Peyton C. March

Peyton Conway March was an American soldier and Army Chief of Staff. He is largely responsible for the designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the 20th century.

He married Josephine Cunningham , the widowed daughter of his battery commander, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Smith, on July 4, 1891. She died in November 1904, while March was still observing the Imperial Japanese Army. BetweenNovember 1917 andJune 1918, their daughters Mildred , Josephine and Vivian had all married Army officers. Josephine had a twin brother, named Peyton Jr. who died ten days after their birth. Marchs second son, also named Peyton, Jr., was killed in a plane crash in Texas during World War I. March AFB in Riverside, California was named in young Marchs honor. A third son, Lewis Alden March, was born in 1904 and died in 1928.

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