1889 - 1953

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• Birth	26 Feb 1889	New Haven,Ct   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Nov 1953	Los Altos,Ca   [1]
  Person ID	I95057	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2005 00:00:00
  Family	Claire PARMELEE, b. 14 Jul 1890, Charlevoix,Mi
  Married	12 May 1912	Cavite,Pi   [3]
  Children	1. Claire Parmelee KELLEY   2. Frank Harrison KELLEY   3. Edmund Parmelee KELLEY   4. Archibald Parmelee KELLEY   5. Helen Patrica KELLEY
  Family ID	F41367	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Name Prefix: Admiral Graduated fron US Naval Academy at Annapolis in June, 1910. He had originally been with the Class of 1909, but he and many of his classmates got typhoid fever. Nine died, and he and a number of others losta year because of the length and seriousness of their illness. He began his naval career with 41 months of service on the USS South Dakota. As a CAPT, he took command of the USS West Point (formerly the commercial ship, America) in the fall of 1941. His ship evacuated the last British troops to leave Singapore before the Japanese took that city early in 1942. He was appointedCommandant of the Naval Training Station, Farragut, ID, and remained there asa Commodore throughout WWII. From the fall of 1942 until the end of the warthis facility trained some 293,000 naval recruits. It was second only to Great Lakes Naval Station in its size and contribution to the Navy war effort. At the end of the war Farragut Naval Station was to be closed. He worked veryclosely with the ID State and Federal governments to get the facilities transferred to the State for use as a college for returning veterans. As a result,Farragut College was formed in 1946. He was elected President of the board.The college ceased to exist in 1949. Listed as age 30 with wife, Claire, and3 sons He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1945 and retired from the Navy in 1946.

• Sources

  [S1431] Claire P Pearson Family Tree, Louise Ward Lynch, (aft 1956), p 1. [S1433] GEDCOM File : elihumoses.ged, Amos Matthews (momath@msn.com), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:3047288&id=I9245), 19 Jan 2005. [S1431] Claire P Pearson Family Tree, Louise Ward Lynch, (aft 1956), p 1,3.