Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-06-27
DEArn OF REAR ADMIRAL Dupont.

he death of Rear Admiral Samuel Frsncisk
Dupont Of the United States Navy. Hen
eft his home for a visit to the city of
about week since, and
Iuddenly expired on Friday morning last,
lbout Eve O'Clock, at the LaPierre House
he had been indisposed for several weeks
past, but his family and intimate friends|
did not view his illness Us of seri-
Gus character and were totally unprepar-|
ed for the sad event. On the morning inl
question his wife, who was with him,
found him lAboring under great oppres
sion from an affection Of the chest, andI
Immediately sent for a physician, but,
before his arrival, all that was mortal of
o great and good man had passed away.
The news Of his death soon reached hisI
home and this city, and as he was uni
verSally respected as q citizen andI
beloved as a friend, it east gloom!
of sorrow over the whole community.
Samuel Francis DUPONT was born atI
Bergen Point, n. j., on the twenty
seventh day of September A. D. 1903.
He was the grandson of Pierre Samuel
Dupont de Nemours, French econo-
mist and statesman, who was born in
Paris, December IA, 1889, and died in
Delaware, August 6 1917. DUPONT de
Nemours was an adherent of Quesnay and
an expounder of his doctrines. He was
the assistant of Turgot during his snort
tenure of the ministry of finance l774.Te.
Under the ministry of Vergennes he was
employ ed in framing the treaty of 1888,
in which the independence Of the United
States was formally recognized by Eng
land. In the constituent assembly in
1889 be advocated liberal principles, but
opposed the harsh measures of the reyolu'
tionists. After the fall of the Girondists he
was imprisoned. but was saved by the
revolution of the 9th Thermidor. In
1895 he repaired to the United States
and returning to France in 1909, became
q contributor to several periodicals anC
published one or two pamphlets on i'm
portant public matters. On the frs
overthrow of the empire he was appoint
ed Secretary Of the provisional govern.
ment On the return of Napoleon from
E,ba he left France forever, aud passed
the remainder of his life on the Brandy
wine, where two Of his sons, Irene anC
Victor, had years before established thei
manufactures.
Victor DUPONT made his first visit tt
America in 1887 as Secretary to tn,
French Ambassador, Count de Moustier
He came a second time in 1895 as Frencl
Consul at Charleston, s. O., where he re
sided four years and where his elder child
rem were born. He was for many years
prominent man in the State of Delaware
He took an active part in developing th
industry of the State, and perhaps tn
best monument to his memory, and t
that of his brother, may be found on tn
banks of the Brandywine, where they hav
left the mark of their we'll spent lives b
changing a wilderness into the seen
which 1t now presents.
The subject of this notice was the 80
of Victor DUPONT. At twelve years
age be was commissioned Midshipma
in the Navy, and sailed in 1917 on hi
first cruise in the frigste Franklin unde
Commodore Stewart He was for man
years employed in the ordinary routin
duties of his profession, but he neglecte
no opportunity to fit himself for an
services be might be called upon to per
form. III le45. beng then a Commal
der, be was ordered to the Pacific,
command of the frigate Congress, bearin
the broad penuant of Commodore Stool
ton, and during the Mexican war So
much active service on the Californi
coast. In February ls4s, he landed {
San Jose with one hundred marines an
sailors, and, defeating and dispensing
Mexican force FIVE times as numerou
rescued small party under Lieut.. He
wood, who had been beleagured in Il
mission house. In 1856 he attained II
rank of captain and in the succeedin
year was placed in command of Il
steam frlgate Minnesota, which conveye
the American Minister to China. Aft,
a cruise of two years in the China wateI
he. returned home, and on the first
January A. D. 1861 was placed in con
mand of the Philadelphia Navy Yarc
After the inauguration of Mr.. Lincoln h
was consulted by the Secretary of tb
Navy with reference to the occupation {
scentral hsrbor or depot on the souther
coast, and, having recommended Pc
Royal be was put in command of IL
South Atlantic blockading squadron, an
charged with the special duty of attacl
ing that point. He sailed from Fortre
Monroe on the a9th of October, 1851,
bis 6agship the Wabash, accompa ME
by a Feet of fifty saili comprising vesse
Of war, and transports conveying tt
land forces under Gen. T. W. Sherman
On November 4 and S the feet, aft,
having been scattered by a violent storm
rende5voused of Port Royal, and on ii
7th an attack was made upon two stron
forts on Hilton Head and Bay Poin
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