Background
Shelmire, Horace Weeks was born on September 7, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David and Alice Anne (Ramsey) Shelmire.
Shelmire, Horace Weeks was born on September 7, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David and Alice Anne (Ramsey) Shelmire.
Graduate Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1904. Graduate Field Artillery School, La Valdahon, France, 1918. Battery Officers School, Philadelphia, 1926, Command and staff schedul, 1932, Aerial Gunnery School, Panama City, Florida, 1943.
Honorary Doctor of Laws, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1943.
Began as clerk with Hess-Bright Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, October 1904. Assistant paymaster Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 1905-1910. Independent insurance broker, Philadelphia, 1910-1941.
Private infantry Pennsylvania National Guard, 1903-1909, Plattsburg, 1915-1916. First lieutenant, captain, major, Field Artillery, 81st Division, France, 1917-1919. Lieutenant colonel, colonel, Field Artillery Reserve, 1920-1941 (commanded 311th Field Artillery Regiment, 79th Division).
Federal service since September 1941. Executive assistant to commanding general United States Army Air Force, Washington, September 15, 1941-1943. Transferred November 1943.
Assistant chief of staff, 73d wing, 20th Air Force, 1943-1946.
Member American Legion (Wayne, Pennsylvania). Club: Explorers.; Mason.
Married Anna Dorothy Wolfe, May 15, 1918 (deceased).; married second, Dorothy MacDonald, January 28, 1948. Children: Dorothy Alice (Mistress Franklin Collins), Eleanor Anne (deceased), Richard Horrace (deceased).