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Scott (HUGH LENOX an American)

HUGH LENOX, an American military officer; born in Danville, Ky., Sept. 22, 1853; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1876, and detailed to duty in the West, where SCOTT he served in numerous Indian c mention from the War Department for his gallantry in the "Ghost-dance" outbreak in 1891. At the beginning of the Spanish- American War he was placed in command of the 1st Army Corps; was appointed adjutant-general of the Department of Havana in 1898, and of the Department of Cuba in 1900.

His other assignments included: Acting-Governor of Cuba, 1900-1902; Governor of the Philippines, 1903-1906; Superintendent United States Military Academy, 1906-1910; Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of Cavalry, 1911; Commander United States troops on southern border of Texas to California, 1913-1914; assistant Chief-of-Staff, 1914; settler of trouble on Mexican border at Naco, Ariz., June, 1915; appointed Major-General, 1915; service in Mexico, 1917; Commander 78th Division of National Army, Camp Dix, 1917. Was active at Arras, Chalons, Passchendael Ridge, 1917; awarded honorary degrees by Princeton and Columbia. Besides a monograph "Sign Language of the Plains Indians," he published numerous papers.