Henry Delp Styer

Henry Delp Styer

• Henry Delp Styer was born circa 1863 in Sellersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
• Henry Delp Styer died on 11 May 1944 in San Diego County, California.
• The following appeared on 12 May 1944 in the Niagara Falls Gazette:
       Brigadier General Henry Delp Styer, U. S. Army, retired, former commandant at Fort Niagara and officer in command of Allied troops in Siberia during World War I, died at his home in San Diego, Calif., last night at the age of 81.
       Widely known among older residents of Niagara Falls, General Styer was the father of Major General W. D. Styer, of Washington, D. C., whose wife is the former Miss Dorothea Haeberle, daughter of George C. Haeberle, of 927 South avenue, this city. The younger General Styer is now chief of staff of the Services Supply of the U. S. Army in Washington.
       Brigadier General Styer is also survived by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Wilkes Styer, of San Diego; a second son, Charles W. Styer, an officer in the U. S. Navy, and a daughter, Mrs. Hearst, wife of a U. S. naval officer.
       Born in Sellersville, Pa., General Styer graduated from the West Point Military academy as a lieutenant in 1884. He first came to Fort Niagara as a first lieutenant of the Thirteenth Regiment in 1891. In 1898 he accompanied his regiment as quartermaster to the Philippines and while there was credited with the capture of a notorious rebel leader, Vincent del Prado, who was executed.
       After his return from the tropics as a captain, he was military instructor at an agricultural college in Utah and returned to Fort Niagara as a major in the Twenty-ninth Regiment about 1909. Subsequently he became commandant at the post and did much to advance its development during those years.
       During the first World war he was entrusted with the big job of leading the Allied campaign in Siberia, an accomplishment which won him high commendation. Retired for a number of years, he has been residing in San Diego.

• Last Edited: 29 Feb 2012