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HOTCHKISS, Lucius W., M.D .:
Born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31, 1859; A. B., Columbia, 1881; M. D., Col- lege Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1884; assistant surgeon at Bellevue Hos- pital since 1889; at Roosevelt Hospital, 1892-95; attending surgeon Colored Hos- pital, 1890-96; attending surgeon at J. Hood Wright Hospital since 1895; assist- ant demonstrator of anatomy at Physi-
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cians and Surgeons, 1890-97; instructor of surgery since 1897; professor of anatomy Woman's Medical College of New York Infirmary, 1889-99. Address, 37 West 48th St., New York.
HOTCHKISS, William H .:
Lawyer; born in Whitehall, N. Y., in 1864; graduated from Hamilton College in 1886; having been admitted to the bar in 1888, he practiced at Auburn, N. Y., until 1890, when he removed to Buffalo; in 1897 he prepared a monogram on primary elec- tion laws, which led to a movement for better primary laws in New York; he drafted the present primary election law of 1899; was appointed referee in bank- ruptcy for the Buffalo (N. Y.) district in July, 1898, and he still holds that office; in July, 1899, he was chosen chairman of the executive committee of the National Association of Referees in Bankruptcy, and, as such, made an investigation into the operation of the law, which resulted in an elaborate report, published in March, 1900, and in the Ray amendatory bill now pending in Congress; he con- tributed an article on "Bankruptcy Laws" to the Review in November, 1898. Ad- dress, Buffalo, N. Y.
HOTTENROTH, Adolph C .:
Lawyer; attended public schools .of New York; graduated from College of the City of New York and New York University; studied law and admitted to practice; be- came member of firm of Gumbleton & Hottenroth, since dissolved, the present firm being A. C. and F. W. Hottenroth; has always favored public improve- ments; 1894, member of Constitutional Convention; 1897-1901, member of City Council from the Borough of the Bronx. Address, Brooklyn, N. Y.
HOUGHTON, James Warren:
Jurist; born Corinth, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1856; graduated Canandaigua Academy, 1876; studied law and admitted to the bar at Rochester, N. Y., 1879; married Eliza- beth M. Smith, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 1884; county judge of Saratoga County, 1888-99; resigned and appointed to Su- preme bench by Governor Roosevelt, Dec., 1899; elected on Republican ticket, 1900, Fourth Judicial District, for full term of fourteen years, as justice of the Supreme Court of New York. Designated, Sept. 1903, to serve as associate justice Ap- pellate Division. Third Department. Resi- dence, 601 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
HOVEY, Edward Hamlin:
Manufacturer, inventor; born Ypsilanti, Mich., Sept. 2, 1861; graduated from High School. Jackson, Mich .; pioneer in the economical production of steam power on chemically scientific lines, with absence of any objectionable smoke, using any
kind of fuel; inventor of the Hydo-Carbon system having an international reputa- tion, which after being installed on the former U. S. Army transport, and now fast mail steamship Zelandia, though twenty years old, broke her record by twenty-two hours between San Francisco and Honolulu; commended to Prince Hen- ry and Emperor William, of Germany, through courtesy of Howard Gould, bring- ing forth a "command"; recommended to the War Department by Mr. Gould, and Colonel John Jacob Astor, for whom in- stallations have been made, by the Steam Boiler Equipment Company, of New York, of which he is president; director and officer in other corporations. Address, Gleason Building, New York.
HOWARD, Bronson:
Playwright; born in Detroit, Mich., in 1842; educated in New Haven; after leav- ing school entered journalism, working on the New York Mail and the Tribune; be- gan to write plays while still engaged on newspaper work, and, 1870, a comedy en- titled "Saratoga" was accepted by Au- gustin Daly; this had a long and success- ful run; in 1873 he wrote "Lillian's Lost Love," produced in Chicago, but not prov- ing a success he revised it, changing its name to "The Banker's Daughter," pro- duced at the Union Square Theatre, New York, and ran for over one hundred and fifty nights; in 1878 he wrote "Old Love Letters" : "Young Miss Winthrop," 1882; "One of
Our Girls," 1885; "Met by
Chance," " 1887; "The Henrietta," 1887; "Shenandoah," 1889; "Aristocracy," 1892. Married a sister of Charles Wyndham, the English comedian. Address, care Samuel French, 24 West 22d St., New York.
HOWARD, John Raymond:
Publisher and book editor; born Brook- lyn, N. Y., May 25, 1837; graduated from University of Rochester, 1857 A. B .; 1860, A. M .; traveled in America, 1858; instruc- tor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1859; traveled and studied in Europe, 1859-61; served during Civil War as cap- tain and aide-de-camp, U. S. Volunteers, Aug., 1861, to Feb., 1865; editor of reports with Adelberg and Raymond, mining en- gineers, 1865; editorial writer on New York Times and New York Examiner and Chronicle, 1866-67; since Dec., 1867, in publishing business (J. B. Ford & Co., and Fords. Howard & Hulbert), New York. Author of "Henry Ward Beecher: A Study." and many articles, chiefly in The Outlook, New York; has edited "Patriotic Addresses," by H. W. Beecher; "Bible Studies," by H. W. Beecher; "Educational Nuggets," "Patriotic Nuggets." Historical Nuggets." and, with T. J. Ellinwood, "A Treasury of Illustration," by H. W. Beecher. Married Susan R. Merriam, of Springfield. Mass., 1871. Residence, Mont- clair, N. J .; office, 78 Fifth Ave., New York.
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HOWARD, Wendell Stanton:
Author and editor; born in New York, Nov. 27, 1865, of early Virginia ancestry; preliminary education at home, later went abroad for several years for special study in art, architecture and archaeology; in 1893 became editor The Art Interchange, which he resigned in 1903 to undertake editorial work on "Notable Pictures in American Private Collections" (Merrill & Baker). Was associate editor of "Music of the Modern World," D. Appleton & Co., 1899. While carrying on editorial work he found time to undertake musical and dramatic reviewing, which led him to write several plays and adaptations; one founded on the character of Peg Woffing- ton has been played throughout the country; is also musician, and has written a number of songs and two operettas; though a contributor to various periodi- cals much of his work has been done anonymously. He is unmarried. Resi- dence, 80 Madison Ave .; oluce, 9 and 11 East 16th St., New York.
HOWE, Lucien:
Physician; born Standish, Me., Sept. 18, 1848; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1870; Long Island College Hospital, Brook- lyn, 1871; Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, New York, 1872; professor of oph- thalmology, University of Buffalo; sur- geon in charge of Buffalo Eye and Ear Infirmary; member of Royal Microscopic- al Society, England. Address, 183 Dela- ware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
HOWE, Marshall Avery:
Botanist; was born at Newfane, Wind- ham County, Vt., June 6, 1867; son of Marshall Otis and Gertrude (Dexter) Howe; fitted for college at Glenwood Classical Seminary, West Brattleboro, Vt .; received the degree of Ph.B. from the University of Vermont in 1890; sub- master of High School, Brattleboro, Vt., 1891; instructor in cryptogamic botany in the University of California, 1891-96; pur- sued graduate studies at Columbia Uni- versity, 1896-98, receiving degree of Ph.D. from this institution in 1898. Curator of the herbarium of Columbia University, 1899-1901; assistant curator of the New York Botanical Garden, 1901 to date; fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Botanical Society of America and of the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology; editor of Torreya, organ of the Torrey Botanical Club, and associate editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botan- ical Club. Has written various papers and monographs on botany. making a specialty. in recent years, of studies of the marine algae. Member of the col- lege fraternities Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Delta Theta; unmarried. Address, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York.
HOWELL, John Adams:
Rear-admiral, U. S. Army; born in New York; appointed from New York, Sept. 27, 1854; Naval Academy, 1854-58; at- tached to sloop Macedonian, Mediter- ranean Squadron, 1858-59; store-ship Sup- ply, 1861; commissioned as lieutenant, April 18, 1861; attached to steam-sloop Ossipee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-63; steam-sloop Ossipee, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863- 65; participated in the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864; commissioned as lieu- tenant-commander, March 3, 1865; steam- er De Soto, special service, 1866; steamer De Soto, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866- 67; Naval Academy, 1868-72. Commis- sioned as commander, March 6, 1872; coast survey, 1872-74; Naval Academy, 1875-79; commanding Adams, Pacific Station, 1879- 81; assistant bureau of ordnance, 1881; Navy Yard, Washington, 1882-84; pro- moted to captain, March, 1884; member of advisory board, 1884-88; commanding At- lanta, special service, 1888; Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90; president of Steel Board, July, 1891, to Feb., 1893; com- mandant of Navy Yard, Washington, Feb., 1893, to May, 1896; commissioned com- modore, Sept., 1895; commandant of League Island Navy Yard, June, 1896, to- Jan., 1898; Feb., 1898, commander-in- chief, European Station, United States ship San Francisco; commanding Patrol Squadron from April, 1898, to Oct., 1898; commissioned as rear-admiral, Aug. 10, 1898; president of Naval Retiring Board, Nov., 1898, to 1902; retired, March 16, 1902. Address, Warrenton, Va.
HOWELLS, John Mead:
Architect; born Cambridge, Mass., 1868; graduated from Harvard, 1891, and stud -. ied profession six years in Europe; re- ceived the French government diploma, 1897; has since practiced in New York; member of Société des Architects Diplo- més par le Government. Address, Wood- bridge Building, 100 Wiliam St., New York.
HOWELLS, William Dean:
Author; born in Ohio, 1837; son of Wil- liam Cooper Howells, a printer; helped his father in the printing office when quite young, and in 1850 obtained a position as compositor on a newspaper; in 1856 be- came a correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette; 1859, was made news editor of the State Journal; 1860, he published his: first book, "Poems of Two Friends"; in 1861 was appointed United States con- sul at Venice. where he remained until 1865; upon his return he became an edi- torial writer on the New York Times and a regular contributor to the New York Nation; 1872-81 editor of the Atlantic Monthly; 1886-91 editorial contributor to. Harper's Magazine; subsequently editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Author of
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"Their Wedding Journey," 1871; "A
Chance Acquaintance," 1874; "Dr. Breen's Practice," 1881; "A Woman's Reason," 1884; "April Hopes," 1888; "The Quality of Mercy," 1893; "The Landlord at Lion's Head," 1897; "The Kentons," 1902; "Ques- tionable Shapes," 1903, etc. Address, 48 West 59th St., New York.
HOWLAND, Alfred Cornelius:
Artist; born at Walpole, N. H., Feb. 12, 1838; son of Aaron Prentiss and Huldah (Burke) Howland; he is a descendant of John Howland and John Carver, of May- flower fame; his grandfather, Rev. John Howland, was a graduate of Harvard College; Alfred Howland was graduated at the Walpole Academy in 1855, then went to Boston to study art, but two years later removed to New York City, where he devoted his time for three years to drawing on stone in a lithographic es- tablishment; thence went to Europe and spent a year in the Academy of Dussel- dorf, two years in the studio of Profes- sor Flamm, in that city, and subsequently became a pupil of Lambinet, in Paris, where he spent two years; returned, in 1865, to New York; was elected to the Artist Fund Society in 1874, the Century Club in 1867; was made an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1874, and on the merits of the painting "Driving a Bargain" (now in the Layton Gallery in Milwaukee), was made a National Acad- emician in 1882. Among his important works may be mentioned "On the Road to Senlis" (France), "A Morning Stroll," "Monday Morning" "A Pastoral," "The Pot Boiler" (exhibited at Munich), "Fourth of July Parade" (exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition), and the "Yale Fence," purchased by Chauncey M. Depew and presented by him to the gymnasium of Yale University; makes a specialty of landscapes and genre sub- jects, having a preference for quaint New England characters; was married, Jan. 26, 1871, to Clara Ward, of New York City, daughter of Oliver Delancey and Emily . (Potter) Ward. Summer residence, The Roof-Tree, Williamstown, Mass .; ad- dress, 318 West 57th St., New York.
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HOXIE, Richard L .:
Major, U. S. Army; born in New York; appointed from Iowa; graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant, June, 1868; served at Willet's Point, New York, 1868 to 1870; promoted to first lieutenant, 1870; assistant engi- neer on the public works in Boston har- bor Mass., 1870 to 1872; under orders of Lieutenant Wheeler as assistant engi- neer on Western explorations, 1872 to 1874; chief engineer of the District of Columbia, 1874 to 1878; assistant to Major Lydeckr, 1882 to 1884; promoted captain, 1882; in charge of various river and harbor improvements, surveys, etc., in Georgia, Florida and Alabama, 1884 to 1889; in
command of engineer company since Jan., 1889, and instructor of military engineer- ing in School of Application, Willet's Point, N. Y., since Feb., 1889; major, March 31, 1895. Address, 812 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.
HOYE, Stephen M .:
Lawyer and railroad president; born at Mount Carmel, Conn., July 19, 1860, his parents being Francis Hoye and Eliza- beth McGrail Hoye; the family on the father's side are direct descendants of Sir Isaac Hoye, of Suffolk, England; the family settled subsequently in Ireland, and came to America in the early part of the eighteenth century; an uncle, Thomas Hoye, was a well known poet and phy- sician, and professor of physics in St. John College, Oxford. On the maternal side was Bishop McGuire, who had a con- troversy with the Church of England Bishop on the Irish Church, of which Daniel O'Connell was the referee, and which was decided in favor of the Catho- lic Church. Stephen Hoye was educated by a private tutor and at the crossroads school in Connecticut, where he gradu- ated as a mechanical engineer; as an en- gineer he was employed in the Cheshire Watch Works while preparing for his admission to the law school at Yale, from which he was graduated in 1888; before entering the practice of law he invented several contrivances in connection with the Winchester repeating rifle, and had constructed almost everything from a watch to a locomotive. He removed to Brooklyn for the practice of his law pro- fession, and at once became conspicuous by his legal attacks against the "L" roads for damages to property along the line; in almost every instance he won a vic- tory and has never been reversed by the Court of Appeals; is largely interested in the New Jersey and Staten Island Rail- road Company, of which he is the presi- dent; the road has been completed; he is a member of the Montauk and Colum- bian Clubs of Brooklyn, and is identi- fied with several fraternal organizations; in 1891 he was married to Miss Rose C. Kerren, of Brooklyn; their children are Stephen R. M., Wilbur Grant and Ste- phanie Johnson. Address, Brooklyn, N. Y.
HOYT, Colgate:
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Banker; born Cleveland, O., 1849; in 1882 made government director of the Union Pacific: 1884, company director; di- rector of Oregon & Transcontinental and Oregon Railway and Navigation Co., of Northern Pacific; first vice-president of Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway; is connected with other railway and finan- cial enterprises; member of Union League, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, and other New York clubs. Address, 36 Wall St., New York.
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HOYT, George W .:
Deputy manager in New York for the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company; is a descendant of an old Colonial family; was born at Stamford, Conn., June 19, 1856; he entered the ser- vice of the Liverpool, London and Globe at the age of fifteen years, 1871, and was appointed assistant deputy manager at New York at the age of twenty-two years, 1878, and became deputy manager on the retirement of Mr. Pulsford in 1887. Ad- dress, 45 William St., New York.
HOYT, Ralph W .:
Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Army; born in and appointed from New York; was grad- uated from Military Academy and pro- moted to second lieutenant, 1872; served in Texas on frontier duty, 1872 to 1876, and at Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, 1876 to 1878, being engaged in the capture of a Sioux band in 1877; promoted first lieu- tenant, Jan., 1879; regimental quarter- master, 1879 to May, 1886; at Bismarck, Dakota, June, 1886, to Aug., 1887; in gar- rison at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., 1887; captain, Sept. 19, 1890; major, Tenth In- fantry, May 16. 1899; lieutenant-colonel, Fourteenth Infantry, May 28, 1902; trans- ferred to Tenth Infantry, Oct. 18, 1902. Address, Adjutant General's Department, Manila, P. I.
HUBBARD, Elbert:
Author, journalist, lecturer; born in Bloomington, Ill., 1859; graduate of the University of Hard Knocks; Ph.D. from Auditorium Annex; A. M. from Tufts .; editor The Philistine; proprietor of The Roycroft Shop, devoted to making de luxe editions of the classics. Author of "No Enemy but Himself," "Little Journeys to Homes of Good Men and Great," "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Au- thors," "Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women," "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen," "Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Paint- ers," "Ali Baba of East Aurora," " "AS It Seems to Me," "A Message to Garcia," "Time and Chance," "The Legacy." "Forbes of Harvard," "One Day," " A Tale of the Prairies." Residence, East Aurora, N. Y.
HUBBARD, Ralph K .:
Comptroller of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York; was born at Durham, Conn., Dec. 6, 1862; he was educated in the common schools, and entered the office of the Provident Sav- ings as office boy in 1883; he passed through the different departments and was appointed assistant secretary in 1893. and comptroller in Jan .. 1901. Address, 346 Broadway, New York.
HUBBARD, Socrates:
Lieutenant commander, U. S. Navy; born in New York; appointed an acting- midshipman at Naval Academy, Nov. 20, 1861; graduated, 1865; Swatara (third rate), West India Squadron, 1865-67; pro- moted to ensign, Dec. 1, 1866; Guerriere (second rate), flagship, South American Squadron, 1867-68; promoted to master, March 12, 1868; commissioned as lieuten- ant, March 29, 1869; Nipsic (fourth rate), Darien Expedition, 1869-71; Omaha (sec- ond rate), S. P. Station, 1873-75; Naval Academy, 1876-80; promoted to lieuten- ant commander, Oct., 1879; Pensacola, Pacific Station, 1879-82; Naval Observa- tory, 1882; torpedo instruction, 1883; equipment duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1883-85; Powhatan, special service, 1885- 86; retired, June 18, 1888. . Address, 21 Chestnut St., Englewood, N. J.
HUBBARD, Thomas H .:
Lawyer; born Hallowell, Me .; graduate Bowdoin College and Albany Law School. Served in the field through the civil war in various grades up to colonel and brevet brigadier general. Former first vice-pres- ident Southern Pacific Company and pres- ident of several affiliated railroad com- panies. Now commander Military Order of the Loyal Legion, New York Com- mandery. Vice-president Army and Navy Club of New York. President New Eng- land Society of New York. President Alumni Association Albany Law School. Trustee Bowdoin College (LL.D., Bow- doin) ; president Pacific Improvement Com- pany. Chairman Board of Directors In- ternational Banking Corporation; chair- man executive committee American Light and Traction Company; director National Bank of Commerce, New York; National Shoe and Leather Bank, New York; Equitable Trust Company, New York; Wabash Railroad Company; Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad Company, and various other corporations. Member of Union League, Metropolitan, Century, Re- publican, Riding, Lawyers', Down Town and other clubs. Address, 25 Broad St .; residence, 16 West 58th St., New York.
HUBBELL, Henry W .:
Colonel, U. S. Army; born in and ap- pointed from New York; private Com- pany H, Seventh New York State Militia, April 17, 1861; discharged, June 3, 1861; second lieutenant. Fourth New York In- fantry, Dec. 4, 1861; honorably mustered out, Oct. 4, 1863; second lieutenant, First Artillery, June 18, 1867; first lieutenant, Nov. 17, 1873; captain, Aug. 7, 1889; major, Fourth Artillery, Aug. 10, 1900; lieutenant colonel, Artillery Corps, June 18, 1902; colonel, 1903. Address, Manila, P. I.
HUBBY, Lester Mead:
Physician; descended from English an- cestors, who came to this country about
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the middle of the seventeenth century and who played an active part in Colo- nial and Revolutionary times; born in Cleveland, O., Nov. 22, 1871; son of Frank Winfield and Katherine Maria (Germain) Hubby; attended public schools and pri- vate military academies; 1889-90, at Le- high University; 1890-93, at Cornell, grad- uating with Ph.B. degree; 1893-95, at Western Reserve Medical School; 1895-96, at New York University Medical College, graduating with M. D. degree in June, 1896; 1896-98, on house staff of Harlem Hospital. Since then in active practice; attending physician in children's diseases at Bellevue Hospital Dispensary; assist- ant surgeon at Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in the nose and throat depart- ment; member of the following societies and clubs: Fellow of the New York Acad- emy of Medicine; member of the County Medical Society; member of the Medical Society of Greater New York, New York Sigma Chi Alumni Association, Cornell University Club, New York Athletic Club; in politics a Republican. Summer home, Twilight Park. Catskills; city address, 40 West 84th St., New York.
HUFFCUT, Ernest Wilson :
Director of the college of law and dean of the faculty of law, Cornell University, since 1903; born Kent, Conn., Nov. 21, 1860; prepared for college at Afton (N. Y.) Union School; entered Cornell in fall of 1880; graduated from Cornell College of Arts and Sciences in 1884 and from Cornell Law School in 1888; 1884-85, private secre- tary to President White, of Cornell; 1885- 88, instructor in English in Cornell Uni- versity; 1888-90, in practice at Minneapo- lis, Minn., as lawyer; 1890-92, professor of law at Indiana University; 1892-93, profes- sor of law at Northwestern University; 1893 to date, professor of law at Cornell University; is member American Bar As- sociation and New York State Bar Asso- ciation; is a manager of Craig Colony for Epileptics. Sonyea, N. Y. Author of "The Law of Agency" (second edition), 1901; "Cases on Agency," 1896; "The Law of Negotiable Instruments," 1898; "American Cases on Contract" (with E. H. Wood- ruff), second edition, 1900; editor of Amer- ican edition of Anson on Contract, 1895; author also of numerous addresses and articles on legal topics and international law. Address, Ithaca, N. Y.
HUGHES, Aaron Konkle:
Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy; born in New York State; appointed acting midshipman from New York, Oct. 20, 1838; made first cruise in the Pacific Ocean, on board the frigate Constitution, flagship of Commo- dore Alexander Clayton, Captain Daniel Turner commanding, from Jan., 1839, until Nov., 1841; in Feb., 1842. was ordered to the brig Boxer; served in her in the Gulf of Mexico and in the West Indies until the autumn of the same year; served in
the receiving-ship Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Va., from Jan., 1843, until June of the same year; was then ordered to the frig- ate Macedonian, African Squadron, and served in her until the winter of 1844. Promoted to passed midshipman, May 28, 1844; served in the frigate Columbia, coast of Brazil, from the fall of 1845, until the spring of 1846; served during the summer of 1846 in the office of the United States Coast Survey; in the fall of the same year was ordered as passed midshipman to the steamer Michigan, on the Western lakes, and served in her until the summer of 1848; served in the receiving-ship North Carolina, as passed midshipman, from the fall of 1849 until the summer of 1850. Was then ordered as acting master to the sloop St. Mary's, which order was revoked be- fore that vessel went to sea; in about a month after was ordered to the sloop Al- bany, and served in her as acting master in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico for two years and one month, and was granted leave from her in the latter part of the fall of 1852; in the winter of 1852 was ordered as acting master to the re- ceiving-ship Ontario, where he received a warrant as master, in the line of promo- tion, and served in her until the summer of 1853. Promoted to lieutenant, Aug., 1853, and served in the Decatur, Pacific Squadron, until Aug., 1856; in Dec., 1860, ordered as lieutenant to receiving-ship Princeton at Philadelphia; served in her until April 23, 1861, on which day he was ordered to the Philadelphia city ice- boat, which had been improvised into a man-of-war in less than twenty-four hours, as executive, under Commander (now Rear-Admiral) Oliver S. Glisson; served in her in the Chesapeake, con- voying government transports with troops and munitions of war, until the middle of May of same year; was then ordered to the frigate Mississippi; served in her as second lieutenant and executive in the Gulf Squadron, until Oct. 31, 1861, when he was ordered in command of the steam- er Water Witch; in June, 1863, was or- dered to command the gunboat Cimma- ron; served in her in South American Squadron, under Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, until May, 1864; while in her he partici- pated in the attack on the enemy's works before Charleston, Aug. 17, 1863, and · served in other engagements at the same place; in Oct., 1864, ordered to report to Acting Rear-Admiral Lee, as ordnance officer, Mississippi Squadron; in Feb., 1865, was transferred as executive officer to the Mound City Naval Station, in which ca- pacity he served until Feb., 1866; in April, 1866, was ordered as a member of the Naval General Court Martial, assembled at Philadelphia, Pa., and served on it until it was dissolved in June, 1866; in Aug., 1866, was ordered as lighthouse inspector of the Sixth Lighthouse District, Charles- ton, S. C., where he served until Aug. 7, 1868. Promoted to lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862; promoted to commander,
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