Background
Scheips, Paul Joseph was born on October 24, 1914 in Peru, Indiana, United States. Son of Paul Bernard and Cleo Reatha (Keim) Scheips.
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38pp., notes, photos. The Great Westerner Series. Biography of the author of Apaches & Longhorns. He served in the Army Signal Corps in 1879.
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Scheips, Paul Joseph was born on October 24, 1914 in Peru, Indiana, United States. Son of Paul Bernard and Cleo Reatha (Keim) Scheips.
AB, Evansville College, 1935. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, American University, 1965.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Evansville, 1984.
Elementary school teacher, San Sebastian, P.R., 1935-1936; high school teacher, Evansville, Indiana, 1936-1938, 40, 41; clerk war bond division, War Department, Chicago, 1942-1943; instructor, Denison U., Granville, Ohio., 1943-1945; teaching fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1945-1946; graduate research and writing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1946-1950; instructor, United States Census Bureau, South Bend, Indiana, 1950; historian, Air Proving Ground Commanded, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1951-1952; historian, Signal Corps History Division, Washington, 1952-1962; historian, Center of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, 1962-1986; chief staff support branch, Center of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, 1984-1986; retired, Center of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, 1986; consultant, since 1986.
(38 pp., notes, photographs, illustrations. A fine, unblem...)
(38pp., notes, photos. The Great Westerner Series. Biograp...)
Fellow American Military Institute. Member United States Commission on Military History (former board directors), Society for History in Federal Government (former secretary, board directors), National Council on Public History (former board directors), Cosmos Club (Washington).
Married Alice V. Cole, August 27, 1944.