Henry Granville Sharpe

Major General Henry Granville Sharpe (April 30, 1858 – July 13, 1947) was a United States Army officer who served as the 24th Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army from 1916 to 1918, including during World War I.

Early life Sharpe was born in Kingston, New York, in 1858, and was the son of Civil War veteran Brevet Major General George H. Sharpe and his wife, Caroline Hone (Hasbrouck) Sharpe. Both of his parents were descendants of the Hasbrouck family; his maternal grandfather was Congressman and Rutgers University president Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck; his paternal great-grandfather was Congressman Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck.

His sister, Katherine Lawrence Hasbrouck, married Congressman Ira Davenport, and his brother Severyn Bruyn Sharpe was the Ulster County judge in 1898. He is also a descendant of Louis DuBois. Sharpe was the second cousin of Major General Robert W. Hasbrouck.

He attended the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, graduating 46th in a class of 52 in June 1880. Among his fellow classmates there at the academy were several men who would, like Sharpe himself, eventually attain the rank of brigadier general or higher in their military careers, such as George W. Goethals, William C. Rafferty, John L. Chamberlain, Charles J. Bailey, Frederick S. Strong, James B. Aleshire, James B. Erwin, William S. Scott, and George Bell Jr.

Military career Sharpe served on frontier duty with the 4th Infantry Regiment at Fort Laramie, Wyoming for the next year and a half. Following a six months' leave of absence, he submitted his resignation from the army to take effect June 1, 1882.