1840 Signed Letter From Callender Irvine, Commissary General of Purchases

1840 Letter From Callender Irvine, Commissary General of Purchases. The letter written from the Commissary (of Purchases) Office, to Mr. E.S. Fayssoux, Military Store Keeper, at the U.S. Schuylkill Arsenal, Pa. informing him to pack up the list of supplies mentioned in this letter, to Lieutenant James Duncan, commanding Co. A, 2nd Artillery at Poinsett Barracks, Buffalo, New York.  This shipment is all horse accoutrements.

Signed by Callender Irvine.

Callender Irvine (1775–1841), public official, graduated in 1794 from Dickinson College in his home state of Pennsylvania. He was a captain in the United States Army’s 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, 1798–1801, and a federal Indian agent, 1802–03. Irvine subsequently served as the nation’s superintendent of military stores, 1804–12, and as commissary general of purchases, 1812–41.  Callender Irvine as Commissary General of Purchases led to the introduction of procurement procedures which lasted for many years. Having joined the Hibernian Society of Philadelphia in 1815, he was its vice president, 1829–41. Irvine died in Philadelphia .