont; admitted to the United States Military Academy in 1841; class of 1945; At the academy, “Baldy,” as his classmates called him, studied engineering as well as military courses; helped to survey western Lake Erie in 1845-46; Between 1850 and 1856, he served as assistant to the chief astronomer for the United States-Mexico Border Commission, as the engineer officer for the Department of Texas, and as an assistant professor of mathematics at West Point; From 1859 to 1861, as secretary of the Lighthouse Board, he planned the construction of four first-class lighthouses; appointed colonel of the Third Vermont on July 23, 1861; Within a few weeks, he was commissioned a brigadier general of volunteers and given command of a brigade; During the postwar years, he served as one of the police commissioners in New York City from 1875 to 1881)