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Larned, Charles William

soldier, educator, philologist, was born March 9, 1850, in New York city. In 1870 he graduated from the United States Military academy of West Point. He has been first and second lieutenant of the seventh New York cavalry, and served on frontier in Kansas; then on reconstruction service in Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1873 he was in the Dakota expedition against Sitting Bull, under Stanley and Custer, and was in the fight at the mouth of the Big Horn. Since 1876 he has been professor of topographical and mechanical drawing in the United States Military academy. He is a member of the American Philological association, and other scientific bodies; and has contributed extensively to current literature.