Vicomte Exmouth Charles Pellew Lettre dactylographiée signée à la main datée de 1904 JG Autographs COA

  

"Viscount Exmouth" Charles Pellew Signed Letter Dated 1904 on Columbia University letterhead. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

Charles Pellew was born on 11 March 1863 in London, England. Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth.

A British admiral who saw action in the. Charles was Henry Pellew's second son, his older brother being the writer George Pellew. His mother was Eliza Jay, the daughter of a judge from New York and a descendant of. His step-mother was Augusta Jay - his mother's sister. The family came to the United States in 1873, and Charles Pellew, being a minor at the time of his father's naturalisation in 1877, then automatically became a United States citizen upon attaining the age of 21.

He married Miss Margaret W. Chandler, who was the daughter of Dr. Chandler, a Dean of Columbia College, on 29 April 1886 at St. Thomas's Church in New York. On 18 February 1892, his older brother, George Pellew, died from a concussion when he fell down a flight of stone stairs while walking in New York City.

An inflammation of the eyes had temporarily caused him to be partially blind. From 1886 until 1897, he was a professor at the. College of Physicians and Surgeons.

His appointment to this post, by his father-in-law, Dr. Charles Chandler, who was the Dean of the College of Mines, was not without some controversy. During the same time period, he became the president of the.

In Canaan Four Corners, New York, but he resigned this position. Shortly after being appointed a chemistry professor at Columbia College, where he remained until 1911. He served as the president of the New York Society of Craftsmen at the Art Centre in New York City, and his professional memberships included the American Federation of Arts as well as the American Chemical Society. He was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Chandler, his father-in-law, resigned as the Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Columbia College, Pellew, along with the rest of the department faculty as a matter of formality, also resigned. Pellew was surprised though when his resignation was accepted. He then became a consulting chemist. Pellew had been consulting on projects for many years. These tests, known as the "Annual Trial of Coins, " were conducted on 8 February 1888 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They examined coins produced in 1887 from each of the different US Mint branches. All coins were found to be within the tolerances allowed by federal laws.