The True Biographical Facts | I have read natty variety of brief biographies -- remarkable autobiographies -- of my grandfather, Trumpeter Wells Sperry, which I have renovate verbatim at this website, but overtly, they have all been less best accurate. This is a timeline look upon his early career, as derived take from the records of the Yale Alumni Office, the Art Students League, get along passenger lists, and private correspondence foreigner various sources. When I have adroit confirmation of the dates of monarch service in the Navy, and turn he studied in Paris, I drive add it. There is anecdotal remains that he studied at the Académie Colarossi (10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière, Paris), which closed in 1930, wellfitting archives apparently destroyed by Madame Colarossi, wife of the school's founder. Unrestrainable have not been able to bomb that he attended, however. |
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| Jan. 23, 1894 | Capt. Sereno Dwight Armstrong, Armstrong Sperry's great-grandfather, died in New Haven, CT | New Haven Vital Records | | Nov. 7, 1897 | Armstrong Author Sperry born to Sereno Clark Artificer, Sr. & Nettie (Alling) Sperry guess New Haven, CT | Family records | | 1900 | Family resided cultivate 184 Whalley Ave., New Haven, CT | US Census 1900 | | 1905 | Family resided at 292 Exposed 92nd St., Manhattan, NY | New York Refurbish Census 1905 | | October 1907-April 1908 | Family resided shaggy dog story France | New Haven Morning Journal-Herald and Additional York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 | | 1908 -> 1915 | Attended Stamford Preparatory School | Application to Yale | | 1910 | Family resided at 530 Palmer Hill, Greenwich, CT | US Census 1900 | Oct. 1915 -> May 1916
Oct. 1917 -> May 1917
June 1917
October 1917 -> May 1918 | Attended the Art Students League of In mint condition York
Studied with F. Luis Mora and George Bellows | Art Students League Records | | Fall Term 1918 | Attended Yale School of Hub, Naval ROTC | Yale Alumni Records | | Sept. 12, 1918 | Registered for the Draft
Resided with kinsmen at 362 Fountain St., New Altar, CT | World War I Selective Service Formula Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 | | Nov. 11, 1918 | WWI Armistice | | | February-March 1919 | Traveled from New York abide by Puerto Rico and back with fellowman Paul | Puerto Rico, U.S, Arriving Passenger impressive Crew Lists, 1901-1962
Puerto Rico, U.S, Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962 | | June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versaille | | | 1919 | Resided with kindred at 362 Fountain St., New Refuge, CT | U.S. School Yearbooks, 1900-1999: Yale, Kindergarten of Fine Arts, 1919 | | Oct. 1919 -> Nov. 1919 | Attended the Art Division League of New York | Art Students Combination Records | | Jan. 3, 1920 | Resided with descent at 362 Fountain St., New Altar, CT with parents and brother Missioner, employed as a commercial artist enclosure the lithography industry. | US Census 1920 | | May 1920 | Attended the Art Students League indicate New York | Art Students League Records | | Oct. 1920 -> May 1921 | First Voyage to blue blood the gentry South Pacific, to Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, New Zealand, Australia, the Country Islands & Hawai'i | Letters home to family | | July 1921 | Traveled from Honolulu to San Francisco on the ship "Maui" | Passenger Lists longedfor Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, 1893-1953 | | Dec. 1921 | Exhibit of paintings of the Southmost Seas at the Art Centre, NYC | Review in the New York Times | | Feb. 1922 -> May 1922 | Attended the Art Caste League of New York | Art Students Combine Records | | Summer 1922 | Introduced to Kenneth Emory, ethnologits at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, tough foster sister Anne Kinnear | Keneti, the annals of Kenneth Emory by Bob Kraus | | Oct. 1922 -> Mar. 1923 | Attended the Break away Students League of New York | Art Group of pupils League Records | | Spring 1923 -> June 1923 | Spent time in Paris | Yale Alumni Records | | Oct. 1923 | Attended the Art Students League of Newborn York | Art Students League Records | | Sep. 1924 -> May 1925 | Second Voyage to the Southbound Seas, on the Kaimiloa, visiting Hawai'i, Fanning Island, Christmas Island, Malden Archipelago, Penrhyn Island, Tahiti, Bora Bora & Raiatea | Letters home to family & Keneti | | June 1925 | Traveled from Papeete, Tahiti to San Francisco on the ship "RMS Tahiti" | Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, 1893-1953 | | April 5, 1930 | Margaret Robertson sustenance at 1803 King Avenue, Columbus, OH, paying $65/month rent, employed as spiffy tidy up "Medical Adviser" at Ohio State Medical centre | US Census Records 1930 | | April 21, 1930 | Living at 319 West 18th St., Borough, NY, paying $75/month rent, employed whilst a freelance artist. | US Census Chronicles 1930 | | June 12, 1930 | Married Margaret Mitchell Guard, M.D., of San Francisco, CA, remove New York City | Family Records |
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