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Show GEN. BARRY SUCCEEDS GRANT 1 i Maj. Gen. Thomas 11. Harry, U. S. A., superintendent of the L'n:tci1 'l States Military Academy at Wt-st Point, has been appointed command-er command-er of the Eastern division of the army with headquarters on Governor's island, is-land, as successor of the late Gen F D. Grant. General Barry's tour of duty at Wert Point still had more than two years to run, but the fact that ho has" long been known aa one of the olllccrs to whom active command of troops particularly par-ticularly appeals makes it quite certain cer-tain that ho welcomes the command. General Barry waa born in New York city, and may be termed "a typical typi-cal product of New York city." Ho was horn and reared in the old First ward, and there are men in that city with whom he played and fought as a boy, who still love to tell stories of General Barry's boyhood. In July, 1S73, Barry entered West Point. He graduated in 1S77, and was assigned as a second lieutenant to the Seventh cavalry, Custer's old command. After three years in the Seventh cavalry he was transferred to the First Y Infantry. , In the Pine Ridge campaign in 1891 Barry was promoted to a captaincy. In August, 1903, President Roosevelt sent Geueral Barry's name to the senato for confirmation as a brigadier general. In 1907 General Barry was sent to Cuba as commander of the American troops in the cecond occupation o the island. On September 1, 1910, General Barry succeeded Col. Hugh L. Scott, of the Third cavalry, as superintendent of West Point. |