Category:Joseph Orton Kerbey

**Joseph Orton Kerbey**
	American diplomat and writer. Childhood friend of Andrew Carnegie. One of the youngest telegraphers and spies in the Civil War. He went on to be an American consulate in Brazil and a writer for The Associated Press.
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Date of birth	1841; Fort Loudoun
Date of death	1913; Pittsburgh
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Occupation	writer;
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English: Joseph Orton Kerbey (1841-1913) served as a telegraph operator and a Union spy during the Civil War, writing about his war exploits in the post-war period. He worked as a press telegraph reporter in the U.S. Senate Press Gallery. Later, he entered the diplomatic service of the United States and was posted as a consul to Para, Brazil in 1891-1892.

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The boy spy; a substantially true record of events during the war of the rebellion (1889) (30 F)

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An American consul in Amazonia (1911).djvu 2,346 × 3,719, 468 pages; 9.85 MB
J. Orton Kerbey author, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 Jun 1911.png 484 × 1,590; 544 KB
Joseph Orton Kerbey.jpg 236 × 383; 51 KB
The land of to-morrow; a newspaper exploration up the Amazon and over the Andes to the California of South America (IA landoftomorrowne00kerbrich).pdf 647 × 1,010, 456 pages; 22.42 MB
Maj. J. Orton Kerbey.jpg 503 × 770; 207 KB
On the War Path. A Journey Over the Historic Grounds of the Late Civil War (1890).djvu 2,204 × 3,134, 312 pages; 7.14 MB

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