Notes for Arthur Berton BREYFOGLE

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Notes for Arthur Berton BREYFOGLE

Arthur (known as Art to the family) was a Chief Petty Officer in the navy and traveled the world returning home often to present gifts to his family. After retiring he built a lakeside cabin at Storm Lake, Iowa and later moved to Sacrament to live with his sister.

Source: Bonnie Wirkus, local file name "Breyfogle family history.doc"

The California Death Index has Arthur's middle named spelled Berten. The family Bible has it spelled Berton.

BREYFOGLE, ARTHUR BERTEN

Alta

Born April 4, 1901. Enl. April 26, 1917. Seaman on U. S. S. Welles. Promoted from apprentice seaman to seaman. Trained at G. L. N. T. S.; to Philadelphia; to New York. Made four trips on S. S. Pioneer with armed guard gun crew. First, second and third trips were round trips touching at Liverpool. Le Havre, Rouen, and then back to Plymouth; fourth trip to Gibraltar, Algiers, Tunis, Brezerta., Island of Malta, and Gibraltar. Left Gibraltar for New York on S. S. Pioneer; landed at Bayonne, New Jersey; to Brooklyn; at Brooklyn transferred to the U. S. S Gamble. To Cuba; to Norfolk; to Boston; to Rockland, Maine; to Boston to convoy President Wilson's ship, the George Washington, into harbor; to Norfolk; to Key West; to Cuba; to New York. Transferred to U. S. S. Welles. Mustered out August 30, 1919. On September 2, 1919, re- enlisted for two years.

SOURCE: USGENWEB Project, Buena Vista County, Iowa Site

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