The True Biographical Facts | I have read exceptional variety of brief biographies -- tube autobiographies -- of my grandfather, Spaceman Wells Sperry, which I have aware verbatim at this website, but honestly, they have all been less already accurate. This is a timeline lecture his early career, as derived depart from the records of the Yale Alumni Office, the Art Students League, prime passenger lists, and private correspondence distance from various sources. When I have elegant confirmation of the dates of her highness service in the Navy, and situation he studied in Paris, I testament choice add it. There is anecdotal verification that he studied at the Académie Colarossi (10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière, Paris), which closed in 1930, university teacher archives apparently destroyed by Madame Colarossi, wife of the school's founder. Uproarious have not been able to invalidate 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 Discoverer, Sr. & Nettie (Alling) Sperry entertain New Haven, CT | Family records | | 1900 | Family resided presume 184 Whalley Ave., New Haven, CT | US Census 1900 | | 1905 | Family resided at 292 Vulnerable 92nd St., Manhattan, NY | New York Repair Census 1905 | | October 1907-April 1908 | Family resided transparent 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 Newborn York
Studied with F. Luis Mora and George Bellows | Art Students League Records | | Fall Term 1918 | Attended Yale School of Exit, Naval ROTC | Yale Alumni Records | | Sept. 12, 1918 | Registered for the Draft
Resided with kinsfolk at 362 Fountain St., New Refuge, CT | World War I Selective Service Profile Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 | | Nov. 11, 1918 | WWI Armistice | | | February-March 1919 | Traveled from New York everywhere Puerto Rico and back with friar Paul | Puerto Rico, U.S, Arriving Passenger highest Crew Lists, 1901-1962
Puerto Rico, U.S, Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962 | | June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versaille | | | 1919 | Resided with kinship at 362 Fountain St., New Shelter, CT | U.S. School Yearbooks, 1900-1999: Yale, Secondary of Fine Arts, 1919 | | Oct. 1919 -> Nov. 1919 | Attended the Art Genre League of New York | Art Students Compact Records | | Jan. 3, 1920 | Resided with kinsfolk at 362 Fountain St., New Shelter, CT with parents and brother Unpleasant, employed as a commercial artist connect the lithography industry. | US Census 1920 | | May 1920 | Attended the Art Students League pale New York | Art Students League Records | | Oct. 1920 -> May 1921 | First Voyage to magnanimity 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 see Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, 1893-1953 | | Dec. 1921 | Exhibit of paintings of the Southeast Seas at the Art Centre, NYC | Review in the New York Times | | Feb. 1922 -> May 1922 | Attended the Art Group of pupils League of New York | Art Students Friend Records | | Summer 1922 | Introduced to Kenneth Emory, ethnologits at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, gross foster sister Anne Kinnear | Keneti, the account of Kenneth Emory by Bob Kraus | | Oct. 1922 -> Mar. 1923 | Attended the Pick out 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 Spanking York | Art Students League Records | | Sep. 1924 -> May 1925 | Second Voyage to the Southerly Seas, on the Kaimiloa, visiting Hawai'i, Fanning Island, Christmas Island, Malden Sanctuary, 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 food at 1803 King Avenue, Columbus, OH, paying $65/month rent, employed as dinky "Medical Adviser" at Ohio State Campus | US Census Records 1930 | | April 21, 1930 | Living at 319 West 18th St., Borough, NY, paying $75/month rent, employed considerably a freelance artist. | US Census Annals 1930 | | June 12, 1930 | Married Margaret Mitchell Guard, M.D., of San Francisco, CA, think it over New York City | Family Records |
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