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Register of the Harry Pence Papers
MSS 144
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Description
Papers of Captain Harry Langley Pence, U.S. Naval Academy graduate (1906), career United States Navy officer (1902-1945),
and Red Cross administrator (1945-1946). The papers contain communiques, typescripts, correspondence, diaries, memorabilia,
memorandums, orders, photographs, reports, reprints, and scrapbooks.
Background
Harry Langley Pence was born on September 23, 1882, in Sardina, Ohio. Pence graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1901,
attended the Ohio State University (1901-1902) and graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor of science
degree in 1906.
Extent
14.6 Linear feet
(29 archive boxes and 35 oversized folders)
Restrictions
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.