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Supplement 355
dren: Mary (died in infancy), Elsie Jane, Bartlett Golden, Jr , and Violet
Death due to natural causes. Buried in Shanghai Survived by wife, two
daughters, and son.
Carroll Gowen Riggs, B.A. 1915.
Born August 22, 1890, in Bucoda, Wash.
Died December 18, 1942, in Australia.
Father, Arthur Norton Riggs, manager McCormick (Wash ) Lumber
Company; son of John Gowen and Georgina Frances (Norton) Riggs of
Minneapolis. Mother, Virginia Belle (Willard) Riggs, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Joselyn (Blaisdell) Willard of Seattle.
Tacoma (Wash.) High School and Philhps-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior year; Freshman Track Team, University Track Squad,
College Choir three years
Overseas with American Field Service June, 1915—December, 1916,
awarded Croix de Guerre for driving his ambulance seventy-two consecutive hours under fire; entered military service May 15, 1917, attended Officers Training Camp, The Presidio of San Francisco, May-August, 1917,
commissioned Second Lieutenant, Officers Reserve Corps, August 15,1917,
transferred to regular Army November 15, 1917; promoted First Lieutenant October 26,1917, Captain (temporary rank June 28,1918) July 1,1920,
Major August 1, 1935, Lieutenant Colonel August 18, 1940, and Colonel
June 26, 1942; overseas July 13, 1918—June 28, 1919, with 62d Regiment,
Coast Artillery Corps, until the Armistice and then with Second Aeronautical Corps and Army of Occupation, stationed at Fort Winfield Scott
with Fifty-seventh Coast Artillery Corps 1920 and 1923-29 and Camp
Lewis 1921; assigned to 59th Coast Artillery, Camp Mills, Corregidor,
Philippine Islands, 1921-22; graduate Battery Officers Course, Coast Artillery School, and Field Officers Course, Chemical Warfare School, 1929,
stationed at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 1929-33, Fort Hancock 1933-35, and
Fort Wadsworth 1935-38; R O T C instructor University of Kansas 1938-
40; stationed at Fort Sheridan 1940-41, at the Armory in Philadelphia
1941-42, and overseas from February 16, 1942; member First Congregational Church, Seattle.
Married October 23,1926, in San Jose, Cahf, Vivian Mildred, daughter
of James Bert and Nome Ethel (Herbert) Rines Children Marilyn, Joan
Carroll, and Sonya Michaele.
Colonel Riggs was killed when his plane crashed while on a reconnaissance flight Buried in an American cemetery in Australia Survived by
wife, daughters, mother, and two brothers, Fredrick Willard Riggs of
Long Beach, Calif, and Arthur Norton Riggs, Jr, of Vallejo, Cahf.
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1940-1945 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 355 |
| Transcript | Supplement 355 dren: Mary (died in infancy), Elsie Jane, Bartlett Golden, Jr , and Violet Death due to natural causes. Buried in Shanghai Survived by wife, two daughters, and son. Carroll Gowen Riggs, B.A. 1915. Born August 22, 1890, in Bucoda, Wash. Died December 18, 1942, in Australia. Father, Arthur Norton Riggs, manager McCormick (Wash ) Lumber Company; son of John Gowen and Georgina Frances (Norton) Riggs of Minneapolis. Mother, Virginia Belle (Willard) Riggs, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Joselyn (Blaisdell) Willard of Seattle. Tacoma (Wash.) High School and Philhps-Andover First colloquy appointment Junior year; Freshman Track Team, University Track Squad, College Choir three years Overseas with American Field Service June, 1915—December, 1916, awarded Croix de Guerre for driving his ambulance seventy-two consecutive hours under fire; entered military service May 15, 1917, attended Officers Training Camp, The Presidio of San Francisco, May-August, 1917, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Officers Reserve Corps, August 15,1917, transferred to regular Army November 15, 1917; promoted First Lieutenant October 26,1917, Captain (temporary rank June 28,1918) July 1,1920, Major August 1, 1935, Lieutenant Colonel August 18, 1940, and Colonel June 26, 1942; overseas July 13, 1918—June 28, 1919, with 62d Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps, until the Armistice and then with Second Aeronautical Corps and Army of Occupation, stationed at Fort Winfield Scott with Fifty-seventh Coast Artillery Corps 1920 and 1923-29 and Camp Lewis 1921; assigned to 59th Coast Artillery, Camp Mills, Corregidor, Philippine Islands, 1921-22; graduate Battery Officers Course, Coast Artillery School, and Field Officers Course, Chemical Warfare School, 1929, stationed at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, 1929-33, Fort Hancock 1933-35, and Fort Wadsworth 1935-38; R O T C instructor University of Kansas 1938- 40; stationed at Fort Sheridan 1940-41, at the Armory in Philadelphia 1941-42, and overseas from February 16, 1942; member First Congregational Church, Seattle. Married October 23,1926, in San Jose, Cahf, Vivian Mildred, daughter of James Bert and Nome Ethel (Herbert) Rines Children Marilyn, Joan Carroll, and Sonya Michaele. Colonel Riggs was killed when his plane crashed while on a reconnaissance flight Buried in an American cemetery in Australia Survived by wife, daughters, mother, and two brothers, Fredrick Willard Riggs of Long Beach, Calif, and Arthur Norton Riggs, Jr, of Vallejo, Cahf. |
