By then it was too late for him to intervene, and Chaffee was harshly criticized for having been married to a slaveholder.

Chaffee was married twice ; in 1868, he married Kate Haynie Reynolds, who died the following year ; in 1875, he married his second wife, Annie Frances Rockwell.

In 1880, he married Fannie Josephine Chaffee ( 1857-1909 ), who was the daughter of Jerome B. Chaffee, the U. S. Senator from Colorado.

When the enormity of the situation was ascertained, it fell on Collins to go the Chaffee household to tell Martha Chaffee that her husband was dead.

At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.

Towns founded during this period included Diehlstadt, Morley, Oran, Perkins, Blodgett, Crowder, Vanduser, Illmo, Fornfelt ( Scott City ), Chaffee, Ancell, and Kelso.

Adna Chaffee, Jr. was the son of Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee, Sr .. Born in Junction City, Kansas on September 23, 1884, he was commissioned a Lieutenant of Cavalry in 1906 after graduating from the United States Military Academy, and won recognition as the " Army's finest horseman.

The land, exhibits and animals themselves are still owned by the City of Fresno but leased to the Fresno's Chaffee Zoo Corp.

FSR operates an 18 mile ( 29 km ) line in Arkansas from Fort Smith ( where it interchanges with Kansas City Southern Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, and Arkansas and Missouri Railroad ) to Fort Chaffee.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

While at Purdue, Chaffee took flight training as part of the Naval ROTC program in order to prepare him for a career as a Naval Aviator, soloing on 29 March 1957 and obtained his private pilot's license on 24 May 1957.

Following graduation, Chaffee completed his Navy training on August 22, 1957 and was commissioned as an Ensign in the U. S. Navy.

* The crater Chaffee on the far side of the Moon.

* Chaffee Hill, 14. 3 km ( 8. 9 mi ) south-southwest of Columbia Memorial Station on Mars, part of the Apollo 1 Hills.

General Chaffee commented, " It is safe to say that where one real Boxer has been killed ... fifty harmless coolies or laborers on the farms, including not a few women and children, have been slain.

Before leaving the Moon on Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong's final task was to place a small package of memorial items to honor Komarov, Yuri Gagarin, and the Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee.

On February 8, 1879, the Colorado legislature renamed Lake County as Carbonate County, although this designation name only lasted for two days, until Chaffee County was split off from Carbonate's southern section on February 10 and the remaining northern portion was redesignated Lake County with its current county seat of Leadville.

The Chaffee Real Estate Company gave public notice for the sale of lots within the soon to be established town to local individuals and companies, and began clearing the land for construction on August 15, 1905.

The residents of the new town petitioned the Clerk of the County Court of Scott County, Missouri to incorporate the area into the fourth-class city of Chaffee on August 6, 1906 and the petition was granted on December 8, 1909.

* Chaffee – A hamlet by the east town line on NY-16.

When the war began in June 1950, the four American infantry divisions on occupation duty in Japan had no medium tanks at all, having only one active tank company ( equipped with M24 Chaffee light tanks ) each.

* M24 Chaffee Photos and Walk Arounds on Prime Portal

It moved to Camp Chaffee on 15 March 1942 to make way for other Armor units, and then completed its assembly and unit training.

The division then participated in the VIII Corps Louisiana Maneuvers from 25 August 1942, and then returned to Camp Chaffee on 21 September 1942.

The division was activated on 15 July 1943 at Camp Chaffee in Arkansas.

These events prompted Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, the military governor of the Philippines, to issue a declaration on April 13, 1902, demanding that the offending datus hand over the killers of American troops and stolen government property.

The Loomis Chaffee School ( LC or Loomis ) is a premier coeducational boarding school for grades 9 – 12 and postgraduates located on a 300-plus acre campus in the Connecticut River Valley in Windsor, Connecticut, six miles ( 10 km ) north of Hartford.

Loomis Homestead ( 1640 ), one of the oldest houses in the state, still remains on the campus of the Loomis Chaffee School ( 1910 postcard )

Chaffee will be succeeded in August 2012 by Markus Kissler-Patig.

Chaffee played a key role in the rapid advance to the imperial capital of Beijing and its subsequent capture on August 14, 1900, which relieved the beleaguered embassy staffs and other Western nationals.

Adna Romanza Chaffee, Jr. ( September 23, 1884 – August 22, 1941 ) was a major general in the United States Army, called the " Father of the Armored Force " for his role in developing the U. S. Army's tank forces.

Chaffee died of cancer on August 22, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts.

After transferring to Purdue University in the fall of 1954, Chaffee earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1957.

* Roger B. Chaffee, Apollo 1, Indiana Alpha 1957

White was buried with full military honors at West Point Cemetery while Grissom and Chaffee are both buried in Section 3 ( GPS Coordinates: 38. 873115 N ,-77. 072755 W ) of Arlington National Cemetery.

Chaffee later served as one of the pallbearers for fellow astronaut Elliot See, who was killed in a plane crash while training for the Gemini 9 mission.

During the seventeen seconds that the fire raged, fed by pure oxygen at slightly greater than atmospheric pressure, Chaffee stayed strapped to his right-hand seat, as it was his job to maintain communications in an emergency, while White in the center seat apparently tried in vain to open the hatch.

Chaffee and Grissom are both buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, while White is buried at West Point Cemetery.

His wife and eldest son ended up in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, while his two daughters and second son fled Saigon with a US State Department employee to Seattle.

At age 19, Chaffee tried out for, and won a spot on the first US Ski Team while a freshman at the University of Denver.

Turning down a possible appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, Chaffee accepted a Naval ROTC scholarship and in September 1953 enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

A few months after the Balangiga Massacre of September 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered Bell's commander General Adna Chaffee to adopt, " in no unmistakable terms ," " the most stern measures to pacify Samar.