Lieutenant John Symington, First Cavalry, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on December 5th, 1876, graduated 61st in his class from United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on February 18th, 1901, served as a Second Lieutenant in the Eleventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment in Vermont, the Philippines, and Kansas. He was promoted to First Lieutenant with the First Cavalry Regiment on February 21st, 1906, and served with that regiment in Texas, the Philippines, Idaho, and California. He was on recruiting duty in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1909 and 1910, and in command of United States Troops at Colexico, in the fall of 1913.
He will be remembered by the older people of the southwest through his connection with the famous Armijo family, his great-great uncle, General Armijo, being the last Mexican Governor of New Mexico. His maternal grandfather, Don Ambrose Armijo, was one of the best known men in the great southwest in the '50s and '60s. His paternal grandfather, John Symington, graduated at West Point in 1815, and served continuously in the Ordnance Department of the Army until retired as Colonel in 1863. His father, Dr. John Symington, served creditably as a boy in Stribling's Confederate Battery in the Civil War, and after the war graduated from the Maryland Medical University, and came to be the leading physician and surgeon of New Mexico, the friend of every army officer who served in that territory from 1874 to 1896, the year of his death.
Lieutenant Symington left a mother and two little daughters, aged nine and seven years, respectively, who have the sympathy of all the officers, ladies, enlisted men and children who knew him, and one knew him but to love him for his honest, loyal, manly, yet gentle, character.
- [Obituary provided by the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans.]
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On August 5th, 1914, on of his minor childern applied for a pension while living in Maryland (application #1037366/certificate #786819)
- [Info provided by John Heseltine (#47064488)]
He will be remembered by the older people of the southwest through his connection with the famous Armijo family, his great-great uncle, General Armijo, being the last Mexican Governor of New Mexico. His maternal grandfather, Don Ambrose Armijo, was one of the best known men in the great southwest in the '50s and '60s. His paternal grandfather, John Symington, graduated at West Point in 1815, and served continuously in the Ordnance Department of the Army until retired as Colonel in 1863. His father, Dr. John Symington, served creditably as a boy in Stribling's Confederate Battery in the Civil War, and after the war graduated from the Maryland Medical University, and came to be the leading physician and surgeon of New Mexico, the friend of every army officer who served in that territory from 1874 to 1896, the year of his death.
Lieutenant Symington left a mother and two little daughters, aged nine and seven years, respectively, who have the sympathy of all the officers, ladies, enlisted men and children who knew him, and one knew him but to love him for his honest, loyal, manly, yet gentle, character.
- [Obituary provided by the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans.]
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On August 5th, 1914, on of his minor childern applied for a pension while living in Maryland (application #1037366/certificate #786819)
- [Info provided by John Heseltine (#47064488)]
Lieutenant John Symington, First Cavalry, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on December 5th, 1876, graduated 61st in his class from United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on February 18th, 1901, served as a Second Lieutenant in the Eleventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment in Vermont, the Philippines, and Kansas. He was promoted to First Lieutenant with the First Cavalry Regiment on February 21st, 1906, and served with that regiment in Texas, the Philippines, Idaho, and California. He was on recruiting duty in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1909 and 1910, and in command of United States Troops at Colexico, in the fall of 1913.
He will be remembered by the older people of the southwest through his connection with the famous Armijo family, his great-great uncle, General Armijo, being the last Mexican Governor of New Mexico. His maternal grandfather, Don Ambrose Armijo, was one of the best known men in the great southwest in the '50s and '60s. His paternal grandfather, John Symington, graduated at West Point in 1815, and served continuously in the Ordnance Department of the Army until retired as Colonel in 1863. His father, Dr. John Symington, served creditably as a boy in Stribling's Confederate Battery in the Civil War, and after the war graduated from the Maryland Medical University, and came to be the leading physician and surgeon of New Mexico, the friend of every army officer who served in that territory from 1874 to 1896, the year of his death.
Lieutenant Symington left a mother and two little daughters, aged nine and seven years, respectively, who have the sympathy of all the officers, ladies, enlisted men and children who knew him, and one knew him but to love him for his honest, loyal, manly, yet gentle, character.
- [Obituary provided by the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans.]
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On August 5th, 1914, on of his minor childern applied for a pension while living in Maryland (application #1037366/certificate #786819)
- [Info provided by John Heseltine (#47064488)]
He will be remembered by the older people of the southwest through his connection with the famous Armijo family, his great-great uncle, General Armijo, being the last Mexican Governor of New Mexico. His maternal grandfather, Don Ambrose Armijo, was one of the best known men in the great southwest in the '50s and '60s. His paternal grandfather, John Symington, graduated at West Point in 1815, and served continuously in the Ordnance Department of the Army until retired as Colonel in 1863. His father, Dr. John Symington, served creditably as a boy in Stribling's Confederate Battery in the Civil War, and after the war graduated from the Maryland Medical University, and came to be the leading physician and surgeon of New Mexico, the friend of every army officer who served in that territory from 1874 to 1896, the year of his death.
Lieutenant Symington left a mother and two little daughters, aged nine and seven years, respectively, who have the sympathy of all the officers, ladies, enlisted men and children who knew him, and one knew him but to love him for his honest, loyal, manly, yet gentle, character.
- [Obituary provided by the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans.]
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On August 5th, 1914, on of his minor childern applied for a pension while living in Maryland (application #1037366/certificate #786819)
- [Info provided by John Heseltine (#47064488)]
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