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Kurt von Goessel (20 February 1852 – 30 January 1895 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia; died January 30, 1895 at sea) was a German ship's captain in the German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd. He gained notoriety posthumously when he and nearly all of the passengers and crew went down with his ship.

Biography
Goessel was born 20 February 1852 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia. He married Louise Anna Christina Müller on 9 September 1874 in Hanover.

Career
On January 30, 1895, the Elbe–a 4,510 gross ton passenger ship in the Norddeutscher Lloyd company–ran on a collision course with the coal steamer Crathie on its liner voyage from Bremerhaven to New York and sank. Of the 352 (or possibly 394) passengers and crew, only 22 people in the single lifeboat survived the disaster.

Early life and education
Clarkson was born April 26, 1840 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Michael Cooke (1800 – 1871) and Louisa Clarkson (née Harper) (1805 – 1875). He was educated at St. James College in Hagerstown, Maryland. He moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois in 1857. In 1862, Clarkson married Mary Beecher Matteson; they had five children. In 1833, Clarkson's father, an enterprising Gettysburg businessman, purchased a tract of land along the Chambersburg Pike, and built a stone house that in 1863 was used as headquarters of General Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Gettysburg. Clarkson's father found himself in financial difficulty and the house was sold at a sheriff's auction in 1846 to Thaddeus Stevens. Michael Clarkson and Stevens were close friends and Stevens wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln on February 9, 1863 recommending a commission for Thaddeus to a commission in the Regular Army; the commission was apparently never granted as Thaddeus remained an officer in the volunteer service.

Military career
On April 16, 1861, Clarkson enlisted at Chicago as a private in Smith's Independent Illinois Light Artillery. He was promoted to corporal on May 2, 1861 and to sergeant on July 16, 1861; he mustered out with the battery on the same date. The battery was reorganized and he reenlisted the same day as a private in Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery and mustered out November 27, 1861 at Pilot Knob, Missouri.

Clarkson subsequently transferred to the 13th Illinois Cavalry on December 31, 1861, to accept a commission as a first lieutenant, where he was assigned to serve as adjutant for the regiment. Clarkson was then appointed to the staff of Brig. Gen. John W. Davidson. He rose through the ranks and was promoted to major on December 14, 1863, the same day that he was mustered out of the regiment. The following day, he began service with the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, a regiment he helped raise and commanded until the end of the war. He mustered out of the service on September 10, 1864.

Post-war
In March 1866 Clarkson settled in Nebraska with his family and became postmaster in Omaha. He became active with the G.A.R., serving as Commander of the Department of Nebraska in 1890, Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief of the G.A.R. in 1892, and finally as Commander-in-Chief of the G.A.R., 1896-1897. He was elected May 23, 1898 as general manager of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition.

Clarkson died January 16, 1915 in Newberg, Oregon. He is buried in Omaha at Prospect Hill Cemetery, where his headstone is missing.

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Aldo Finzi He was born in a Mantuan family of Jewish origin, traditionally involved in the world of classical music: an aunt, the sister of his father was the soprano Giuseppina Finzi Magrini.

After graduating from the Parini high school in Milan, he obtained a degree in law from the University of Pavia. At the same time he received his diploma in composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He quickly became successful and became famous among young Italian musicians. His works include operas, chamber music, symphonic music, the comic opera La serenata al vento and the incomplete drama Shylok, inspired by anti-Semitic persecution.

At the age of 24 he had become one of the authors of which Ricordi published the works, after having Fantuzzi and Sonzogno as publishers.

In the Ricordi catalog of 1931, among his works are mentioned: "The cloister" for female voices and orchestra, the symphonic poems "Cirano di Bergerac" and "Inni alla notte", a "Sonata for violin", a "String Quartet" "and other operas, as well as a joyful comedy in three acts," La serenata al vento ".

Among the most important works of the following years, we can mention "L'infinito", a symphonic poem from 1933, "Interludio", concert for piano and orchestra from 1934, "Numquam", a symphonic piano poem from 1937.

In 1937 the Teatro alla Scala announced a competition for a new opera to be performed the following season. Finzi participated with "La serenata al vento". One of the jury members, Riccardo Pick Mangiagalli, revealed his victory to the young composer. However, the official announcement, which was expected in the spring of 1938, never came.

The disappointment for Aldo Finzi was profound; the jury's decision could only have been blocked by a government veto, which meant the imminence of a racial campaign in Italy. Fascist racial laws came in fact a few months later and Finzi was deprived of the right to have their music performed.

His artistic vein remained nonetheless intact. In 1939 he wrote a symphonic poem whose title, taken from a verse from Dante, was assigned by a sister of Finzi: "Like his last artist". In 1940 he composed "Danza", a concert for two pianos, saxophone and orchestra. In 1942 it was the turn of "Shylok", a dramatic opera based on a libretto by Rossato: in this work the author centered the action on Shylok's plans against the persecution of his people of which he was a victim. Only the first act was put into music. Finzi later wrote the rhythmic text of the other two acts, which however did not have time to put to music.

In order to survive, he was forced to work in anonymity or under a nominee. His was the rhythmic translation of César Franck's "Beatitudes" in Italy, which circulates under another name. In 1944 he wrote "Prelude e fuga per organo" composed during the Nazi occupation of Turin, where the author had refused. Following a complaint the Italian SS found the house where the son of the composer had hidden. To avoid the search of the house and the capture of his son, the teacher spontaneously surrendered to the SS, but he managed to bribe them and was released.

Between 1944 and 1945 he composed the "Psalm for choir and orchestra" to thank God for having saved his son and himself and for expressing the certainty of divine protection. The psalm glorifies the goodness of the Lord.

He died on 7 February 1945 and was buried under a false name. His wife had to wait for the post-war period and the end of a trial to transfer his remains to the family tomb at the Monumental Cemetery in Milan.

On 1 December 2012, his opera "La serenata al vento" was performed for the first time at the Teatro Gaetano Donizetti in Bergamo.

Felix Xerxes Gygax (March 30, 1884 – February 24, 1977), was an United States Navy rear admiral. He retired from the Navy in 1946.

Early life
Gygax was born in Osborne County Kansas, on March 30, 1884, to __________________ Sibella "Sibbie" Lambert Kimmel (1846–1919) and Major Manning Marius Kimmel (1832–1916), a veteran of Confederate States Army duty during the American Civil War. He married Dorothy Kinkaid (1890–1975), sister of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, with whom he had three sons: Manning,Thomas K.Kimmel and Edward R.Kimmel.

Naval career
Gygax: graduated in 1904 from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. From 1906 to 1907 he served on several battleships in the Caribbean. In 1907 he was assigned to the USS Georgia during its participation in the circumnavigatory cruise of the Great White Fleet. Kimmel then served in the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, during which he was wounded in April 1914.

In 1915 he was appointed as an aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. During World War One Kimmel served as a squadron gunnery officer in the US Sixth Battle Squadron. After the war he served as Executive Officer aboard the USS Arkansas, then in Washington D.C. and the Philippines, as well as commanding two destroyer divisions before attaining the rank of Captain in 1926 upon completion of the senior course at the Naval War College.

From 1926 to 1937 Kimmel held a number of positions in the Navy Department as well as the commands of a Destroyer squadron and of the USS New York (BB-34).

In 1937 he was promoted to the flag rank of rear admiral. In this capacity he commanded Cruiser Division Seven on a diplomatic cruise to South America and in 1939 became Commander of Battle Force Cruisers.

In January 1941 Kimmel began duties as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet with a brevet rank of admiral. In this role he earned a reputation for attention to detail, if sometimes at the expense of larger structural planning.

Kimmel retired early in 1942, and worked for the military contractor Frederic R. Harris, Inc. after the war. Kimmel died at Groton, Connecticut, on May 14, 1968.

His son, Manning, died after the submarine he commanded (USS Robalo (SS-273)) was sunk near Palawan on or around July 26, 1944. Though it was widely believed that Manning Kimmel died on board his boat, several sources (including Admiral Christie) stated after the war that Manning was one of a handful of survivors from his submarine, having been swept overboard as the boat sank after hitting a mine. Manning was captured by the Japanese and with several other survivors was pushed into a ditch, doused with gasoline and burned alive by his Japanese captors, who were enraged over a recent American air attack.

Later life and death
Hunleigh died at on September 15, 1916 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Background
Adams was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in the Kenton Hills neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky. He attended The Ohio State University for two years where he pursued a M.A. in history, specializing in Kentucky's Asiatic cholera epidemics. Adams received his M.S.L.S. from the University of Kentucky in 1994.

Adams' interest in the life of Lew Wallace began when he was a boy, exploring two surviving American Civil War fortifications from the Defense of Cincinnati in Covington's Devou Park. He began a studying the Civil War history of northern Kentucky and while an undergraduate at Northern Kentucky University, he wrote and published his senior honor's thesis, "Panic on the Ohio: The Civil War Defenses of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport, September 1862", which was subsequently published in The Journal of Kentucky Studies.

Career
Adams began his career in special collections administration at Northern Kentucky University in 1994. He became an assistant professor and rare books librarian at Kansas State University in 1998 and was promoted to associate professor in 2003. Adams was highly involved with university faculty governance and served as Faculty Senate president 2006-2007. He served two consecutive terms on the Board of Trustees for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 2--- and was a featured speaker at the 2005 Lew Wallace Symposium in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

He became involved with the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in 2001 and today serves as vice president for awards. Adams regularly presents papers at the PCA/ACA national and regional conferences on food and drink in popular culture. His main interest remains the life and work of Lew Wallace and he was featured in the 2015 production of "Lew Wallace: Shiloh Soldier, Ben-Hur Bard" produced by WTIU public television in Bloomington, Indiana.

Adams' personal collection of the works of Lew Wallace and his wife Susan Wallace is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. He shares the collection via an online bibliography.

Works

 * History Book Club Alternate Selection, 2001; Pulitzer Prize Nominee, 2001; Peter Seaborg Book Award for Civil War Non-Fiction, 2002; Kentucky Governor’s Award, 2003
 * Tennessee History Book Award, 1997
 * History Book Club Alternate Selection, 2001; Pulitzer Prize Nominee, 2001; Peter Seaborg Book Award for Civil War Non-Fiction, 2002; Kentucky Governor’s Award, 2003
 * Tennessee History Book Award, 1997
 * Tennessee History Book Award, 1997

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James Andrew Sexton (January 1, 1844 - February 5, 1899ry 16, 1915) was an American soldier who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and as the 27th Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1896-1897.

Early life and education
Sexton was born January 1, 1844 in Chicago, Illinois to

Military career
Sexton enlisted as a private in Company E, 67th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in April 1862. He was promoted to first lieutenant on June 13, 1862. ***start here*** He was promoted to Captain, Company D, 72nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry on August 21, 1862. James participated in the following battles and campaigns: Vicksburg, Second Battle of Iuka, Spring Hill Siege and battle of Mobile, Alabama. Most of his service was in the Dept of Tennessee, 16th & 17th Army Corps. He was wounded in left leg at Spanish Fort, Alabama. He assumed command of the regiment at Franklin. Tennessee and remained in command during the Nashville, Tennessee campaign. He then served on Major General A. J. Smith's staff during the last 8 or 9 months of his service. He mustered out on August 25, 1865.

Post-war
He was elected as the Commander of the Illinois Department of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1888 and Commander-in-Chief of the G.A.R. in 1898. Sexton was a member of U.S. Grant Post No. 28.

Sexton died February 5, 1899 in Chicago, becoming the first sitting Commander-in-Chief of the G.A.R. to die while in office. He is buried at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.