While checking Facebook on my iPhone, I ran across an article published as part of Arizona’s celebration of its statehood centennial this year: Arizona Centennial: The Making of a State – Whipple blazed route for transcontinental railroad. (Recall that he was mortally wounded during the U.S. Civil War while defending Washington, D.C. If you’ve spent much time on the Whipple Website, you will also know that Fort Myer–now in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia–was named Fort Whipple from the 1860s until 1881, in his honor.)
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