Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume IV, Part 18

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843- joint ed. cn; Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed; Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917, joint ed; Bostwick, Frederick, 1852- , joint ed; Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, joint ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1178

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John Knapp was married. 1759. to Ruth Gregory, of an old Danbury and Fairfield county family. Children: 1. Samuel. born about 1760, married Mary Lindsley. 2. Elizabeth. 1765, married Ezra Nichols. Jehu, November 17, 1767, married Lois 3. Wood. 4. Ruth, about 1770, married Joshua B. Bearss. 5 John, May 13, 1772. removed in 1812 to Harpersfield, New York, thence to Huntsburg, Ohio. where he died, July II, 1850: married (first). 1796. Lucy Merwin ; (second). February, 1829, Aibacinda Barnum. born in South East. Putnam counts, New York, May 12. 1790: he had eighteen children by his first wife. four by his second, and some of them are now living in Danbury. 6. Chloe, about 1774, married Joseph Mansfield. 7. Levi, see forward.

(VI) Levi, son of John (2) and Ruth (Gregory) Knapp, was born in Danbury. Con- necticut. May 1, 1777, and settled in New Milford, in the same state (p. 797. "New Milford History"). He married. in Dan- bury, Elizabeth Hamilton. Children: Gay- lord. married Julia Ferriss : William Albert. see forward: Eunice, married Ebenezer San- ford; Lucy Alma, died young; Levi Sidney, bern Tune IO. ISOI.

(VII) William Albert, son of Levi and Elizabeth ( Hamilton) Knapp, was born De- cember 25. 1797, and died at the age of seventy-six years. He was a prominent farmer in New Milford. where he spent his life. He was a member of the First Con- gregational Church, as was also his wife, and he was at first an adherent of the old Whig party, transferring his allegiance to the Re -- publican party upon its formation, ard served as tax collector for several years. He mar- ried (first) Lucy, born January 19. 1801, died April 18, 1846, daughter of Daniel Lines, of New Milford. Children: 1. William, now a lawyer in Denver, Colorado, was graduated from the Poughkeepsie Law School, and has been engaged in legal practice in the west

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since 1880. 2. George Sanford, see forward. Mr. Knapp married ( second , Eliza Sanford.

Daniel Lines, father of Lucy ( Lines) Knapp, resided in the eastern part of New Milford village, and died January 24, 1837. Ile married, November 20, 1,90, Hannah, born January 23, 1772, died August 8, 1856, daughter of Dr. Jonah Todd. Children : Mabel, born April 13, 1795. removed to Great Bend, Pennsylvania: Charlotte. born March 21, 1797, married Garidus Roberts: Lucy, born January 19, 1801, mentioned above ; Mercy, born June 30, 1806. married Alanson Canfield, who is still living ( 1911) at the age of one hundred and four years : Richard Daniel, born March 25. 1809: Oliver Todd, October 11, 1813. Joseph, father of Daniel Lines, came from New Haven in 1750 and settled in New Milford, where he died, July 29, 1792, in his sixtieth year. He married, September II, 1758, Phebe, who died August 23. 1825. daughter of Ebenezer Baldwin, an early settler in the northern part of New Milford, on what is now Poplar street. Chil- dren : Clarissa, born at New Milford, March 12, 1759; Reuben, January 21, 1761: Ann, June 9, 1763 : Daniel, mentioned above : Philo, January II, 1769, was the grandfather of Frederick A. Lines, secretary and treasurer of the Ansonia Lumber Company.

(VIII) George Sanford. son of William Albert and Lucy (Lines) Knapp, was born at New Milford, March 23. 1840. He spent his early years in his native town, attending the common schools until the age of four- teen years, then entered the high school and subsequently the academy at East Hampton, Massachusetts, where he studied for two terms. He then went to Fort Edward. New York, taught one term in the town of Coer- mans, New York, then returned to school and completed his studies. During this pe- riod he worked on the farm during the sum- mer months and taught in the winter tinie up to 1868, when he accepted a position as traveling salesman for a hardware firm, in which capacity he served thirty years, cover- ing twenty-seven states, Canada, New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia. During all this time and. in fact, throughout his life he has been a total abstainer from the use of liquor or tobacco. For the last fourteen years of this period he was also interested in the manu- facture of hardware, having an interest in the Coles Hardware Company. of Unionville, Connecticut, and was instrumental in bring- ing that business to Bridgeport in 1884. It was he who erected the building and financed the concern, which later became the Knapp & Coles Hardware Company, but owing to

a misunderstanding he resigned from this corporation, and during the following four years was engaged in various lines of busi- ness. He then returned and undertook the management of the concern, and under his conduct it had the two most successful years of its history. Ile then sold his interest and retired from the company. In 1895 he started the first photo-engraving and electrotyping company in Bridgeport, which he conducted several years, and then bought out the White metal goods business, later adding a small hardware specialty business, and still later the box business. The latter he still conducts in a successful manner, the plant being fitted up with the most modern improved machinery. He also has interests in the marble, rubber and timber lines. He is a member of the North Church, with which he has been con- nected since he was twenty-one years of age: has served in several offices, and has been a pupil and teacher in its Sunday school. Mr. Knapp married. August 17, 1872. Jane Au- gusta Humphrey, of Unionville, Connecticut, where she was born. They have one son : A. Carleton, born January 19, 1876, who was educated in the common and high schools. then attended Columbia College, receiving his diploma from the veterinary department of the medical school, and is now a veterinary surgeon connected with the health department of Bridgeport : he married Josie Silliman, and they have one daughter: Elizabeth Knapp.

Russell Humphrey, father of Jane Augusta (Humphrey) Knapp, was a prominent man- ufacturer of Unionville, which occupation he followed throughout the active years of his life. He married Amelia Driggs, who bore him ten children, of whom the following are living at the present time ( 1911) : Howard W .: Nellie, married Adelbert Sallou : Louise A .: Jane Augusta, mentioned above: Kath- erine; Carrie, married Harry Starr, at one time mayor of Rockford, Illinois, and also connected with the Winnebago Bank. Mi. Humphrey died at the age of sixty-two years. and his wife at the age of eighty-three.

The Pearne family originate

PEARNE from Rochester Bridge. district of London. and were "Cock-

neys" (or Londoners ). They belonged to the Church of England.

(I) Francis Pearne, a resident of England. married and had a son, William Nathaniel, see forward.

(II) Rev. William Nathaniel Pearne, son of Francis Pearne, was born in England. He came to this country about 1820, settled first in New York City, and was employed as a

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bookkeeper for the Black Ball Line of clipper ships. in 1825 he moved to New York Mills in central New York state, a cotton mill town in Oreida county, and he was connected with the cotton mills there. He was a Methodist minister for the remainder of his life. He married Hannah Hall, born in London, Eng- land, daughter of Thomas Ilall. She had several brothers who settled in the United States. Children: 1. William H., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, was also a member of the Christian commission and presiding elder stationed at Memphis, Ten- nessee, during the .reconstruction days in the south, and while there was for a time super- intendent of police and stamped out gambling in the city. 2. Nathaniel. 3. Thomas H., minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, a pioneer in Oregon, delegate from Oregon to the Republican National Convention in 1864, at which Abraham Lincoln was nomi- nated for president : he was connected with the Christian commission : after the civil war he was editor of the I'hig at Knoxville, Tennessee, for a time, and afterward United States consul at Kingston, Jamaica; he was the author of a book known as "Sixty-one Years of Itinerant Christian Life in Church and State." 4. Francis, died at the age of nine years. 5. Mary H. B., married Harmion Hubbard. 6. Harriet, married Edwin Hatch. 7. Benjamin Marshall, see forward. 8. John Wesley. 9. Hester, died at age of fourteen years. One child died in infancy.

(III) Benjamin Marshall, son of Rev. Will- iam Nathaniel Pearne, was born June 22. 1826. He is now living, retired, at Oxford, New York. He was a carriagemaker by trade and afterward held a government position in the United States navy yard at Brooklyn, New York. He married Emily Ann Swathel, born in New York City. August, 1826, daughter of William and Sarah Shipman (Clark) Swathel. Her father resided for a time at Middletown, Connecticut. Her brother, Will- iam Henry Swathel. resides at Hartford: her sister Sarah married Martin Estelow: her sister Jane married Asa P. Brockway. of Es- sex, Connecticut. Her brother. Jared Swathel. died at sen. Sarah Shipman ( Clark ) Swathel was a daughter of Jared Clark and grand- daughter of Colonel Edward Shipman, of Chester, Connecticut. Colonel Shipman was captain of a Saybrook company in the revolu- tion, the Sixth Company. Colonel Charles West's regiment (Seventh). He was also under the same colonel in the Nineteenth Regiment, Continental army, and took part in the battles of White Plains and Princeton. He was major in the same regiment in 1779

and colonel of the First Battalion under Gen- eral David Waterbury in 1781. Colonel Ed- ward Shipman was descended from Edward Shipman, the immigrant. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.

(IV) Judge Wesley Ulysses Pearne, son of Benjamin Marshall Pearne, was born April I, 1851, in New York City. He was edu- cated at Oxford Academy, Oxford, New York, and at the State Normal School, Cort- land, New York, where he was graduated in June, 1870, with teacher's certificate. In the fall of 1870 he entered Wesleyan University and graduated with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1874. He then began to study law in the office of Hon. Samuel L. Warner, of Middletown, and was admitted to the bar in 18,9. He began to practice immediately afterward at Middletown, Connecticut. open- ing an office in the Bank Block. He was clerk of the Middletown City Court from April, 1879, to April, 1895, when he was ap- pointed judge of the Middletown City Court, a position he has filled with conspicuous abil- ity to the present time. He was a member of the common council of Middletown from 1880 to 1883. He represented the town of Middletown in the general assembly in 1901. when he was house chairman of the com- mittee on incorporations, and in 1905. when he was house chairman of the committee on railroads. He has been a trustee of Wes- leyan University since 1905. He was elected a member of the board of education, Middle- town city school district, in 1880, and was a member of the board continuously until 1907. except from 1882 to 1886. and secretary of the board during the entire period. He has been county health officer since 1893. He enlisted in Company H. Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, January 12, 1875. as a private, was promoted from time to titne. and in 1882 was commissioned first lieutenant of Company H and captain in 1885. He resigned in 1898 after twenty-three years of service in the militia, being at the time the senior captain of his regiment. He is a mem- ber of the Connecticut State Bar Association. He is a prominent Frec Mason. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, of which he is past master. He was selected to give the historical address on the occasion of cele- brating the one hundred and fiftieth anniver- sary of the foundation of that lodge. He is a member and past high priest of Wash- ington Chapter. No. 6. Royal Arch Masons, of Middletown. He was grand high priest of Connecticut in 1900. He is a member of Columbia Council. No. o. Royal and Select Masters, and is thrice illustrious master of

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that body : member and past commander of Cyrene Commandery. No. 8. Knights Tem- plar, of Middletown, and in 1910 is deputy grand commander of Knights Templar in Connectieut. He has taken all the degrees in Free Masonry, including the thirty-second. He is director and secretary of the Masonic Building Association. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon, college fraternity, and of the Sons of the American Revolution, and trustee and secretary of the Kent Literary Club. In religion he is independent, but de- votes much of his time to music, and for thirty-one years was organist of the First Congregational Church. Judge Pearne has won distinction in so many different fields of activity that his career presents some of the most remarkable features. The multitude of positions of trust and honor that he has filled. with so much ability came to him as a tribute to his ability. He has been singu- larly useful as a citizen. He married. April 25, 1883. Harriette Cornelia Arnold. born April 30. 1853, daughter of Charles G. and Betsey (Smith) Arnold. of Middletown. de- scendant of the Penfield family of Portland, Conneetient, a member of Wadsworth Chap- ter, Daughters of the American Revolution. They have had one child, Dorothea Arnold, born May 16, 1887, died November 14, 1898.

SPRAGUE Edward Sprague, of Upway, England. county of Dorset. was a fuller by trade, who died in England in 1614. By his wife Christiana there were children : Ralph. mentioned be- low, Alice, Edward. Richard, Christopher and William. The three sons. Ralph. Richard and William. arrived in Naumkeag ( Salem), Mas- sachusetts Colony, either in 1628, with Gov- ernor Endicott's party, or in the following year with a party of independent gentlemen. They were employed by Governor Endicott to make explorations: and were active in the set- tlement of Charlestown, and the making of a peace with the Indians between the Mystic and Charles rivers.

(II) Ralph Sprague. borr in England. about 1603, was about twenty-five years old when he came to this country. He died about September. 1650, at Malden. Massachusetts. leaving a widow. Joan or Joanna, who mar- ried Edward Converse, of Woburn. Septem- ber 9. 1662. On September 28. 1630, Ralph Sprague was one of a jury which seems to have been the first one impaneled in Massa- chusetts. He was a lieutenant in the train band. His children were: Jonathan, who died in Malden. 15 (6). 1650: John, men- tioned below ; Richard; Samuel, born about

1631, died October 3. 1696, aged 65 (married Sarah Hasse, Malden, January 5, 1669) ; and Mary, who married Daniel Edmonds.

( III) Captain John Sprague, son of Ralph. born in England, 1624, came to this country with his father. He settled finally at Malden, Massachusetts, and died there June 25. 1602. aged 68. Ile married, May 2, 1651, Lydia Goffe, who died ( widow ) December 11, 1715. Children, born at Malden : John. 9. ( 1). 1731- 52, killed December 16, 1703. by falling tree. aged 51 ; 9-6: Lydia, married John Green- land: Jonathan, born August, 1656, died March 8. 1730, aged 75: Samuel, born 21 ( 12), 1658-59; Mary, born 13 (2), 1661 : Ed- ward, mentioned below: Phineas, born (12), 1665-66, died at Malden, August 29, 1736, aged 70: Deborah, born 21 (7), 1670; Sarah. born (12), 16;2; and Hannah ( ?), married Samuel Stower.

(IV) Captain Edward Sprague, son of Cap- tain John Sprague, born about 1663. died April 14. 1715. aged 52. He married, at Mal- den, November 2.1. 1693, Dorothy, daughter of John Lane. His widow administered his estate : she died March 20, 1727. Children. born at Malden: William, mentioned below ; Anna, born March 20, 1696-97: Dorothy, Sep- tember 9. 1693: Timothy, May 33, 1700: Eb- enezer. November 6. 1701 : Jemima. Novem- ber 3. 1703: Lydia. August 26, 1705: Heze- kiah. May 16, 1707 ( ?) ; Phoebe, November 17. 1709.

(V) William Sprague, son of Captain Ed- ward Sprague, born at Malden. September 4. 1695. died there November 21. 1747, aged 52. He married there. January 1. 1717, Dorothy, daughter of Joseph Floyd, of Lynn. and Eliz- areth. Children, born at Malden: Mary. De- cember 25. 1718, married Thomas Waite ; Ed- ward. January 24. 1719-20: Joseph. October 26, 1722 (of Leicester, 1780) : Nathan, Oc- tober 24, 1724: John, September 29, 1728; Elizabeth. May 12. 1736: Dorothy, February 6. 1737-38: Jonathan. April 7, 1739: Israel, mentioned below.

(VI) Israel Sprague, son of William Sprague, was born at Malden, October 13. 1741. He removed from Malden with other Spiaques to Leicester, Massachusetts. where. March 25. 1762. he married ( first) Phebe Ha- sey, of Chelsea, Massachusetts. born Febru- ary 5. 1741. daughter of Samuel and Sarah ( Upham) Hasey ; she died at Athol, June 13, 1782. He settled at Athoi in 1762 (the his- tory of Charlestown states that he was of Ath- ol in 1780), and lived there until about 1784. when he located at the adjacent town of Ger- ry, now Phillipston. He died at Phillipston. November 21. 1823, aged 82. He married

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(second) at Templeton, October 16. 1783, Ruth ( Larned) Fisk, widow of John Fisk, whom she had married at Templeton, July 3, 1777. She died at Athol, February 27, 1813. aged 57. In 1790 the only Israel Sprague in Massachusetts, according to the first fed- eral census, was Israel of Gerry, and he had in his family two males over sixteen, one un- der that age. and four females, which corre- sponds with his then family. Children of first family, born at Athol: Dorothy. December 16. 1762, died at Athol, May 4, 1844, aged eighty-one years : Hasey Floyd, mentioned be- low ; Esther, October 28. 1768. Children of second wife: Israel, September 21. 1784: died May 23, 1795 : Ruth, baptized at Phillips- ton. June 22. 1789: child, born and died at Phillipston in 1790: William, died at Phillips- ton, May 7, 1827. aged thirty-six years. Wil- liani's father deeded the farm at Phillipston to him, September 10. 1821, conditioned on his supporting himself ( Israel) and Dorothy (daughter of Israel). as long as they lived. Israel and Phebe of Athol deeded land to John Lucas of Boston, May 2, 1768.

(VII) Hasey Floyd Sprague, son of Israel Sprague, was born at Athol, November 1, 1765, and baptized ( Asa Flaud) November 3, 1765. He married at Athol. May 8, 1788, Mary Newhall ( Newell ). born June 28, 1768, died June 5. 1838, daughter of Hiram New- hall. of Leicester. and his first wife, Mary Sea- ver. Hiram Newhall was born February 21, 1738. Jonathan (5) : Thomas (4) : Thomas (3) : Thomas (2) : Thomas (1). Hiram died September 3. 1816. Mary Seaver was mar- ried January 21. 1762, and died February 5. 1769. aged 29. Between 1795 and 1798 Hasey Sprague moved to Stratton, Vermont, and acquired several parcels of land. His farm was known as Sprague Hill, and was situated at Stratton Gore. between Stratton and Som- erset. He died in 1844. and was buried in Stratton Gore cemetery, as was his wife Mary. Children: Joshua, mentioned below ; Seaver,

born July 26. 1793, at Phillipston, died ; Lucy, born November 5. 1795, at Athol, Mas- sachusetts, married at Stratton, Vermont, Daniel Grant. November 15, 1818, died -; Jerusha. born December 5. 1798. Stratton, Vermont, married Naham Pike, of Western Massachusetts, August 21, 1814, at Stratton: Israel. born November 12, 1801. Stratton, Vermont, died March 20, 1863, in Brattleboro Retreat. married Mary -, and had two sons born at Stratton, Vermont : Edwin, November 16, 1827. and Israel Bar- nard Baldwin, November -- , 1836. and a daughter. Mary Ann Nancy. June 30, 1838 (?) ; wife Mary died on or about June II,

1842, at Somerset, Vermont; Hiram, born September 7. 1806, Stratton, Vermont.

(VIII) Joshua Sprague, son of Ilasey Floyd Sprague, was born at Phillipston, Mas- sachusetts, January 31, 1791, and died at North Adams, Massachusetts, where he moved from Wardsboro, Vermont, about 1836, on November 10, 1862. He married at Wards- boro, Vermont, January 1, 1815 (intention dated December 11, 1814. at Phillipston, Mass.), Betsey Cummings, daughter of David Cummings ( see Cummings ). The Phil- lipston records call her of Wardsboro, Ver- mont, in the intention of marriage (p. 87, printed records). Betsey Cummings was born at Petersham. Massachusetts, October 30, 1793, and died at North Adams, Massa- chusetts, August 30, 1866. He went to Strat- ton with his father and family, and about 1829 went to Wardsboro, the next town, where he had a farm. In 1836 he deeded his farm to Marcus White, and moved with his family to North Adams, Massachusetts, where he was a builder.

Children. born at Stratton, Vermont: I. Lucy E., April 7. 1816, married Henry Whit- ney, of Stratton, and had: Henry J .. George, Charles, Martin, Seva. Ada and Marv. died at North Adams. 2. Martha L., born Novem- ber 21, 1817. married Dr. Justin Smith, and had Williametta and others. 3. George Washi- ington. March 11. 1820. died November 22. 1855. at Springfield. Massachusetts ( killed by railroad train) : children: George N., Mary and Egbert. 4. Almira J., born February 19. 1822, died at North Adams, married ( secondi William Hurd, and had several children. 5. Seaver Austin, born October 27. 1823, died in New York City, about 1893. 6. Augustin Newell. born August 22. 1826, probably died about 1891, at Atchison. Kansas; child, Bir- die. 7. Elvira Betsey Ann, born April 23. 1828. married Samuel Parker, and died at North Adams. Born at Wardsboro. Vermont. near Stratton: 8. Lucena M .. horn February 3. 1830; died at North Adams. 9. David Cum- mings, mentioned below. 10. Joshua Martin. born September 23. 1835, married Helen Ly- ons, and had: Walter, Ralph J., Helen. Eve- lyn, Henry H. and Stella.

(IX) David Cummings Sprague, son of Joshua Sprague, was born July 3. 1833. at Wardsboro. Vermont. He was superintend- ent of a hat factory at Milford, Connecticut, and afterward lived in the west, where he went at the time of the death of his wife in 1865. Returning East, while in business in Rahway, New Jersey, he was instantly killed by a railroad train. He married. at New Ha- ven, Connecticut. 1852, Frances Julia King.

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who died suddenly in 1865. at Milford, Con- necticut. daughter of Franklin King, born Au- gust 25, 1798, and Polly ( Backus) King, born October 23, 1799, and married. September 12. 1822. Her father lived at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and was foreman of a cotton mill. He had three brothers. Children of Franklin and Polly King: 1. Nancy Ann King, born November 20. 1823, married ( first ) John Edwards, of Goshen, died at New Haven, and ( second ) December 16, 1832, Cor- nelius Piatt, and had : Cornelia. December 26, 1853, married (first) July 12. 1873. Hiram Gay, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and ( sec- ond) about 1886. Edgar Richards, of Ver- mont ; Florence Platt. April 12. 1855. died August 1. 1855: Jennie Platt. December 25, 1857, married (first) Thomas Matthews. an Englishman, and ( second ) John Holtz. 2. Phebe MI., born April 4, 1827 ; died September 10, 1827. 3. Caroline A., born September 3, 1829, married Asa Weeks. a well-known spir- itualist, and lived at Worthington Hills, and later at Onset Bay. Wareham, Massachusetts, where his wife died, leaving a son, John Weeks. 4. Frances Julia, married David Cum- mings Sprague, as stated above. 5. Laura, married Robert Cunningham, of New Haven. Connecticut. Children of David Cummings Sprague: 1. Seaver, died young. 2. Frank Julian, mentioned below. 3. Charles May, born at Milford, Connecticut. April 30. 1860. (X) Frank Julian Sprague, son of David Cummings Sprague. was born at Milford, Connecticut, July 25. 1857. He received a high school education at North Adams, Mas- sachusetts. In 1874 he won the competitive appointment to the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, and graduated in 1878 with high rank in engineering, physics. mathemat- ics and architecture. He then took a special course in electrical work, and developed strong inventive faculties. In 1878 he was ordered to United States Ship "Richmond." bound for the Chinese Station, and was spe- clal correspondent of the Boston Herald dur- ing this cruise at the time of General Grant's visit to China and Japan. He returned home in 1880, and carried on electrical experiments at the Stevens Institute Shops and the Brook- lyn Navy Yard. He was then ordered to duty on the training ship "Minnesota." where he made the first attempts to introduce the in- candescent electric light into the naval sery- ice. Later he continued his experiments at the Torpedo Station at Newport. Ile was or- dered to the U. S. S. "Lancaster." of the Med- iterranean squadron, and subsequently as- signed to duty at the Crystal Palace Exhibition at Sydenham, England. He was the only

American on the jury, and the youngest mem- ber of it. Among liis associates were Horace Darwin, Captain de Abney and Professors Frankland, W. Gryll Adams and Fleming Jen- kin, all famous scientists. He was made sec- retary of his section, and organized and con- ducted experiments on dynamo machines. elec- tric lights and gas engines. In his interest in his work he overstayed his leave, and was possibly saved from a court-martial by his re- port to the Navy Department, which was pub- lished by the Bureau of Intelligence and re- ceived high commendation.

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