Lucien Grant Berry

Lucien Grant Berry (November 29, 1863 – December 31, 1937) was a brigadier general in the United States Army who served in three wars. Berry graduated number nine of seventy-seven in the class of 1886. Several of his classmates included men who would, like Berry himself, eventually rise to the rank of brigadier general or higher in their military careers. They included: Henry C. Newcomer, Mason Patrick, Thomas H. Rees, Frank McIntyre, John E. McMahon, Avery D. Andrews, Charles T. Menoher, Albert D. Kniskern, Charles C. Walcutt Jr., John J. Pershing, Peter E. Traub, Benjamin A. Poore, Jesse McI. Carter, Chauncey B. Baker, Malvern Hill Barnum, William H. Hay, James H. McRae, Walter H. Gordon, Arthur Johnson, Frank L. Winn, Charles C. Ballou, George B. Duncan, Lucius L. Durfee, Julius Penn and Edward M. Lewis.

Personal life He married Emily Ross Minier (1864–1945) on October 28, 1886. They had a son and five daughters. On March 11, 1911, Berry was promoted to lieutenant colonel and went to the Army War College, graduating in 1912. He then served with the 4th Field Artillery Regiment at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, until 1913, when he was promoted to colonel and given command of the regiment. He took his regiment to Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1914 and then onto the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916 and 1917.

On August 5, 1917, Berry was promoted to brigadier general and commanded the 60th Field Artillery Brigade in Oklahoma. In May 1918, he took this brigade to France and joined the 35th Division in the Vosges Mountains. He was the 35th Division's Chief of Artillery and also supported the First Infantry Division in battle.

He returned to the States in April 1919, and on June 5 reverted to his permanent rank of colonel. He commanded the 78th Field Artillery Brigade and later the Sixth Field Artillery Brigade until his retirement on June 19, 1921. While retired, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1930. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.