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Helen Frances “Frankie”. Warren. Pershing. Wife of Gen. Black Jack John J. Pershing and daughter of Sen./Gov./Cabinet Member Francis Warren. Tragically killed with 3 of Pershing's 4 children in a San Francisco fire.
During his next assignment in Washington, Captain Pershing met Helen Frances Warren, a recent graduate of Wellesley College and daughter of United States Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming. Though twenty years her senior, Pershing charmed Miss Warren.
Frances Warren Pershing, wife of Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, U.S.A., and three of her four children -- Mary, 6, Anne, 7, and Helen, 8 years old -- were suffocated in a fire in their quarters...
Also in 1905, Pershing married Helen Frances Warren, the daughter of powerful U.S. Senator Francis E. Warren, a Wyoming Republican who served at different times as chairman of the Military Affairs and Appropriations Committees.
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- General of the Armies
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Pershing was born *September 13, 1860, in Laclede, Missouri, where his pro-Union father managed a general store. The family survived the Civil War but was financially ruined in the depression of 1873. Young John worked on the family farm and, at age seventeen, began teaching at the local African American school. He enrolled in the State Normal Scho...
During his next assignmentin Washington, Captain Pershing met Helen Frances Warren, a recent graduate of Wellesley College and daughter of United States Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming. Though twenty years her senior, Pershing charmed Miss Warren. In describing a social gathering, she wrote, "Danced every dance but one, and have lost my heart ...
When the United Statesentered World War I in 1917, Pershing was given the command of the American Expeditionary Force. This was not a good time for a war for the Army. There were limited supplies, no aircraft for an army still struggling with recruitment and organization. There was a diplomatic mountain to scale as well: the French and the British ...
Pershing returned to Washington in late 1903. He was introduced to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of an influential Wyoming Senator. This began a passionate and brief courtship that lasted until Pershing was assigned to serve as an observer of the Russo-Japanese War.
Sep 15, 2022 · In 1905, Pershing married Helen Frances Warren, the daughter of powerful U.S. Senator Francis E. Warren, a Wyoming Republican. By Helen, he fathered four children: Helen, Anne, Warren, and Mary Margaret. On August 27, 1915, his wife and three daughters were killed in a fire incident at their home at the Presidio in San Francisco.
