Biography

Damm was born Henry Christian Augustus Damm on January 19, 1874 to Conrad and Maria Damm in Waushara County, Wisconsin. In 1902 he married Alice Mary Anne Purdue. He passed away on August 24, 1929 in Nogales, Sonora

Nogales, Sonora

Heroica Nogales , more commonly known as Nogales, is a city and its surrounding municipality on the northern border of the Mexican State of Sonora. The municipality covers an area of 1,675 km², and borders to the north the city of Nogales, Arizona, United States, across the U.S.-Mexico border...

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Career

Damm served as U.S. Consul in Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St...

 from 1909 to 1912; in Stettin, Poland

Szczecin

Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....

 from 1912 to 1915; in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany

Aachen

Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...

 from 1915 to 1917; in Stavanger, Norway from 1917 to 1919; in Christiana, Norway

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 in 1918; in Copenhagen, Denmark from 1919 to 1920; in Malaga, Spain from 1920 to 1921; in Valencia, Spain from 1921 to 1922; and in Nogales from 1922 to 1929. While serving as Consul in Aix-la-Chapelle, he would be one of a group of American consuls who would be stranded in Munich, Germany during a diplomatic breakdown during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

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