NM Mordecai, Alfred, Sr.

Alfred Mordecai Sr.​

Birthplace: Warrenton, North Carolina

Father: Jacob Mordecai 1762 – 1838

(Buried: Hebrew Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

Mother: Rebecca Mears Myers 1776 – 1863

(Buried: Hebrew Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

Wife: Sara Ann Hays 1805 – 1894

(Buried: Mikveh Israel Cemetery No. 2, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)​

Children:

Brig. General Alfred Mordecai Jr. 1840 – 1920​

(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)​

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Augustus Mordecai II 1847 – 1918​

(Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio)​

Education:

1823: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (1st​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1823: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army Engineers​

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1823 – 1832: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army Engineers​

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1823 – 1824: Assistant Philosophy Professor at West Point​

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1824 – 1825: Assistant Engineering Professor at West Point​

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1825 – 1828: Assistant Engineer Construction Forts Monroe & Calhoun​

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1828 – 1832: Assistant to the Chief Engineer for United States Army​

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1832: On Special duty with United States Secretary of War​

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1832 – 1854: Captain United States Army Ordnance Department​

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1832 – 1833: Assistant Ordnance Officer for Washington Arsenal​

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1835 – 1838: Commander of Frankford Arsenal in Pennsylvania​

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1838 – 1842: Assistant to U.S. Army Chief of Ordnance​

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1839 – 1860: Member of U.S. Army Ordnance Board​

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1842: United States Assistant Inspector of Arsenals​

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1843: Member of Board of Visitors for West Point Military Academy​

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1844 – 1855: Commander of Washington, D.C. Arsenal​

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1845: Published: Report of Experiments on Gunpowder​

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1848: Brevetted Major for his duty during Mexican – American War​

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1849: Published: Artillery for the United States Land Service​

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1855 – 1857: Member of Military Commission observe Crimean War​

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1860: Member of Board to revise instruction at West Point​

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1860: Published: Ordnance Department Report on the Military commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856​

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1861: Resigned from United States Army on May 5th​​

Occupation after Military:

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1863 – 1866: Assistant Engineer for Mexico and Pacific Railroad Co.​

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1867 – 1887: Treasurer and Secretary for Pennsylvania Railroad Co.​

Died: October 23, 1887

Place of Death: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Age at time of Death: 85 years old

Burial Place: Mikveh Israel Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

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Obit:

 

[James N.]

Alfred Mordecai is seated at left in this group photo showing members of the United States Military Commission sent to study the Crimean War. The others from Mordecai to right: standing, their unidentified Russian liaison officer; seated, Col. Richard Delafield; and standing, Captain George B. McClellan, junior member of the commission. (Note the Russian's pickelhaube on the table at right.)

 

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It was a small class, only 35. Some of his Civil War classmates from West Point included George S. Greene and Lorenzo Thomas.