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39 .1 V, 5 4. if -j ' ,,A .. ... g g .. . f- . 5-' '- f- 15- se: :s qr f, -' ' , f f f 1 ' a'fiffa,,., ' 5 a r .N . I - .. Q . I Fw, ,,, I is ,- . v f ff ae at JOHN CAMPBELL GREENWAY OHN CAMPBELL GREENWAY was born in Huntsville, Alabama, july 6th, 1872, the son of Gilbert C. Greenway, a native of Abingdon, Virginia, and Alice White Greenway, who came from Richmond, Kentucky. His early years were spent in Arkansas, the home of his parents. He was the second of five brothers, all students at the Episcopal High School of Virginia. Entering in the fall of 1887 at the age of fifteen, he remained here three years. He played on the football and base- ball teams for three years and was a monitor his last year. He was a student at the University of Virginia the vear '90-'91 where he was a member of the football and baseball teams. Deciding to study engineering he entered Yale in the fall of 1892 after spending a year in preparation at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Here and at Yale he played end on the football team and caught on the baseball team. Hinkey and Greenway were recognized as names of outstanding ends through- out intercollegiate circles and Carter and Greenway were said to have formed the greatest of Yale batteries of all time. After graduation he entered the service of the Carnegie Steel Company, working as a day laborer in the mill at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, in order to learn the business. Wlien the Spanish War began in 1898 he enlisted in Roosevelt's Rough Riders. ln his book Rough Riders Colonel Roosevelt said of him: A strapping fellow, entirely fearless, modest and quiet with the ability to take care of the men under him so as to bring them to the highest point of soldierly perfection, and to be counted upon with absolute certainty in every emergencyg not only doing his duty, but always on the watch to find some new duty which he could construe to be his, ready to respond with eagerness to the slightest suggestion of doing something, whether it was dangerous or merely difiicult and laborious. From 1901 until 1906 Greenway was amistant superintendent of mines for the United States Steel Corporation at lshpeming, Michigan. From 1906-1910 he was general superintendent of the Oliver Mining' Company on the Mesaba Range, lVIinnesota. During this period he built the town of Coleraine, Minnesota, and patented a log turbine for the working of iron ore, an important invention in this industry. ln 1910 he was called to Arizona as general manager of the Calumet and Arizona Copper Company where he made his home until his death in 1926. ln 1915 his company purchased the New Cornelia Copper Company, the oldest incorporated copper company in the State of Arizona but long inactive and never developed be- cause of the low grade ore. This property lay -in the desert 50 miles from the nearest railroad and consisted of only a few huts occupied by Mexicans. Greenway took the lead in applying a chemical process to the refinement of the low grade ore and as soon as this was proven practical, he built the modern mining town of Ajo with hospital and school, attractive sanitary houses for laborers beautified with How- ering desert plants, and connected his town with the Southern Pacific railroad. Eight
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,fff ff ff- . t f r , On October 15th, 1917, he entered the World War as major of 1st Engineers Clinej and left immediately for France. After a short time he secured transfer to the 101st Infantry, 26th Division, with which organization he served the remainder of the war, the last few months as its commanding officer. The following is a letter from General Geo. Van Horn Moseley, Asst. Chief of Staff: G. H. Q., Sec. 4, G. S., 15 Dec., 1918. Commander-in-Chief LIEUTENANT COLONEI JOHN C. GREENWAY. Commendation. Fran 1. As you were once a member of this section of the General Staff, and are now returning home after the completion of your duties in the A. E. F., I take this opportunity of recording in this official way a brief statement of your distinguished service and of our high appreciation of all you have accomplished. 2. You came to the service fully equipped for the emergency. Trained in a man's outdoor life in the Southwest, you possessed all the natural quali- fications of a leader. lt was such men as you who made the achievements of the Rough Riders possible. 3. You were connected with the important staff work at these head- quarters during the formative period of the A. E. F., and when our troops went seriously into the line you were with them in action on the Toule, Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry, San Mihiel, Meuse and Douamont fronts. In these actions you were either commanding your battalion or your regiment. For good work you were promoted to a Lieut. Colonelg for gallantry in action you were recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross. 4. The cessation of hositilities and the stopping of all promotions under instructions of the War Department alone kept you from receiving further promotion, as you were twice recommended for a Colonelcy. 5. Please accept our congratulations for all you have done. For me personally, the associations I have had with such men as you form the most treasured part of my military life. I am sending a copy of this letter to The Adjutant General of the Army for file with your military record. By order of the G. in C.: Geo. VAN HORN MOSELEY, Brigadier General, G. S., GVHNLWY Asst. Chief of Staff, G-4. The citation for D. S. C. says, For extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, ce, October 23rd, 1918. During a terrific enemy shelling on two of his bat talions, and after both his battalion commanders had been wounded, Colonel Green Nine
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