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Frederic Courtland Penfield

Diplomat. Journalist. Russell Military School [1]. (Founded by William Huntingdon Russell, co-founder of Skull and Bones S&B1833). Princeton[1]. and later studied in England and Germany.

Diplmat for 37 Years.[1]

Member of the Century Club, the Princeton Club and the National Democratic Club. He also belonged to the Author’s Club, New York Yacht Club, the Sleepy Hollow Country Club of New York and the Metropolitan Club of Washington.[1]

1914 - Received the degree of LI.D at Hobart College, at New York University in 1917, and the University of Pennsylvania in 1917, also the degree of L. H. D. at the Catholic University of American in 1915.

FYI - 28 Jun 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were Assassinated in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

During the period of American neutrality (1914-1917) he took care of the interests in Austria-Hungary of several of the belligerents.[7]

28 Jul 1913 to 7 Apr 1917 - United States Minister to Austria by President Woodrow Wilson (Edward M. House - Alpha Delta Phi, with Rockfeller, S&B and Rhodes connections)

Preceded by Richard C. Kerens. Succeeded by Arthur Hugh Frazier.

1911 - Pope Pius X, honoured Mr Penfield with the Cross of St. Gregory. He was the first American to receive the highest class of this order.

1908 - Married Anne Weightman Walker of Philadelphia, reputed to be one of the wealthiest women in the world.[1] (Her previous husband died 19 Dec 1903, aged 65. Owned and edited the Saturday Evening Post. Elected Republican 1881 to 1883, 16th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.)

1904 - Received the Cross of the Legion of Honor, in recognition “of his prominence in discussing the relative merits of canal routes, leading to the American Government pushing from a French company all the rights at Panama.”[1]

1898 - Officer of the French Academy, when he was awarded the decoration of “Pames Academiques” by the French Government.[1]

1897 - The sultan of Turkey awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Medjihieh, and the Khedive of Egypt, made him Grand Commander in the Order of Osmanieh.[1]

13 May 1893 to 17 Jun 1897 - United States Diplomatic Agent to Egypt by President Grover Cleveland.

Preceded by Edward C. Little. Succeeded by Thomas Harrison

1892 to 1905 - Married Katherine Albert McMurdo Welles (died), daughter of Albert Wells.[1]

1886 - Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.[1]

1885 - United States Vice Consul in London.[1]

Worked for the Hartford Courant Newspaper.[1]

Studied in England and Germany.

Russell Military School (Founded by co-founder of Skull and Bones, William Huntingdon Russell S&B 1832)

Died 19 Jun 1922, from congestion of the brain. Age 67. Born 23 Apr 1855.

Father … Daniel Penfield married Mary Fellows (born September 10, 1762), daughter of John and Mary Ashley Fellows. General Fellows served as an aide-de-camp to George Washington.

[1] - F.C. PENFIELD DEAD AT HIS HOME HERE. Ex-Ambassador to Austria Had Been Ill With Congestion of the Brain. DIPLOMAT FOR 37 YEARS Born in Connecticut 68 Years Ago and Was for Some Time on The Hartford Courant. Sent to Austria in 1913. Known as Traveler and Writer. Recipient of Many Degrees.

[2] - FYI - Wiki - Frederic Courtland Penfield

[3] - Frederic Courtland Penfield: Last and Undervalued US Minister to Habsburg Vienna in Crisis

[4] - FYI - Wiki - Russell Military Academy

[5] - Find a Grave - Frederic Courtland Penfield

[6] - Father, Daniel Penfield

[7] - Wiki Source - Sketch, Frederic Courtland Penfield

[8] - Find a Grave - John Fellows

[9] - Book - The first of men : a life of George Washington by Ferling, John E 1988

[10] - Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon - The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand - Explanation