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Edmund P. Easterbrook | |
Birth Date: | 1865 12, mf=y |
Placeofburial: | Arlington National Cemetery |
Birth Place: | Torquay, England |
Death Place: | Hampton, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Drew Theological Seminary (BD) |
Children: | 5, including Arthur and Ernest |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | United States Army |
Serviceyears: | 1898–1929 |
Rank: | Colonel |
Commands: | U.S. Army Chaplain Corps |
Edmund Pepperell Easterbrook (December 22, 1865 - January 18, 1933) was an English-born American military officer and minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church who served as the 2nd Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army from 1928 to 1929.[1]
He was married to the former Fannie Luscombe in September 1892. The couple would go on to have 5 children: Arthur, Gladys, William, Wilfred, and Ernest. Arthur and Ernest served as general officers in the Army, while Gladys married future general J. Lawton Collins.[2]
He died in 1933 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[3]