Colonel Fahnestock was Veteran of WW1 &WW2
US Army WW1
1st battalion 308th Inf Regiment 77th Division
Promoted to Major
Awards Purple Heart - Croix de Guerre (FR)
Snowden was among the first training class at the Plattsburg Camp in 1917. By the time he was deployed to Europe with the 77th Division he had achieved the rank of captain. On November 1st 1918 Fahnestocks name appeared on the list of soldiers reported wounded in action. Despite his serious injuries, Snowden recovered and returned home. Following the war he held the rank of colonel and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government.
WW2
Fahnestock served as a Colonel in Intelligence at the pentagon.
Occupation banker
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On June 1, 1910 Elizabeth Bertron was married to Snowden Andrews Fahnestock in her parent's home at No. 46 West 54th Street. It was a particularly notable wedding and the long guest list included some of the most elevated names in Manhattan society--Roosevelt, Delano, Hewitt, Rives, Iselin, Minturn, Vanderbilt, and Whitney among them. The New York Times remarked that the newlyweds left "on a short wedding trip and will eventually make their home in New York."
The "wedding trip" was necessarily short because in just two weeks Elizabeth was scheduled to be the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Eleanor Alexander and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. But the couple would have a proper honeymoon afterward.
They were divorced in 1924.
Colonel Fahnestock second marriage also ended in divorce in 1934 after a second daughter. He married a third time in 1936.
US Army WW1
1st battalion 308th Inf Regiment 77th Division
Promoted to Major
Awards Purple Heart - Croix de Guerre (FR)
Snowden was among the first training class at the Plattsburg Camp in 1917. By the time he was deployed to Europe with the 77th Division he had achieved the rank of captain. On November 1st 1918 Fahnestocks name appeared on the list of soldiers reported wounded in action. Despite his serious injuries, Snowden recovered and returned home. Following the war he held the rank of colonel and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government.
WW2
Fahnestock served as a Colonel in Intelligence at the pentagon.
Occupation banker
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On June 1, 1910 Elizabeth Bertron was married to Snowden Andrews Fahnestock in her parent's home at No. 46 West 54th Street. It was a particularly notable wedding and the long guest list included some of the most elevated names in Manhattan society--Roosevelt, Delano, Hewitt, Rives, Iselin, Minturn, Vanderbilt, and Whitney among them. The New York Times remarked that the newlyweds left "on a short wedding trip and will eventually make their home in New York."
The "wedding trip" was necessarily short because in just two weeks Elizabeth was scheduled to be the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Eleanor Alexander and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. But the couple would have a proper honeymoon afterward.
They were divorced in 1924.
Colonel Fahnestock second marriage also ended in divorce in 1934 after a second daughter. He married a third time in 1936.
Colonel Fahnestock was Veteran of WW1 &WW2
US Army WW1
1st battalion 308th Inf Regiment 77th Division
Promoted to Major
Awards Purple Heart - Croix de Guerre (FR)
Snowden was among the first training class at the Plattsburg Camp in 1917. By the time he was deployed to Europe with the 77th Division he had achieved the rank of captain. On November 1st 1918 Fahnestocks name appeared on the list of soldiers reported wounded in action. Despite his serious injuries, Snowden recovered and returned home. Following the war he held the rank of colonel and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government.
WW2
Fahnestock served as a Colonel in Intelligence at the pentagon.
Occupation banker
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On June 1, 1910 Elizabeth Bertron was married to Snowden Andrews Fahnestock in her parent's home at No. 46 West 54th Street. It was a particularly notable wedding and the long guest list included some of the most elevated names in Manhattan society--Roosevelt, Delano, Hewitt, Rives, Iselin, Minturn, Vanderbilt, and Whitney among them. The New York Times remarked that the newlyweds left "on a short wedding trip and will eventually make their home in New York."
The "wedding trip" was necessarily short because in just two weeks Elizabeth was scheduled to be the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Eleanor Alexander and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. But the couple would have a proper honeymoon afterward.
They were divorced in 1924.
Colonel Fahnestock second marriage also ended in divorce in 1934 after a second daughter. He married a third time in 1936.
US Army WW1
1st battalion 308th Inf Regiment 77th Division
Promoted to Major
Awards Purple Heart - Croix de Guerre (FR)
Snowden was among the first training class at the Plattsburg Camp in 1917. By the time he was deployed to Europe with the 77th Division he had achieved the rank of captain. On November 1st 1918 Fahnestocks name appeared on the list of soldiers reported wounded in action. Despite his serious injuries, Snowden recovered and returned home. Following the war he held the rank of colonel and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government.
WW2
Fahnestock served as a Colonel in Intelligence at the pentagon.
Occupation banker
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On June 1, 1910 Elizabeth Bertron was married to Snowden Andrews Fahnestock in her parent's home at No. 46 West 54th Street. It was a particularly notable wedding and the long guest list included some of the most elevated names in Manhattan society--Roosevelt, Delano, Hewitt, Rives, Iselin, Minturn, Vanderbilt, and Whitney among them. The New York Times remarked that the newlyweds left "on a short wedding trip and will eventually make their home in New York."
The "wedding trip" was necessarily short because in just two weeks Elizabeth was scheduled to be the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Eleanor Alexander and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. But the couple would have a proper honeymoon afterward.
They were divorced in 1924.
Colonel Fahnestock second marriage also ended in divorce in 1934 after a second daughter. He married a third time in 1936.
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