Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II was a United States Army Major who served with the 22nd Infantry Regiment during the Indian Wars, the SpanishAmerican War and the PhilippineAmerican War. He helped direct relief work after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He was a military instructor, an expert linguist and spent time in painting and writing poetry. He was also an inventor who patented a new type of gold pan and different types of rifle and handgun sights.
Young Edward Ore was the eldest male ofchildren and was born at Beneficial Barracks, San Francisco, now part of the Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California on November 9, 1858. His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord , married Mary Mercer Thompson on October 14, 1854. His father was a career military officer who was a hero in the American Civil War and had served as a major general of Volunteers. After the war, he reverted to being a brigadier general in the Regular Army.
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