RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK JR.
USMA CLASS OF 1914
CULLUM'S REGISTER # 5261
NEPHEW OF GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING
MEXICAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION - 1917
WORLD WAR ONE VETERAN
GEN. PERSHING STAFF IN FRANCE - 1918
LT. COL. SIGNAL CORPS , A. E. F.
DIVISION SIGNAL OFFICER, 15TH DIV. , 1918-19
AWARDED CROIX DE GUERRE OF FRANCE
MAJOR, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY - 1923
ASST. CHIEF OF STAFF, G-1, PHILIPPINES , 1927-29
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5261. ( Born Wyo. ). RICHARD B. PADDOCK. ( Ap'd at Large ). 56
( Richard Bolles Paddock, Born April 16, 1891 )
Military History. --- Cadet at the Military Academy , March 1, 1910 to June 12, 1914, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
( ADDITIONAL SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS )
( SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 23, 1914 )
Served: At Fort Wentworth, N. Y., with company, Sept. 12, 1914 to
( FIRST LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 1, 1916 )
July 20, 1916 ; at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Post Signal Officer, to May 17, 1917 ; sailed to France on Staff of Chief Signal Officer, A. E. F. , May 28, 1917 ; at General Hdqrs. , A. E. F.., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to
( CAPTAIN, COZAST ARTILLERY CORPS, July 25, 1917 )
( MAJOR, TEMPORARY , SIGNAL CORPS, Nov. 9, 1917 )
February 1918;
( SIGNAL CORPS, BY DETAIL, FEB. 10, 1918 )
with 1st Division, commanding 2nd Field Signal Battalion ; Acting Division Signal Officer and Signal Officer to Aug. 28 ; wounded May 1 and again July 25 ; en route to U. S. , Sept. 6 ; at Washington D. C., student officer at Army War College, October 1918.
( LIEUT.-COLONEL, SIGNAL CORPS, U. S. A., OCT 11, 1918 )
Division Signal Officer, 15th Division, to February, 1919 ; at Washington D. C., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to October 1919 ; at Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, N. J., October, 1919, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, MAY 10, 1920 )
( TRANSFERRED TO FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( RELEIVED SIGNAL CORPS, SEPT. 30, 1920 )
Oct. 20, 1920 ; at Camp Dix, N. J., with the 6th Field Artillery, Oct. 20, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1920 ; at Fort Sill, Okla., student officer, Battery Commanders Course, Field Artillery School, to June 30, 1921, when he was graduated ; Instructor, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, DEC. 18, 1922 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JAN. 29, 1923 )
June 15, 1925 ; on leave of absence to Aug. 27, 1925 ; at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., student officer , Command and General Staff School, Aug. 29, 1925 to June 19, 1926 ; on leave of absence to July 19, 1926 ; at Camp Lewis, Wash., commanding a battalion of the 10th Field Artillery, July 23, 1926, to Jan. 1, 1927 ; en route to the Philippine Islands, to Feb. 9, 1927 ; at camp Stotsenburg, P. I., commanding a battalion of the 24th Field Artillery, Feb. 9, 1927, to July 1, 1927 ; at fort William McKinley, P. I., Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, Philippine Division, July 12, 1927, to ( Acting Chief of Staff, July 1, 1928 to Oct. 20, 1928 ) Jan 21, 1929 ; at Fort William McKinley, P. I., to Apr. 10, 1929 ; en route to the United States to May 7, 1929.
( RESIGNED, MAY 14, 1929 )
Awarded French Croix de Guerre ; authorized to wear the French Fourragere as an individual decoration.
Civil History : --- Director of Personnel and General Sales Engineer, Ray Burner Company, San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 1929 to May 31, 1930 ; Vice President and Chief Engineer, Schwan Gas Burner Company, Dallas , Tex., June 1, 1930 to ---
Address : 1207 South Lamar St., Dallas, Tx.
1933 - Vice President Schwan Burner Co. of Dallas, Texas and manager of Brown and Bigalow . Lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
1942 --- Resided in Washington D. C., based on WW2 draft record
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WORLD WAR 1 CASUALTIES
OF AMERICAN ARMY OVERSEAS
Reported May 13, 1918
NEW YORK TIMES
Major Richard B. Paddock , Son of late General was stationed here until 1916
Major Richard B. Paddock of the regular army, who is reported slightly wounded in yesterday's casualty list, is a nephew of General Pershing and a West Pointer of the Class of 1914. Major Paddock, who is in the Signal Corps, is a native of Wyoming and is 27 years old. On June 15, 1914, three days after his graduation from West Point, he married Miss Anne Cunningham, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham of 40 Hamilton Place, this city. Mrs. Paddock , accompanied by her little son, Richard B. Paddock Jr., is now on her way to New York from California. She was notified by telegraph yesterday that her husband had been wounded, but was in no danger.
Major Paddock is the son of the late Brig. Gen, Paddock, who was one of the American officers killed in the advance on Peking in the Boxer uprising of 1900. His mother was a sister of General Pershing. She died in the early boyhood of Major Paddock, who was then taken charge of and reared by Miss May Pershing of Lincoln, Neb., General Pershing's sister. Miss Pershing is caring for little Warren Pershing, the only son of the American Commander in chief.
After his graduation from West Point, Major Paddock , then a Lieutenant of Artillery, was on duty in New York, and until 1916 was in charge of the Police Reserve Training Camp on Staten Island. When General Pershing was ordered to command the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916, the Lieutenant was relieved of that duty and went to the border to serve under his uncle. General Pershing later succeeded to the command of the Southern Department, with headquarters in San Antonio ; Major and Mrs. Paddock took a house in that city and General Pershing made his home with them.
NOTE: Major Paddock's Army career would end with the rank of Major after inappropriate relationships with another officer's wife. Apparently , this was with his second wife, as he did not resign until 1929. In all, he had four wives, which indicates he did love the ladies, all of them.
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FAMILY:
Father :--- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK SR. --- ( 1859 - 1901 ) was a United States Army officer, close friend and brother-in-law to John J. Pershing, and one of the few American officers who died while on duty in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Paddock served in the American Southwest during the Apache Wars , as well as the Pine Ridge Campaign ( 1890-91 ), the Battle of San Juan Hill ( 1898 ) in Cuba during the Spanish American War, and finally the China Relief Expedition ( 1900-01 ). Paddock served as a lieutenant and captain in the 13th Infantry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment, and the 6th Cavalry Regiment.
Still not recovered from attacks of malaria contracted in Cuba, Paddock developed severe pneumonia during strenuous march from Peking to Tientsen, China, during the Boxer Rebellion. He was hospitalized in serious condition March 2 and died March 9, 1901 in Tientsen. His remains were returned to Princeton, Illinois for a funeral and internment at Oakland Cemetery.
Mother: ---- GRACE PERSHING, ( 1867 - 1903 )---- At Fort Stanton in 1887, Paddock met Lt. John J. Pershing, a recent West Point graduate. Paddock, Pershing , and another young lieutenant, Julius Penn, became close friends and lived an idyllic frontier lifestyle of hunting, carousing and visits to Mexican dances. Paddock met Pershing's sister Grace while she was visiting Fort Stanton. They were married while Paddock was on leave in Chicago June 5, 1890. The families of Richard Paddock and John Pershing later lived close by in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
After her husbands death in 1901, Grace Pershing Paddock became very ill in 1903, bedridden with rheumatism. She died April 25, 1904 in Chicago.
Uncle : --- GENERAL JOHN J. " BLACK JACK " PERSHING ( 1860 - 1948 ) General of the American Army in World War One , charged up San Juan Hill with his black regiment, fought in the Indian Wars, his career is too storied to repeat here.
When his friend Captain Paddock died in 1901, and sister Grace Pershing Paddock passed away in 1904, he first took the couples two children May and Richard Jr. in and they were under his guardianship in Washington D. C. However, with Capt. Pershing's pending assignment to observe the Russo-Japanese War, Pershing's father John F. Pershing assumed guardianship of the children in Chicago, August 18, 1905. Richard Paddock Jr. and May Paddock spent considerable time under John J. and Helen Pershing's care during Pershing's command of American forces in the Philippines.
Sister :--- MAY PADDOCK ( 1892 - 1918 ) --- daughter of Captain Richard Bolles Paddock and Grace Pershing Paddock, and sister to Richard B. Paddock Jr. she married Frank Benjamin Tipton in 1914, and they made their home in Nebraska. She had one child, Frank B. Tipton III.
From the Grand Island Daily Independent, 1 November 1918
Lincoln, Neb., --Mrs. May Tipton , a niece of General John J. Pershing and a sister of Colonel Richard Paddock, a member of General Pershing's staff , died here today. death was due to blood poisoning. Mrs. Tipton's death occurred art the home of Mrs. D. M. Butler, a sister of General Pershing.
NOTE: Both General Pershing and Colonel Paddock were in France and thus unable to attend the funeral. Pershing was no stranger to tragedy, having lost his wife and three daughters to a fire in 1915.
WIFE # 1 : ANNE CUNNINGHAM ( 1894 - )--- Married 12 June 1914. The marriage later ended in divorce. They had the following child.
SON # 1 : --- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK III ( 31 March 1915 - August 14, 1966 ) --- born in New York City, worked as a physician in Houston , Texas. Passed away in Acapulco , Mexico, due to an accidental drowning, age 51. Survivor was Mrs. Rita L. Paddock. Married Margery Reid on 19 September 1938, not sure if the women are the same. First buried at " Panteon Municipal de las Cruces" cemetery in Acapulco, Mexico. He may still remain there as there is no listing in the United States. His wife applied for a military marker for his grave there.
WIFE # 2 : --- DORIS VAN JOHNSON, ( 19 Feb 1895 - 21 August 1955 ) Married on 20 September 1920. The marriage ended in divorce. They had the following child.
Son # 2 : --- JOHN PERSHING " JACK " PADDOCK ( 30 June 1921 - 19 July 1996 ), longtime resident of Palo Alto, died July 19. A native of Fort Sill, Okla,. he lived in the Philippines, Panama , and San Francisco as a child. He served in the U. S. Army as a paratrooper during World War Two and received a bachelor of arts and a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University. He taught mathematics at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey before becoming an electrical engineer for 24 years at NASA Ames Research Center, where he designed instruments to measure the ozone layer. He was recently the treasurer for the Barron Park Association and the Northern California Unitarian Universalist Camps and Conferences. as a graduate of the Palo Alto Police Department's first Citizen's Police Academy and an amateur radio operator, he was appointed a Santa Clara County Radio Officer. He is survived by his wife, Marty Paddock of Palo Alto; three sons , Randall Paddock of San Diego, Richard C. Paddock of Berkeley, and John Pershing Paddock Jr. of San Francisco ; one daughter , Caroline Paddock of Berkeley ; and two grandsons.
Wife # 3 : --- ALICE EVELYN WARWICK ( 4 Feb 1904 -- 13 Feb 1984 ) Married 31 December 1931.
Wife # 4 : --- KATHRYN A. WHARFF, Married 17 May 1950 in San Diego, California . She was 55 at the time.
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1900
Fort Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Kansas
Sheet # 1
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Male, 40, Head, Illinois
SCOTT WOOD, Male, 27, Sergeant
GRACE R. PADDOCK, Female, 31, Wife, Missouri
CHARLES STONE, Male, 30, Corporal
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, 9, Son, Wyoming
WILLIAM C. WENDROW, Male, 33, Corporal
MAY PADDOCK, Female, 7, Daughter, Missouri
JOHN HUDDLESTON, Male, 30, Corporal
BENJAMIN EVERETT, Male, 13, Servant, New York
JOHN TEGMUIR, Male, 32, Corporal
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1910
Lincoln
Lancaster
Nebraska
Sheet # 8B
MARY E. BUTLER, Head, Female, 45, Missouri
MAY PERSHING, Sister, Female, 39, Missouri
MAY PADDOCK, Niece, Female, 17, Missouri
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Nephew, Male, 19, Missouri
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U. S CENSUS --1910
Highland
Orange
New York
Sheet # 5B
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, Single, White, 18, Wyoming
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U. S. CENSUS - 1920
New York City
New York
Sheet # 9A
ANNE PADDOCK, Head, Female, 34, New York
RICHARD PADDOCK JR., Son, Male, 4, New York
NOTE: Major Paddock had divorced Anne Paddock by 1920.
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U. S. CENSUS --1940
Evanston
Cook
Illinois
Sheet # 66A
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Head, Male, 49, Wyoming
ALICE PADDOCK, Wife, Female, 35, Tennessee
LOUISE HOLMES, MaId, Female, 42, Tennessee
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Major Richard Paddock passed away in 1952 from Coronary Sclerosis. Woodlawn Cemetery in Los Angeles handled the funeral arrangements , and his body was cremated.
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Researched and transcribed by
ED CATTERSON
[email protected]
3/5/2021
USMA CLASS OF 1914
CULLUM'S REGISTER # 5261
NEPHEW OF GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING
MEXICAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION - 1917
WORLD WAR ONE VETERAN
GEN. PERSHING STAFF IN FRANCE - 1918
LT. COL. SIGNAL CORPS , A. E. F.
DIVISION SIGNAL OFFICER, 15TH DIV. , 1918-19
AWARDED CROIX DE GUERRE OF FRANCE
MAJOR, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY - 1923
ASST. CHIEF OF STAFF, G-1, PHILIPPINES , 1927-29
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5261. ( Born Wyo. ). RICHARD B. PADDOCK. ( Ap'd at Large ). 56
( Richard Bolles Paddock, Born April 16, 1891 )
Military History. --- Cadet at the Military Academy , March 1, 1910 to June 12, 1914, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
( ADDITIONAL SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS )
( SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 23, 1914 )
Served: At Fort Wentworth, N. Y., with company, Sept. 12, 1914 to
( FIRST LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 1, 1916 )
July 20, 1916 ; at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Post Signal Officer, to May 17, 1917 ; sailed to France on Staff of Chief Signal Officer, A. E. F. , May 28, 1917 ; at General Hdqrs. , A. E. F.., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to
( CAPTAIN, COZAST ARTILLERY CORPS, July 25, 1917 )
( MAJOR, TEMPORARY , SIGNAL CORPS, Nov. 9, 1917 )
February 1918;
( SIGNAL CORPS, BY DETAIL, FEB. 10, 1918 )
with 1st Division, commanding 2nd Field Signal Battalion ; Acting Division Signal Officer and Signal Officer to Aug. 28 ; wounded May 1 and again July 25 ; en route to U. S. , Sept. 6 ; at Washington D. C., student officer at Army War College, October 1918.
( LIEUT.-COLONEL, SIGNAL CORPS, U. S. A., OCT 11, 1918 )
Division Signal Officer, 15th Division, to February, 1919 ; at Washington D. C., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to October 1919 ; at Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, N. J., October, 1919, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, MAY 10, 1920 )
( TRANSFERRED TO FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( RELEIVED SIGNAL CORPS, SEPT. 30, 1920 )
Oct. 20, 1920 ; at Camp Dix, N. J., with the 6th Field Artillery, Oct. 20, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1920 ; at Fort Sill, Okla., student officer, Battery Commanders Course, Field Artillery School, to June 30, 1921, when he was graduated ; Instructor, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, DEC. 18, 1922 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JAN. 29, 1923 )
June 15, 1925 ; on leave of absence to Aug. 27, 1925 ; at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., student officer , Command and General Staff School, Aug. 29, 1925 to June 19, 1926 ; on leave of absence to July 19, 1926 ; at Camp Lewis, Wash., commanding a battalion of the 10th Field Artillery, July 23, 1926, to Jan. 1, 1927 ; en route to the Philippine Islands, to Feb. 9, 1927 ; at camp Stotsenburg, P. I., commanding a battalion of the 24th Field Artillery, Feb. 9, 1927, to July 1, 1927 ; at fort William McKinley, P. I., Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, Philippine Division, July 12, 1927, to ( Acting Chief of Staff, July 1, 1928 to Oct. 20, 1928 ) Jan 21, 1929 ; at Fort William McKinley, P. I., to Apr. 10, 1929 ; en route to the United States to May 7, 1929.
( RESIGNED, MAY 14, 1929 )
Awarded French Croix de Guerre ; authorized to wear the French Fourragere as an individual decoration.
Civil History : --- Director of Personnel and General Sales Engineer, Ray Burner Company, San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 1929 to May 31, 1930 ; Vice President and Chief Engineer, Schwan Gas Burner Company, Dallas , Tex., June 1, 1930 to ---
Address : 1207 South Lamar St., Dallas, Tx.
1933 - Vice President Schwan Burner Co. of Dallas, Texas and manager of Brown and Bigalow . Lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
1942 --- Resided in Washington D. C., based on WW2 draft record
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WORLD WAR 1 CASUALTIES
OF AMERICAN ARMY OVERSEAS
Reported May 13, 1918
NEW YORK TIMES
Major Richard B. Paddock , Son of late General was stationed here until 1916
Major Richard B. Paddock of the regular army, who is reported slightly wounded in yesterday's casualty list, is a nephew of General Pershing and a West Pointer of the Class of 1914. Major Paddock, who is in the Signal Corps, is a native of Wyoming and is 27 years old. On June 15, 1914, three days after his graduation from West Point, he married Miss Anne Cunningham, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham of 40 Hamilton Place, this city. Mrs. Paddock , accompanied by her little son, Richard B. Paddock Jr., is now on her way to New York from California. She was notified by telegraph yesterday that her husband had been wounded, but was in no danger.
Major Paddock is the son of the late Brig. Gen, Paddock, who was one of the American officers killed in the advance on Peking in the Boxer uprising of 1900. His mother was a sister of General Pershing. She died in the early boyhood of Major Paddock, who was then taken charge of and reared by Miss May Pershing of Lincoln, Neb., General Pershing's sister. Miss Pershing is caring for little Warren Pershing, the only son of the American Commander in chief.
After his graduation from West Point, Major Paddock , then a Lieutenant of Artillery, was on duty in New York, and until 1916 was in charge of the Police Reserve Training Camp on Staten Island. When General Pershing was ordered to command the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916, the Lieutenant was relieved of that duty and went to the border to serve under his uncle. General Pershing later succeeded to the command of the Southern Department, with headquarters in San Antonio ; Major and Mrs. Paddock took a house in that city and General Pershing made his home with them.
NOTE: Major Paddock's Army career would end with the rank of Major after inappropriate relationships with another officer's wife. Apparently , this was with his second wife, as he did not resign until 1929. In all, he had four wives, which indicates he did love the ladies, all of them.
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FAMILY:
Father :--- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK SR. --- ( 1859 - 1901 ) was a United States Army officer, close friend and brother-in-law to John J. Pershing, and one of the few American officers who died while on duty in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Paddock served in the American Southwest during the Apache Wars , as well as the Pine Ridge Campaign ( 1890-91 ), the Battle of San Juan Hill ( 1898 ) in Cuba during the Spanish American War, and finally the China Relief Expedition ( 1900-01 ). Paddock served as a lieutenant and captain in the 13th Infantry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment, and the 6th Cavalry Regiment.
Still not recovered from attacks of malaria contracted in Cuba, Paddock developed severe pneumonia during strenuous march from Peking to Tientsen, China, during the Boxer Rebellion. He was hospitalized in serious condition March 2 and died March 9, 1901 in Tientsen. His remains were returned to Princeton, Illinois for a funeral and internment at Oakland Cemetery.
Mother: ---- GRACE PERSHING, ( 1867 - 1903 )---- At Fort Stanton in 1887, Paddock met Lt. John J. Pershing, a recent West Point graduate. Paddock, Pershing , and another young lieutenant, Julius Penn, became close friends and lived an idyllic frontier lifestyle of hunting, carousing and visits to Mexican dances. Paddock met Pershing's sister Grace while she was visiting Fort Stanton. They were married while Paddock was on leave in Chicago June 5, 1890. The families of Richard Paddock and John Pershing later lived close by in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
After her husbands death in 1901, Grace Pershing Paddock became very ill in 1903, bedridden with rheumatism. She died April 25, 1904 in Chicago.
Uncle : --- GENERAL JOHN J. " BLACK JACK " PERSHING ( 1860 - 1948 ) General of the American Army in World War One , charged up San Juan Hill with his black regiment, fought in the Indian Wars, his career is too storied to repeat here.
When his friend Captain Paddock died in 1901, and sister Grace Pershing Paddock passed away in 1904, he first took the couples two children May and Richard Jr. in and they were under his guardianship in Washington D. C. However, with Capt. Pershing's pending assignment to observe the Russo-Japanese War, Pershing's father John F. Pershing assumed guardianship of the children in Chicago, August 18, 1905. Richard Paddock Jr. and May Paddock spent considerable time under John J. and Helen Pershing's care during Pershing's command of American forces in the Philippines.
Sister :--- MAY PADDOCK ( 1892 - 1918 ) --- daughter of Captain Richard Bolles Paddock and Grace Pershing Paddock, and sister to Richard B. Paddock Jr. she married Frank Benjamin Tipton in 1914, and they made their home in Nebraska. She had one child, Frank B. Tipton III.
From the Grand Island Daily Independent, 1 November 1918
Lincoln, Neb., --Mrs. May Tipton , a niece of General John J. Pershing and a sister of Colonel Richard Paddock, a member of General Pershing's staff , died here today. death was due to blood poisoning. Mrs. Tipton's death occurred art the home of Mrs. D. M. Butler, a sister of General Pershing.
NOTE: Both General Pershing and Colonel Paddock were in France and thus unable to attend the funeral. Pershing was no stranger to tragedy, having lost his wife and three daughters to a fire in 1915.
WIFE # 1 : ANNE CUNNINGHAM ( 1894 - )--- Married 12 June 1914. The marriage later ended in divorce. They had the following child.
SON # 1 : --- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK III ( 31 March 1915 - August 14, 1966 ) --- born in New York City, worked as a physician in Houston , Texas. Passed away in Acapulco , Mexico, due to an accidental drowning, age 51. Survivor was Mrs. Rita L. Paddock. Married Margery Reid on 19 September 1938, not sure if the women are the same. First buried at " Panteon Municipal de las Cruces" cemetery in Acapulco, Mexico. He may still remain there as there is no listing in the United States. His wife applied for a military marker for his grave there.
WIFE # 2 : --- DORIS VAN JOHNSON, ( 19 Feb 1895 - 21 August 1955 ) Married on 20 September 1920. The marriage ended in divorce. They had the following child.
Son # 2 : --- JOHN PERSHING " JACK " PADDOCK ( 30 June 1921 - 19 July 1996 ), longtime resident of Palo Alto, died July 19. A native of Fort Sill, Okla,. he lived in the Philippines, Panama , and San Francisco as a child. He served in the U. S. Army as a paratrooper during World War Two and received a bachelor of arts and a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University. He taught mathematics at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey before becoming an electrical engineer for 24 years at NASA Ames Research Center, where he designed instruments to measure the ozone layer. He was recently the treasurer for the Barron Park Association and the Northern California Unitarian Universalist Camps and Conferences. as a graduate of the Palo Alto Police Department's first Citizen's Police Academy and an amateur radio operator, he was appointed a Santa Clara County Radio Officer. He is survived by his wife, Marty Paddock of Palo Alto; three sons , Randall Paddock of San Diego, Richard C. Paddock of Berkeley, and John Pershing Paddock Jr. of San Francisco ; one daughter , Caroline Paddock of Berkeley ; and two grandsons.
Wife # 3 : --- ALICE EVELYN WARWICK ( 4 Feb 1904 -- 13 Feb 1984 ) Married 31 December 1931.
Wife # 4 : --- KATHRYN A. WHARFF, Married 17 May 1950 in San Diego, California . She was 55 at the time.
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1900
Fort Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Kansas
Sheet # 1
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Male, 40, Head, Illinois
SCOTT WOOD, Male, 27, Sergeant
GRACE R. PADDOCK, Female, 31, Wife, Missouri
CHARLES STONE, Male, 30, Corporal
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, 9, Son, Wyoming
WILLIAM C. WENDROW, Male, 33, Corporal
MAY PADDOCK, Female, 7, Daughter, Missouri
JOHN HUDDLESTON, Male, 30, Corporal
BENJAMIN EVERETT, Male, 13, Servant, New York
JOHN TEGMUIR, Male, 32, Corporal
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1910
Lincoln
Lancaster
Nebraska
Sheet # 8B
MARY E. BUTLER, Head, Female, 45, Missouri
MAY PERSHING, Sister, Female, 39, Missouri
MAY PADDOCK, Niece, Female, 17, Missouri
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Nephew, Male, 19, Missouri
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U. S CENSUS --1910
Highland
Orange
New York
Sheet # 5B
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, Single, White, 18, Wyoming
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U. S. CENSUS - 1920
New York City
New York
Sheet # 9A
ANNE PADDOCK, Head, Female, 34, New York
RICHARD PADDOCK JR., Son, Male, 4, New York
NOTE: Major Paddock had divorced Anne Paddock by 1920.
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U. S. CENSUS --1940
Evanston
Cook
Illinois
Sheet # 66A
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Head, Male, 49, Wyoming
ALICE PADDOCK, Wife, Female, 35, Tennessee
LOUISE HOLMES, MaId, Female, 42, Tennessee
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Major Richard Paddock passed away in 1952 from Coronary Sclerosis. Woodlawn Cemetery in Los Angeles handled the funeral arrangements , and his body was cremated.
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Researched and transcribed by
ED CATTERSON
[email protected]
3/5/2021
RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK JR.
USMA CLASS OF 1914
CULLUM'S REGISTER # 5261
NEPHEW OF GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING
MEXICAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION - 1917
WORLD WAR ONE VETERAN
GEN. PERSHING STAFF IN FRANCE - 1918
LT. COL. SIGNAL CORPS , A. E. F.
DIVISION SIGNAL OFFICER, 15TH DIV. , 1918-19
AWARDED CROIX DE GUERRE OF FRANCE
MAJOR, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY - 1923
ASST. CHIEF OF STAFF, G-1, PHILIPPINES , 1927-29
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5261. ( Born Wyo. ). RICHARD B. PADDOCK. ( Ap'd at Large ). 56
( Richard Bolles Paddock, Born April 16, 1891 )
Military History. --- Cadet at the Military Academy , March 1, 1910 to June 12, 1914, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
( ADDITIONAL SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS )
( SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 23, 1914 )
Served: At Fort Wentworth, N. Y., with company, Sept. 12, 1914 to
( FIRST LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 1, 1916 )
July 20, 1916 ; at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Post Signal Officer, to May 17, 1917 ; sailed to France on Staff of Chief Signal Officer, A. E. F. , May 28, 1917 ; at General Hdqrs. , A. E. F.., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to
( CAPTAIN, COZAST ARTILLERY CORPS, July 25, 1917 )
( MAJOR, TEMPORARY , SIGNAL CORPS, Nov. 9, 1917 )
February 1918;
( SIGNAL CORPS, BY DETAIL, FEB. 10, 1918 )
with 1st Division, commanding 2nd Field Signal Battalion ; Acting Division Signal Officer and Signal Officer to Aug. 28 ; wounded May 1 and again July 25 ; en route to U. S. , Sept. 6 ; at Washington D. C., student officer at Army War College, October 1918.
( LIEUT.-COLONEL, SIGNAL CORPS, U. S. A., OCT 11, 1918 )
Division Signal Officer, 15th Division, to February, 1919 ; at Washington D. C., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to October 1919 ; at Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, N. J., October, 1919, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, MAY 10, 1920 )
( TRANSFERRED TO FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( RELEIVED SIGNAL CORPS, SEPT. 30, 1920 )
Oct. 20, 1920 ; at Camp Dix, N. J., with the 6th Field Artillery, Oct. 20, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1920 ; at Fort Sill, Okla., student officer, Battery Commanders Course, Field Artillery School, to June 30, 1921, when he was graduated ; Instructor, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, DEC. 18, 1922 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JAN. 29, 1923 )
June 15, 1925 ; on leave of absence to Aug. 27, 1925 ; at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., student officer , Command and General Staff School, Aug. 29, 1925 to June 19, 1926 ; on leave of absence to July 19, 1926 ; at Camp Lewis, Wash., commanding a battalion of the 10th Field Artillery, July 23, 1926, to Jan. 1, 1927 ; en route to the Philippine Islands, to Feb. 9, 1927 ; at camp Stotsenburg, P. I., commanding a battalion of the 24th Field Artillery, Feb. 9, 1927, to July 1, 1927 ; at fort William McKinley, P. I., Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, Philippine Division, July 12, 1927, to ( Acting Chief of Staff, July 1, 1928 to Oct. 20, 1928 ) Jan 21, 1929 ; at Fort William McKinley, P. I., to Apr. 10, 1929 ; en route to the United States to May 7, 1929.
( RESIGNED, MAY 14, 1929 )
Awarded French Croix de Guerre ; authorized to wear the French Fourragere as an individual decoration.
Civil History : --- Director of Personnel and General Sales Engineer, Ray Burner Company, San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 1929 to May 31, 1930 ; Vice President and Chief Engineer, Schwan Gas Burner Company, Dallas , Tex., June 1, 1930 to ---
Address : 1207 South Lamar St., Dallas, Tx.
1933 - Vice President Schwan Burner Co. of Dallas, Texas and manager of Brown and Bigalow . Lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
1942 --- Resided in Washington D. C., based on WW2 draft record
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WORLD WAR 1 CASUALTIES
OF AMERICAN ARMY OVERSEAS
Reported May 13, 1918
NEW YORK TIMES
Major Richard B. Paddock , Son of late General was stationed here until 1916
Major Richard B. Paddock of the regular army, who is reported slightly wounded in yesterday's casualty list, is a nephew of General Pershing and a West Pointer of the Class of 1914. Major Paddock, who is in the Signal Corps, is a native of Wyoming and is 27 years old. On June 15, 1914, three days after his graduation from West Point, he married Miss Anne Cunningham, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham of 40 Hamilton Place, this city. Mrs. Paddock , accompanied by her little son, Richard B. Paddock Jr., is now on her way to New York from California. She was notified by telegraph yesterday that her husband had been wounded, but was in no danger.
Major Paddock is the son of the late Brig. Gen, Paddock, who was one of the American officers killed in the advance on Peking in the Boxer uprising of 1900. His mother was a sister of General Pershing. She died in the early boyhood of Major Paddock, who was then taken charge of and reared by Miss May Pershing of Lincoln, Neb., General Pershing's sister. Miss Pershing is caring for little Warren Pershing, the only son of the American Commander in chief.
After his graduation from West Point, Major Paddock , then a Lieutenant of Artillery, was on duty in New York, and until 1916 was in charge of the Police Reserve Training Camp on Staten Island. When General Pershing was ordered to command the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916, the Lieutenant was relieved of that duty and went to the border to serve under his uncle. General Pershing later succeeded to the command of the Southern Department, with headquarters in San Antonio ; Major and Mrs. Paddock took a house in that city and General Pershing made his home with them.
NOTE: Major Paddock's Army career would end with the rank of Major after inappropriate relationships with another officer's wife. Apparently , this was with his second wife, as he did not resign until 1929. In all, he had four wives, which indicates he did love the ladies, all of them.
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FAMILY:
Father :--- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK SR. --- ( 1859 - 1901 ) was a United States Army officer, close friend and brother-in-law to John J. Pershing, and one of the few American officers who died while on duty in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Paddock served in the American Southwest during the Apache Wars , as well as the Pine Ridge Campaign ( 1890-91 ), the Battle of San Juan Hill ( 1898 ) in Cuba during the Spanish American War, and finally the China Relief Expedition ( 1900-01 ). Paddock served as a lieutenant and captain in the 13th Infantry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment, and the 6th Cavalry Regiment.
Still not recovered from attacks of malaria contracted in Cuba, Paddock developed severe pneumonia during strenuous march from Peking to Tientsen, China, during the Boxer Rebellion. He was hospitalized in serious condition March 2 and died March 9, 1901 in Tientsen. His remains were returned to Princeton, Illinois for a funeral and internment at Oakland Cemetery.
Mother: ---- GRACE PERSHING, ( 1867 - 1903 )---- At Fort Stanton in 1887, Paddock met Lt. John J. Pershing, a recent West Point graduate. Paddock, Pershing , and another young lieutenant, Julius Penn, became close friends and lived an idyllic frontier lifestyle of hunting, carousing and visits to Mexican dances. Paddock met Pershing's sister Grace while she was visiting Fort Stanton. They were married while Paddock was on leave in Chicago June 5, 1890. The families of Richard Paddock and John Pershing later lived close by in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
After her husbands death in 1901, Grace Pershing Paddock became very ill in 1903, bedridden with rheumatism. She died April 25, 1904 in Chicago.
Uncle : --- GENERAL JOHN J. " BLACK JACK " PERSHING ( 1860 - 1948 ) General of the American Army in World War One , charged up San Juan Hill with his black regiment, fought in the Indian Wars, his career is too storied to repeat here.
When his friend Captain Paddock died in 1901, and sister Grace Pershing Paddock passed away in 1904, he first took the couples two children May and Richard Jr. in and they were under his guardianship in Washington D. C. However, with Capt. Pershing's pending assignment to observe the Russo-Japanese War, Pershing's father John F. Pershing assumed guardianship of the children in Chicago, August 18, 1905. Richard Paddock Jr. and May Paddock spent considerable time under John J. and Helen Pershing's care during Pershing's command of American forces in the Philippines.
Sister :--- MAY PADDOCK ( 1892 - 1918 ) --- daughter of Captain Richard Bolles Paddock and Grace Pershing Paddock, and sister to Richard B. Paddock Jr. she married Frank Benjamin Tipton in 1914, and they made their home in Nebraska. She had one child, Frank B. Tipton III.
From the Grand Island Daily Independent, 1 November 1918
Lincoln, Neb., --Mrs. May Tipton , a niece of General John J. Pershing and a sister of Colonel Richard Paddock, a member of General Pershing's staff , died here today. death was due to blood poisoning. Mrs. Tipton's death occurred art the home of Mrs. D. M. Butler, a sister of General Pershing.
NOTE: Both General Pershing and Colonel Paddock were in France and thus unable to attend the funeral. Pershing was no stranger to tragedy, having lost his wife and three daughters to a fire in 1915.
WIFE # 1 : ANNE CUNNINGHAM ( 1894 - )--- Married 12 June 1914. The marriage later ended in divorce. They had the following child.
SON # 1 : --- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK III ( 31 March 1915 - August 14, 1966 ) --- born in New York City, worked as a physician in Houston , Texas. Passed away in Acapulco , Mexico, due to an accidental drowning, age 51. Survivor was Mrs. Rita L. Paddock. Married Margery Reid on 19 September 1938, not sure if the women are the same. First buried at " Panteon Municipal de las Cruces" cemetery in Acapulco, Mexico. He may still remain there as there is no listing in the United States. His wife applied for a military marker for his grave there.
WIFE # 2 : --- DORIS VAN JOHNSON, ( 19 Feb 1895 - 21 August 1955 ) Married on 20 September 1920. The marriage ended in divorce. They had the following child.
Son # 2 : --- JOHN PERSHING " JACK " PADDOCK ( 30 June 1921 - 19 July 1996 ), longtime resident of Palo Alto, died July 19. A native of Fort Sill, Okla,. he lived in the Philippines, Panama , and San Francisco as a child. He served in the U. S. Army as a paratrooper during World War Two and received a bachelor of arts and a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University. He taught mathematics at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey before becoming an electrical engineer for 24 years at NASA Ames Research Center, where he designed instruments to measure the ozone layer. He was recently the treasurer for the Barron Park Association and the Northern California Unitarian Universalist Camps and Conferences. as a graduate of the Palo Alto Police Department's first Citizen's Police Academy and an amateur radio operator, he was appointed a Santa Clara County Radio Officer. He is survived by his wife, Marty Paddock of Palo Alto; three sons , Randall Paddock of San Diego, Richard C. Paddock of Berkeley, and John Pershing Paddock Jr. of San Francisco ; one daughter , Caroline Paddock of Berkeley ; and two grandsons.
Wife # 3 : --- ALICE EVELYN WARWICK ( 4 Feb 1904 -- 13 Feb 1984 ) Married 31 December 1931.
Wife # 4 : --- KATHRYN A. WHARFF, Married 17 May 1950 in San Diego, California . She was 55 at the time.
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1900
Fort Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Kansas
Sheet # 1
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Male, 40, Head, Illinois
SCOTT WOOD, Male, 27, Sergeant
GRACE R. PADDOCK, Female, 31, Wife, Missouri
CHARLES STONE, Male, 30, Corporal
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, 9, Son, Wyoming
WILLIAM C. WENDROW, Male, 33, Corporal
MAY PADDOCK, Female, 7, Daughter, Missouri
JOHN HUDDLESTON, Male, 30, Corporal
BENJAMIN EVERETT, Male, 13, Servant, New York
JOHN TEGMUIR, Male, 32, Corporal
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1910
Lincoln
Lancaster
Nebraska
Sheet # 8B
MARY E. BUTLER, Head, Female, 45, Missouri
MAY PERSHING, Sister, Female, 39, Missouri
MAY PADDOCK, Niece, Female, 17, Missouri
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Nephew, Male, 19, Missouri
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U. S CENSUS --1910
Highland
Orange
New York
Sheet # 5B
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, Single, White, 18, Wyoming
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U. S. CENSUS - 1920
New York City
New York
Sheet # 9A
ANNE PADDOCK, Head, Female, 34, New York
RICHARD PADDOCK JR., Son, Male, 4, New York
NOTE: Major Paddock had divorced Anne Paddock by 1920.
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U. S. CENSUS --1940
Evanston
Cook
Illinois
Sheet # 66A
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Head, Male, 49, Wyoming
ALICE PADDOCK, Wife, Female, 35, Tennessee
LOUISE HOLMES, MaId, Female, 42, Tennessee
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Major Richard Paddock passed away in 1952 from Coronary Sclerosis. Woodlawn Cemetery in Los Angeles handled the funeral arrangements , and his body was cremated.
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Researched and transcribed by
ED CATTERSON
[email protected]
3/5/2021
USMA CLASS OF 1914
CULLUM'S REGISTER # 5261
NEPHEW OF GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING
MEXICAN PUNITIVE EXPEDITION - 1917
WORLD WAR ONE VETERAN
GEN. PERSHING STAFF IN FRANCE - 1918
LT. COL. SIGNAL CORPS , A. E. F.
DIVISION SIGNAL OFFICER, 15TH DIV. , 1918-19
AWARDED CROIX DE GUERRE OF FRANCE
MAJOR, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY - 1923
ASST. CHIEF OF STAFF, G-1, PHILIPPINES , 1927-29
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5261. ( Born Wyo. ). RICHARD B. PADDOCK. ( Ap'd at Large ). 56
( Richard Bolles Paddock, Born April 16, 1891 )
Military History. --- Cadet at the Military Academy , March 1, 1910 to June 12, 1914, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
( ADDITIONAL SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS )
( SECOND LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 23, 1914 )
Served: At Fort Wentworth, N. Y., with company, Sept. 12, 1914 to
( FIRST LIEUT., COAST ARTILLERY CORPS, JULY 1, 1916 )
July 20, 1916 ; at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Post Signal Officer, to May 17, 1917 ; sailed to France on Staff of Chief Signal Officer, A. E. F. , May 28, 1917 ; at General Hdqrs. , A. E. F.., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to
( CAPTAIN, COZAST ARTILLERY CORPS, July 25, 1917 )
( MAJOR, TEMPORARY , SIGNAL CORPS, Nov. 9, 1917 )
February 1918;
( SIGNAL CORPS, BY DETAIL, FEB. 10, 1918 )
with 1st Division, commanding 2nd Field Signal Battalion ; Acting Division Signal Officer and Signal Officer to Aug. 28 ; wounded May 1 and again July 25 ; en route to U. S. , Sept. 6 ; at Washington D. C., student officer at Army War College, October 1918.
( LIEUT.-COLONEL, SIGNAL CORPS, U. S. A., OCT 11, 1918 )
Division Signal Officer, 15th Division, to February, 1919 ; at Washington D. C., in office of Chief Signal Officer, to October 1919 ; at Signal Corps School, Camp Alfred Vail, N. J., October, 1919, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, MAY 10, 1920 )
( TRANSFERRED TO FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1920 )
( RELEIVED SIGNAL CORPS, SEPT. 30, 1920 )
Oct. 20, 1920 ; at Camp Dix, N. J., with the 6th Field Artillery, Oct. 20, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1920 ; at Fort Sill, Okla., student officer, Battery Commanders Course, Field Artillery School, to June 30, 1921, when he was graduated ; Instructor, to
( RETURNED TO GRADE OF CAPTAIN, DEC. 18, 1922 )
( MAJOR OF FIELD ARTILLERY, JAN. 29, 1923 )
June 15, 1925 ; on leave of absence to Aug. 27, 1925 ; at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., student officer , Command and General Staff School, Aug. 29, 1925 to June 19, 1926 ; on leave of absence to July 19, 1926 ; at Camp Lewis, Wash., commanding a battalion of the 10th Field Artillery, July 23, 1926, to Jan. 1, 1927 ; en route to the Philippine Islands, to Feb. 9, 1927 ; at camp Stotsenburg, P. I., commanding a battalion of the 24th Field Artillery, Feb. 9, 1927, to July 1, 1927 ; at fort William McKinley, P. I., Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, Philippine Division, July 12, 1927, to ( Acting Chief of Staff, July 1, 1928 to Oct. 20, 1928 ) Jan 21, 1929 ; at Fort William McKinley, P. I., to Apr. 10, 1929 ; en route to the United States to May 7, 1929.
( RESIGNED, MAY 14, 1929 )
Awarded French Croix de Guerre ; authorized to wear the French Fourragere as an individual decoration.
Civil History : --- Director of Personnel and General Sales Engineer, Ray Burner Company, San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 1929 to May 31, 1930 ; Vice President and Chief Engineer, Schwan Gas Burner Company, Dallas , Tex., June 1, 1930 to ---
Address : 1207 South Lamar St., Dallas, Tx.
1933 - Vice President Schwan Burner Co. of Dallas, Texas and manager of Brown and Bigalow . Lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
1942 --- Resided in Washington D. C., based on WW2 draft record
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WORLD WAR 1 CASUALTIES
OF AMERICAN ARMY OVERSEAS
Reported May 13, 1918
NEW YORK TIMES
Major Richard B. Paddock , Son of late General was stationed here until 1916
Major Richard B. Paddock of the regular army, who is reported slightly wounded in yesterday's casualty list, is a nephew of General Pershing and a West Pointer of the Class of 1914. Major Paddock, who is in the Signal Corps, is a native of Wyoming and is 27 years old. On June 15, 1914, three days after his graduation from West Point, he married Miss Anne Cunningham, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham of 40 Hamilton Place, this city. Mrs. Paddock , accompanied by her little son, Richard B. Paddock Jr., is now on her way to New York from California. She was notified by telegraph yesterday that her husband had been wounded, but was in no danger.
Major Paddock is the son of the late Brig. Gen, Paddock, who was one of the American officers killed in the advance on Peking in the Boxer uprising of 1900. His mother was a sister of General Pershing. She died in the early boyhood of Major Paddock, who was then taken charge of and reared by Miss May Pershing of Lincoln, Neb., General Pershing's sister. Miss Pershing is caring for little Warren Pershing, the only son of the American Commander in chief.
After his graduation from West Point, Major Paddock , then a Lieutenant of Artillery, was on duty in New York, and until 1916 was in charge of the Police Reserve Training Camp on Staten Island. When General Pershing was ordered to command the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916, the Lieutenant was relieved of that duty and went to the border to serve under his uncle. General Pershing later succeeded to the command of the Southern Department, with headquarters in San Antonio ; Major and Mrs. Paddock took a house in that city and General Pershing made his home with them.
NOTE: Major Paddock's Army career would end with the rank of Major after inappropriate relationships with another officer's wife. Apparently , this was with his second wife, as he did not resign until 1929. In all, he had four wives, which indicates he did love the ladies, all of them.
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FAMILY:
Father :--- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK SR. --- ( 1859 - 1901 ) was a United States Army officer, close friend and brother-in-law to John J. Pershing, and one of the few American officers who died while on duty in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Paddock served in the American Southwest during the Apache Wars , as well as the Pine Ridge Campaign ( 1890-91 ), the Battle of San Juan Hill ( 1898 ) in Cuba during the Spanish American War, and finally the China Relief Expedition ( 1900-01 ). Paddock served as a lieutenant and captain in the 13th Infantry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment, and the 6th Cavalry Regiment.
Still not recovered from attacks of malaria contracted in Cuba, Paddock developed severe pneumonia during strenuous march from Peking to Tientsen, China, during the Boxer Rebellion. He was hospitalized in serious condition March 2 and died March 9, 1901 in Tientsen. His remains were returned to Princeton, Illinois for a funeral and internment at Oakland Cemetery.
Mother: ---- GRACE PERSHING, ( 1867 - 1903 )---- At Fort Stanton in 1887, Paddock met Lt. John J. Pershing, a recent West Point graduate. Paddock, Pershing , and another young lieutenant, Julius Penn, became close friends and lived an idyllic frontier lifestyle of hunting, carousing and visits to Mexican dances. Paddock met Pershing's sister Grace while she was visiting Fort Stanton. They were married while Paddock was on leave in Chicago June 5, 1890. The families of Richard Paddock and John Pershing later lived close by in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
After her husbands death in 1901, Grace Pershing Paddock became very ill in 1903, bedridden with rheumatism. She died April 25, 1904 in Chicago.
Uncle : --- GENERAL JOHN J. " BLACK JACK " PERSHING ( 1860 - 1948 ) General of the American Army in World War One , charged up San Juan Hill with his black regiment, fought in the Indian Wars, his career is too storied to repeat here.
When his friend Captain Paddock died in 1901, and sister Grace Pershing Paddock passed away in 1904, he first took the couples two children May and Richard Jr. in and they were under his guardianship in Washington D. C. However, with Capt. Pershing's pending assignment to observe the Russo-Japanese War, Pershing's father John F. Pershing assumed guardianship of the children in Chicago, August 18, 1905. Richard Paddock Jr. and May Paddock spent considerable time under John J. and Helen Pershing's care during Pershing's command of American forces in the Philippines.
Sister :--- MAY PADDOCK ( 1892 - 1918 ) --- daughter of Captain Richard Bolles Paddock and Grace Pershing Paddock, and sister to Richard B. Paddock Jr. she married Frank Benjamin Tipton in 1914, and they made their home in Nebraska. She had one child, Frank B. Tipton III.
From the Grand Island Daily Independent, 1 November 1918
Lincoln, Neb., --Mrs. May Tipton , a niece of General John J. Pershing and a sister of Colonel Richard Paddock, a member of General Pershing's staff , died here today. death was due to blood poisoning. Mrs. Tipton's death occurred art the home of Mrs. D. M. Butler, a sister of General Pershing.
NOTE: Both General Pershing and Colonel Paddock were in France and thus unable to attend the funeral. Pershing was no stranger to tragedy, having lost his wife and three daughters to a fire in 1915.
WIFE # 1 : ANNE CUNNINGHAM ( 1894 - )--- Married 12 June 1914. The marriage later ended in divorce. They had the following child.
SON # 1 : --- RICHARD BOLLES PADDOCK III ( 31 March 1915 - August 14, 1966 ) --- born in New York City, worked as a physician in Houston , Texas. Passed away in Acapulco , Mexico, due to an accidental drowning, age 51. Survivor was Mrs. Rita L. Paddock. Married Margery Reid on 19 September 1938, not sure if the women are the same. First buried at " Panteon Municipal de las Cruces" cemetery in Acapulco, Mexico. He may still remain there as there is no listing in the United States. His wife applied for a military marker for his grave there.
WIFE # 2 : --- DORIS VAN JOHNSON, ( 19 Feb 1895 - 21 August 1955 ) Married on 20 September 1920. The marriage ended in divorce. They had the following child.
Son # 2 : --- JOHN PERSHING " JACK " PADDOCK ( 30 June 1921 - 19 July 1996 ), longtime resident of Palo Alto, died July 19. A native of Fort Sill, Okla,. he lived in the Philippines, Panama , and San Francisco as a child. He served in the U. S. Army as a paratrooper during World War Two and received a bachelor of arts and a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University. He taught mathematics at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey before becoming an electrical engineer for 24 years at NASA Ames Research Center, where he designed instruments to measure the ozone layer. He was recently the treasurer for the Barron Park Association and the Northern California Unitarian Universalist Camps and Conferences. as a graduate of the Palo Alto Police Department's first Citizen's Police Academy and an amateur radio operator, he was appointed a Santa Clara County Radio Officer. He is survived by his wife, Marty Paddock of Palo Alto; three sons , Randall Paddock of San Diego, Richard C. Paddock of Berkeley, and John Pershing Paddock Jr. of San Francisco ; one daughter , Caroline Paddock of Berkeley ; and two grandsons.
Wife # 3 : --- ALICE EVELYN WARWICK ( 4 Feb 1904 -- 13 Feb 1984 ) Married 31 December 1931.
Wife # 4 : --- KATHRYN A. WHARFF, Married 17 May 1950 in San Diego, California . She was 55 at the time.
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1900
Fort Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Kansas
Sheet # 1
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Male, 40, Head, Illinois
SCOTT WOOD, Male, 27, Sergeant
GRACE R. PADDOCK, Female, 31, Wife, Missouri
CHARLES STONE, Male, 30, Corporal
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, 9, Son, Wyoming
WILLIAM C. WENDROW, Male, 33, Corporal
MAY PADDOCK, Female, 7, Daughter, Missouri
JOHN HUDDLESTON, Male, 30, Corporal
BENJAMIN EVERETT, Male, 13, Servant, New York
JOHN TEGMUIR, Male, 32, Corporal
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U. S. CENSUS -- 1910
Lincoln
Lancaster
Nebraska
Sheet # 8B
MARY E. BUTLER, Head, Female, 45, Missouri
MAY PERSHING, Sister, Female, 39, Missouri
MAY PADDOCK, Niece, Female, 17, Missouri
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Nephew, Male, 19, Missouri
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U. S CENSUS --1910
Highland
Orange
New York
Sheet # 5B
RICHARD B. PADDOCK JR., Male, Single, White, 18, Wyoming
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U. S. CENSUS - 1920
New York City
New York
Sheet # 9A
ANNE PADDOCK, Head, Female, 34, New York
RICHARD PADDOCK JR., Son, Male, 4, New York
NOTE: Major Paddock had divorced Anne Paddock by 1920.
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U. S. CENSUS --1940
Evanston
Cook
Illinois
Sheet # 66A
RICHARD B. PADDOCK, Head, Male, 49, Wyoming
ALICE PADDOCK, Wife, Female, 35, Tennessee
LOUISE HOLMES, MaId, Female, 42, Tennessee
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Major Richard Paddock passed away in 1952 from Coronary Sclerosis. Woodlawn Cemetery in Los Angeles handled the funeral arrangements , and his body was cremated.
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Researched and transcribed by
ED CATTERSON
[email protected]
3/5/2021
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