The Washington herald., 1911-10-03

was born October 9, 1889, at Richields,
three miles north of Frederick City, Fred
erick County, Maryland. The first six
teen years of his life were passed in
Frederick City at school, at st. John 8
College, and the Frederick Academy.
Through the influence of Hon. H. w.
Hoffman. NJ. c., he was appointed as act
ing midshipman September %. 1856; he
entered the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Md, and graduated June Is.
| 1860; the same day, June Is, 1850, he
was appointed midshipman by President
| Buchanan.
| August 81, 1861 he was promoted to
master by President Lincoln.
July 16, 1862, he was promoted to lieu
tenont by President Lincoln.
July %, 1866, he was promoted to lieu
| tenant commander by President Johnson.
/ June 10, 1874, he was promoted to COM
mander by President Grant
Promoted for Arctic Work.
After the successful voyage to the arc
| tic regions in 1884, to rescue Lieut.. A. w.
| Greely, L. S. A. he was promoted TO
the position of chief Of Bureau Of Equip
ment and Recruiting in the Navy Depart
ment by President Arthur. The promo
ton carried with it the temporary rank
of commodore, with its privileges.
! March 81, 1855, he was promoted to
captain by President Cleveland.
| During 1860 and 1861, until the out
break of hostilities between the North
and South, he served on board the United
States frigate Niagara on the Asiatic sta
| ton, which vessel carried back to Japan
| the first embassy sent by that country
to the Western powers; returning, he
conveyed the American Minister to the
mouth of the Red Sea: thence he returned
to Boston and proceeded Immediately to
the blockade of Charleston, s. c., and
brought the American ship Gen. Parkhill
| as a prize to Philadelphia in July, 1861.
Served Under FarraEut.
He joined the United States frigate
Potomac in August, 1861, and served on
board that ship, the gunboat Winona,
the sloop-of-war Monongahela, and the
United States ship Richmond, in the
Western Gulf squadron. under Admiral
Farragut, in 1861. 1862, 1863, during
the operations under his command on
the Mississippi River up to and includ-
ing the final opening of that river with
the capture of the fortifications at Port
Hudson La.
The presence of rebel vessels in the
Pacific Ocean. occurring coincidentally
with the release of a large naval force
used in the river, obliged the govern
ment to re-enforce the squadron in those
waters; accordingly, in January, 1864.
he joined the United States ship Wa
teree, reaching the Pacific in the fall
Of that year. and remaining until 1865
and 1866. In 1865 he landed with a
battalion of sailors and marines on the
middle Chinca Island against an oppos-
ing force of some 400 Chinese laborers,
who had risen in revolution and had
murdered the guards.
In the latter part of 1855 he landed a
ba attalion of men and marines at La
Union, San Salvador, and took charge
of the custom-house to protect Ameri-
can interests during the occupation OF
the town by revolutionary forces, until
the city was captured by the govern
ment troops in the early part of 1856.
He returned to the United States in
1866, and was ordered to the United
States frigate Sabine, then engaged in
the training of apprentice boys for the
navy; but was subsequently detached.
and ordered to the United States Naval
Academy, as instructor, during 1867,
1868. and 1869. In the latter year he
was ordered to the United States sloop>
Benicia, and served on board her on the
Fought in Korea.
In 1871 he was present at and partici-
pated with a landing party of sailors
and marines from the feet under Rear
Admiral John Rodgers in the assault,
capture and destruction of the Korean
fortifica tions, and the rout Of some 5000
men who manned them, on the Salee
river. Korea. He returned 20 the United
States in the fall of 1872. and was again
ordered 10 the Naval Academy as head
of the department Of modern languages,
and served during 1S73-74-75-76. In
September, 1876. he was ordered to COM
mand the United States sloop Essex, and
served in the North Atlantic and Brazil
squadrons 1ST7-7S-79.
On the passage to Brazil he touched on
the west coast of Africa, and while there
adjusted some disputes between the Ii
berian government and the native tribes
and defined the eastern boundary of the
republic: thence to the mouth of the
Congo to punish the natives for piracy
and destruction of an American schooner
at Sharks Point; from st. Paul Loando
to, Cape Frio, on the coast Of Brazil, he
ran line of deep-sea soundipgs by which
st. Helena was found to be the volcanic
crossed another mountain under the sur
face, which rose up two and a half miles.
about 800 miles west of st. Helena.
Sent to Antarctic.
In 1873 he was sent to the Island Of
Tristan d'Acunha to rescue the crew Of
an American ship wrecked on the west
ern side of the island. In 1879 he was
sent to the vicinity of the South Shetland
Islands, some 400 miles south of Cape
Horn, to rescue the crew of an American
sealing schooner, supposed to have been |
wrecked in those waters, but found the |
islands inaccessible on account of extern |
sive and dangerous ice foes extending off |
from the Antarctic continent 100 miles |
north Of the Shetland group. He returned |
to the. United States in. the fail of 1879 |
and was assigned to temporary duty in |
the Navy Department connected with the
allowance book of stores for naval YES.
sells.
About the middle OF the year 1880 he |
was ordered as inspector of the Second 1
lighthouse district, at Boston, and served |
there during 1SS1-S2-S3, when he was
again ordered to the Navy Department,
and placed in charge of the training
service in the navy, under the Bureau Of |
Equipment and Recruiting.
in the early part OF 1884 he was, de-
tached from The Navy Department and
ordered to command the relief expedition
of the Thetis. Bear, Alert, and
Loch Garry, to proceed to the Arctic
Ocean in search of the lost expedition to
Lady Franklin Bay under Lieut. w !