General Charles Augustus Doyen (1859 - 1919)
Born Concord (NH); died Quantico (VA). Portrait by E. Wyatt Kimball. Purchased by the State, 1919.

Charles Doyen was educated at Concord public schools and graduated from the US Naval Academy, Annapolis (MD), Class of 1881. He served as a midshipman in the U.S. Marine Corps (1881-1883) and was promoted to Second Lieutenant, July, 1883. Doyen received subsequent promotions until 1898, when he was promoted to Colonel. He was ".stationed off Cuba and Porto Rico during the Spanish War; at the Philippine Islands 1904-1906 and again in 1913-1914; in command of the U.S. Marine Barracks at Washington at the outbreak of war with Germany [February, 1917]; promoted to Brigadier General on March 22, 1917; left Washington for France, in command of the 5th regiment, U.S. Marines, June 7, 1917, and saw action in the front line trenches in the Verdun sector; invalided home in May, 1918, and later assigned to command at the Marine training camp, Quantico, Va.." [H.H. Metcalf, One Thousand New Hampshire Notables (Concord, 1919), pp. 285-6.]

Location: First Floor, State House