Captain franklin van valkenburgh biography of mahatma
Van valkenburgh, franklin - nhhc.
Franklin Van Valkenburgh was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 5, 1888.
Captain franklin van valkenburgh biography of mahatma
Along with his older sister Helen, the Van Valkenburgh family moved to the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, along the shores of Lake Michigan, when he was a young child.
Franklin’s father, Franklin Pratt Van Valkenburgh, was a prominent lawyer who served as an assistant city attorney in Milwaukee and later as a U.S.
attorney for the state of Wisconsin. He and his wife Jane (Swoop) Van Valkenburgh sent the children to Milwaukee’s Cass Elementary School, and later to East Side High School.
At age 17, the younger Franklin Van Valkenburgh received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Arriving there in 1905, Van Valkenburgh graduated with the class of 1909.
In what would become a three-decade Navy career, Van Valkenburgh’s assignments include serving on the USS Vermont (BB-20), USS South Carolina (BB-26), and USS Rainbow (AS-7) of the Asiatic Fleet.
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