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1 Elizabeth Louise KAUFFMAN1 ( - ) [10155].
From the New York Times.
July 23, 1944 - "MIAMI, Fla., July 22--Rear Admiral James Lawrence Kauffman, USN, and Mrs. Kauffman of this city, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Louise, to Prescott Sheldon Bush Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bush of Greenwich Conn.
Miss Kauffman attended the Potomac School in Washington, the British-American School in Rio de Janeiro and the Chatelard School in Montreaux, Switzerland. She studied also at Miss Collings' School in Newport, R.I. and the Dominican Convent, San Rafael, Calif., and was graduated from the Sarah Dix Hamlin School in San Francisco.
The bride-elect made her debut in 1940 in Washington and in Newport the next summer. She is a granddaughter of the late Col Thomas Wain-Morgan Draper of the Army and the late Mrs. Draper of New York and San Francisco, and of the late Mr. and Mrs. James A. Kauffman of Dayton, Ohio. Miss Kauffman is a sister of Lieut. Comdr. Draper L. Kauffman, USN, who recently married Miss Margaret Tuckerman of Washington.
Mr. Bush is an alumnus of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., attended Yale University with the class of 1944, and was a member of the Whiffenpoofs and the Eilhu Club there. He joined Pan American Airways in 1943, served the company in Brazil for fourteen months and is now stationed in Miami. The prospective bridegroom is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. George Herbert Walker of New York and St. Louis and of Samuel Prescott Bush of Columbus, Ohio. His father is a partner in the firm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., private bankers in New York, and has been a campaign chairman for the National War Fund.".
2 James Lawrence KAUFFMAN2 (1887-1963) [10156]. Born 18 Apr 1887, OH.2 Died 1963.2
From www.navysite.de
"...VICE ADMIRAL JAMES LAURENCE KAUFFMAN (1887 - 1963)
Born in Ohio on 18 April 1887, James Laurence Kauffman attended Pennsylvania Military College, the Army and Navy Preparatory School, and graduated in 1908 from the U.S. Naval Academy.
He held a variety of wide-ranging command billets, ashore and afloat, during World War I. Serving in command of the gunboat RANIER, as an Executive Officer of the destroyer CALDWELL, he became Lieutenant Commander on 1 January 1918. He transferred from the CALDWELL to command the Bath-built USS JENKINS (DD 42). Admiral Kauffman, during his career, spent more time in command, and more time at sea, than any other officer of his time.
At the end of the war, Kauffman returned to the U.S. to commission and command a new ship, the USS BARNEY (DD 149). In November of 1920, he became the Executive Officer of the new Radio Division of the Bureau of Engineering. In May of 1923, he was appointed Naval Aide and Flag Secretary to Admiral S. S. Robinson, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet.
In June of 1925, Kauffman was selected to the rank of Commander. His next tour of duty was as a member of the U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil. Appointed Captain in 1936, Kauffman served as Commanding Officer of the USS MEMPHIS, and later at the shipyard at Mare Island.
In 1941, Rear Admiral Kauffman was sent by President Roosevelt to establish and command a Naval Operating Base in Iceland. In 1942, as the principal Navy anti-submarine expert, he commanded the Gulf Sea Frontier, which included the Gulf of Mexico north to the shore of the Carolinas. Under his dynamic leadership, the U-boat menace in that area was checked. Kauffman later became the senior member of the Allied Anti-Submarine Survey Board, evaluating ASW techniques for Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Moving on to the Pacific in 1943, he assumed command of all the Pacific Fleet's cruisers, destroyers and frigates, 401 ships with 150,000 men.
In October 1944, he reported to General Douglas McArthur as Commander Philippine Sea Frontier. In May of 1946, Vice Admiral Kauffman returned home and was assigned to duty as the Commandant of the Fourth Naval District, where he remained until he retired in 1949.
His second career began the day after termination of his first. As the first President of Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson Medical Center, a position he retained for 10 years, he presided over the greatest period of growth in Jefferson's history.
He was married to the former Elizabeth Kelsey Draper for nearly 54 years. Their daughter, Elizabeth Louise, married Prescott S. Bush, Jr. Their son, Rear Admiral Draper Laurence Kauffman, married the former Margaret C. Tuckerman.".
3 Elizabeth Kelsey DRAPER2 ( - ) [10159].
| 1 | "Engagement announcement of Elizabeth Louise Kauffman and Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr., in the New York Times, July 23, 1944". |
| 2 | "Information on Vice Admiral James Laurence Kauffman on www.navysite.de". |