Memorials of Buffalo, New York
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Title:
Albert James Myer
Description:
Albert James Myer, M.D. 1829 - 1880.
Surgeon * Brigadier General * Inventor of the 'Wig-Wag' signal system * First director of the Army Signal Corps * Founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau * U.S. Delegate to the International Conferences of Vienna, Austria, 1873 & Rome, Italy, 1879.
Erected by:
Placed by the Abigail Fillmore Chapter, NSDAR, May 26, 1978.
Location:
Forest Lawn Cemetery.