ARMY GENERAL KUHN RETIRES AFTER 40 YEARS OF MILITARY SERVICE
San Francisco, California (JFK+50) On August 2, 1925, The Sunday Star reports that yesterday Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn* "was retired from the Army service at the Presideo**...with the rank of major general."
General Kuhn served "more than 40 years" in the United States Army.
While a military observer in Germany in 1906, Kuhn reportedly "kidded the kaiser" that the German army "could lick the world."
The General commanded the 79th Division during the world war.
*Joseph E. Kuhn (1864-1935) was born in Leavenworth, Kansas & graduated from the USMA 1885 at the top of his class. JEK served in the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War & WWI.
**The Presideo (Presidio) was a US Army post located on the northern tip of the San Francisco peninsula. It was established as a fort by Spain in 1776. The US Army ended its military use in 1988 & it was transferred to the National Park Service.
SOURCE
"'Kidder Of Kaiser' Ends Long US Army Career," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., August 2, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
