Doherty, James J. Papers

Sergeant, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division

The papers of James J. Doherty include press clippings and other printed materials concerning Doherty’s involvement with Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, under the leadership of Captain Harry S. Truman, as well as other materials concerning President Truman.

Size: 2.5 linear inches (about 50 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection. Documents created by U.S. government officials in the course of their duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Molly Black (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

James J. Doherty was a Sergeant in Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division during World War I. He served under Captain Harry S. Truman.

The papers of James J. Doherty include press clippings and other printed materials concerning Doherty’s involvement in the First World War with Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, under the leadership of Captain Harry S. Truman, as well as other materials concerning President Truman. The collection is arranged in a single series, the Subject File.

The collection contains programs for Battery D and 35th Division reunions and banquets; invitations; examples of World War I poems and lyrics; and printed materials relating to President Truman’s Inauguration in 1949 and his funeral in 1972.

The Doherty papers were originally opened for research as part of the Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection (MHDC 284).

More information about James J. Doherty can be found in the papers of Harry S. Truman (President’s Personal File: PPF 1234).