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The cession of the rights of Connecticut is dated September 14, 1786. The opening words are:
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Whereas, the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, on the second Thursday in May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, passed an act in the following words, viz:
Article 5th declared: "There shall be formed in the said territory not less than three or more than five States."
As soon as Connecticut gave up her rights, Section 9th pro- vided :
So soon as there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, upon giving proof thereof to the Governor, they shall receive authority with time and place, to elect representatives from their counties or townships, to represent them in the General Assembly and "the western state, in the said territory, shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Wabash rivers."
The second General Assembly convened in December, 1803, when the militia law was revised, and aliens enabled to enjoy the same proprietary rights as native citizens.
On the seventh of April, 1788, the Ohio Company's organized colony, landed from boats gathered on the Youghiogheny, at the mouth of the Muskingum. The name Marietta was agreed upon July 2. The stockade was completed in the winter of 1791.
George Washington in his youth, as a prophetic surveyor, had a clear eye for the resources of land, and among the fore- most of the explorers, found the ways of "Winning the West." Those who passed the Great Miami going westward to mark the paths of progress, reported that the land was good in the far West, and gloried in the Wabash country, following closely upon the Ohio in the grand procession of states. Then came Illinois, whose name rings with historic grandeur, when the states are called in National Convention assembled. It was, when the framers found it, without forests to burn, but coal mines within easy reach, land level - the landscape that of a fertile sea - spread far the quick building of railroads - all arranged for another Empire of Liberty.
When George Washington was still a boy surveyor in the valley of Virginia, Governor Dinwiddie, Benjamin Franklin, and gentlemen of Virginia and England, formed a London Company, with the view of anticipating the French in taking possession of the Ohio country. The French had shown bravery and enter-
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prise in pushing westward on the Great Lakes, and their move- ments meant to claim rights of discovery of the heart of the continent.
The English had not settled seriously upon the land east- ward of the foothills of the Blue Ridge and other ranges of mountains of Virginia, the Carolinas and Pennsylvania.
The Franklin and Dinwiddie Company engaged Christopher Gist to go down the Ohio as far as "The Falls," though they had not tried to take "The Fork." Gist assumed the character of a trader, for if he had been known as an explorer, he would have been killed by the French Indians. His way of claiming the country west and north of the Oyo - the Indian name for the "Beautiful River," the Alleghany bearing the same name - was to bury plates of lead at the mouths of the rivers flowing from the north into the great stream bearing south and west; and the company interested in the Ohio valley desired above all to know what sort of lands were between the Ohio and Lake Erie.
The responsible explorer concluded to make acquaintance of the Great Miami the feature of his work, and ascended that river as far as it was easily navigable by canoes. His task was accom- plished in 1749, and a trading agency established on the Great Miami. Gist kept a journal, in which he recorded that he met with a party of Indians, who had taken a woman prisoner by mistake, and they were seeing her safe home on the Big Miami. The Little Miami was crossed well to the north, and then the course was laid southwest twenty-five miles, striking the Big Miami opposite the Twigtwee Town.
The object of the exploration was to find good land, and the explorer writes in his journal :
All the Way from the Shannoah Town to this place (except the 20 miles, which is broken) is fine, rich, level land, well timbered with large Walnut, Ash, Sugar Trees, Cherry Trees, etc. It is well watered with a large number of little Streamer Rivulets, and full of beautiful Natural Meadows, covered with wild Rye, blue grass and clover, and abounds with turkeys, deer, elks and most sorts of game particularly buffaloes, thirty or forty of which are frequently seen feeding in one Meadow.
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The Traders had always reckoned it 200 miles from the Shannoah Town to the Twigtwee Town, but by my computation I could make it not more than 150 - The Miami River being high, we were obliged to make a raft of old logs to transport our goods and saddles and swim our horses over - After firing a few guns and pistols, and smoking in the Warriours' Pipe, who came to invite us to the Town (according to the Custom of inviting and welcoming Strangers and Great Men) we entered the town with the English Colours before us, and were kindly received by their King, who invited us in his own House, and set our colours upon the top of it - the firing of guns held about a quarter of an hour, and then all the white men and traders that were there, came and welcomed us to the Twigtwee town - this town is situate on the northwest side of the Big Miami, about 150 miles from the mouth thereof; it consists of about 400 Families, and daily increasing, it is one of the strongest Towns upon this part of the Continent.
This was the first appearance of Englishmen in Ohio, that could be called a function. The date is more than fifty years before General St. Clair addressed the state convention at Chilli- cothe. The Gist journal is intelligently annotated at this point as follows :
The Great Miami river was first known as Rock River, called by the French Riviere de la Roche, from its rocky bed. When the Miami Nation emigrated to it from the Wabash, it took their name. Its head approached near that of the Maumee, which empties into Lake Erie, and was the original Miami, but changed by the whites to avoid confusion. The two rivers with a portage between their waters, was one of the principal canoe routes between the Ohio and the Lake. It was that by which Celeron went from Ohio to Detroit. The Twigtwees were Miamis, of which nation the Pickwayliness and Pyankeshees, later mentioned, were also tribed. They were once a very powerful nation, and claimed to have held the land between the Scioto and the Wabash, from the Ohio to the lakes, beyond the memory of man. They were the only Northern Indians who had not at some time been subdued by the Six Nations, and had so harrassed them when they had extended their conquest of other nations to the Mississippi that they had to relinquish their hold there and restrict themselves to their former limits. They had been faithful allies to the French from their first appearance on the lakes, and equally persistent enemies of the English, until a few years prior to this time, when they had changed their allegiance, moved from the Wabash to the Miami, and became friendly to the English. For this and its retaliation for their treaty with Groghand and Gist, the French waged a destructive. war against them, taking their fort and burning their villages in 1752.
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The Journal continues :
March 2, 1749. George Croghan and the rest of our Company came over the River. We got our Horses and sett out about 35 miles to Made Creek (this is a place where some English traders has been taken prisoners by the French.)
(This place is a point five miles west of Springfield, Clarke County, Ohio, the site of the noted Shawanee town Piqua, destroyed by George Rogers Clark, in 1780. It is said to have been the birth-place of Tecumseh. )
Sunday, 3. - This morning we parted, they for Hochockin, and I for the Shannoah Town, and as I was quite alone and knew that the French Indians had threatened us, I left the path, and went to the south west ward down the little Miamee River or Creek, where I had fine trav- elling through rich land and beautiful meadows, in which I could some- times see forty or fifty buffaloes feeding at once -the Little Miamee River or Creek continued to run the Middler of a fine Meadow, about Mile wide very clear like an old field, and not a bush in it, I could see the buffaloes in it about two miles off. I travelled this day about 30 miles.
Monday, 4. - This day I hear several guns, but was afraid to ex- amine who fired them, lest they might be some French Indians, so I travelled through the woods about thirty miles; just as night I killed a fine barren cow buffaloe and took out her tongue and little of her best meat. The land still level, rich and well timbered with oak, walnut, ash, locust and sugar trees."
Colonel Gist married Sarah Howard. His son Thomas lived a farmer in Fayette County, Pa. Richard was killed at King's Mountain. Nathaniel was a colonel in the Virginia line. Na- thaniel, in 1793, removed to Kentucky, by the old route by which his father guided Washington to Redstone and thence by family boat to Maysville, Kentucky, and settled on a tract of land of seven thousand acres of the most fertile lands in Bourbon County, received for his services in the French and Indian War. He left two sons and seven daughters.
Judith became the wife of Dr. Joseph Boswell, of Fayette County, Kentucky, and their daughter was the first wife of Gov- ernor Luke P. Blackburn ; Sarah married Honorable Jesse Bled- soe, who was secretary of state under Governor Scott, member of both houses of the Legislature, circuit judge and United States
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senator, and their daughter was the first wife of Judge Mason Brown, of Frankfort, and the mother of B. Gratz Brown, gov- ernor of Missouri and Democratic candidate for vice-president in 1872 ; Maria was the first wife of Benjamin Gratz, of Lexing- ton, Kentucky, and the mother of Colonel Howard H. Gratz, editor of the Lexington Gazette. Eliza married Francis P. Blair, and among their children were General Frank P. Blair and Mont- gomery Blair, Postmaster General; Anne married Captain Nat Hart, brother of the wife of Henry Clay.
It is a curious fact that though the French fought hard for the Ohio country, and were first on the Alleghany when all of it was called the Ohio river from the Mississippi into New York, and though General Braddock was defeated and killed, and Wash- ington finding out the scheme of the French - when he visited (twenty-one years old) the Fort Le Beuf, for Gov. Dinwiddie and was sent back with an insufficient force and defeated and captured - that is capitulated Fort Necessity and was a cap- tive July 4, twenty-two years before the Declaration of Inde- pendence - it is a queer complication that the guide of Wash- ington through the grim perils of his eventful journey, was the Christopher Gist, who in 1749, long before the French fortified Pittsburg unfurled the British colors on the Great Miami, and after his pioneer adventures in Ohio became famous as the father and founder of families of distinction including the Blairs and the Browns.
OFFICIAL RECORD OF SERVICES OF OHIO MEN IN THE NAVY.
We are indebted to the appreciative courtesy of the Navy Department of the United States for the extremely interesting and important extracts from the records that are the highest authority.
COMMANDER WILLIAM H. DANA, U. S. NAVY. - Born in Ohio, May 27, 1833. Appointed Midshipman, May 1, 1850, from Ohio. Narragansett, Pacific Squadron, to April 18, 1862; was with Commodore Farragut's Fleet in attempt to pass confederate batteries at Port Hudson, March 14, 1863 ; commanded Win-
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ona, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron from May 20, 1864, to June, 1865. Died March 5, 1872. * *
REAR-ADMIRAL REED WERDEN, U. S. NAVY, (RETIRED) . - Born in Pennsylvania in 1818. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio January 9, 1834. On board the Germantown, Home Squad- ron, from March 4, 1847 to August II, 1847, during which time he commanded a party of Seamen at the capture of Tuspan, Mex- ico. Promoted to Commander July 16, 1862. While command- ing the Powhatan, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, in 1863, blockaded the Rebel ram Stonewall in the Port of Havana, West Indies, until her surrender to the Spanish Government. Pro- moted to Rear Admiral February 4, 1875. Retired March 27,. 1877. Died at Newport, Rhode Island, July II, 1886.
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REAR-ADMIRAL BENJAMIN F. DAY, U. S. NAVY, (RETIRED) . - Born in Ohio January 16, 1841. Appointed Midshipman Sep- tember 20, 1858. Resigned November 24, 1861. Reinstated Jan- uary 29, 1861. Promoted to Lieutenant August 1, 1862 ; served on board Colorado Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; Suagus, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ;. engagements with Howlett House batteries in James River ; at- tacks on Fort Fisher. Retired March 28, 1900, with rank of Rear- Admiral. *
REAR-ADMIRAL FERDINAND P. GILMORE, U. S. NAVY, . (RE- TIRED) .- Born in Steubenville, Ohio, August 15, 1847. Ap- pointed Midshipman February 28, 1863, from Ohio, and was placed on the retired list, with the rank of Rear-Admiral, No- vember 6, 1902. * *
CAPTAIN WILLIAM M. FOLGER, U. S. NAVY. - Born in Mas- sillon, Ohio, May 19, 1844. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio,. September 21, 1861. *
CAPTAIN JOHN J. HUNKER, U. S. NAVY. - Born in Penn- sylvania, June 12, 1844. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio,. April 18, 1862. Commander the Annapolis at the engagement. at Nipe Bay, Cuba, July 21, 1898.
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CAPTAIN JOSEPH N. HEMPHILL, U. S. NAVY. - Born at Ripley, Ohio, June 18, 1847. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio, September 29, 1862.
CAPTAIN HARRY KNOX, U. S. NAVY. - Born at Greenville, Ohio, July 2, 1848. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio, March 2, 1863.
LATE REAR-ADMIRAL JOSEPH FYFFE, U. S. NAVY, (RETIRED). - Born in Urbana, Ohio, July 26, 1832. Appointed Acting Mid- shipman September 9, 1847. From school to the Cumber- land October 15, 1847. Detached from the Stromboli, Home Squadron, September 2, 1848. Yorktown, coast of Africa, October 7 to October 30, when he returned from wreck of that vessel. Warranted Midshipman September 9, 1847. On the St. Lawrence and Saranac to January 25, 1852. Naval Academy from October 2, 1852, to June 12, 1854. Pro- moted to Passed Midshipman June 15, 1854. On the San Ja- cinto from July 8, 1854, to April 7, 1855, when detached and ordered to Arctic Expedition. Promoted to Master September 15, 1855; to Lieutenant September 16, 1855. Detached from the Arctic Expedition October 13, 1855. On the Relief, Brazil Squadron, from February II, 1856 to March 3, 1857; the Ger- mantown, West Indian Squadron, from July 10, 1857, to April 14, 1860. To the Lancaster from December 12, 1860, to July 25, 1862. Promoted to Lieutenant Commander July 16, 1862. Mississippi Squadron from October 7, 1862, to November 15, 1865. Ordered to the Minnesota, North Atlantic Block- ading Squadron, April 8, 1863. Took part in the destruc- tion of the blockade runner Hebe and two Rebel guns on beach near Fort Fisher, August, 1863 ; also in destruction of blockade runner Ranger and engagement with infantry below Fort Caswell, North Carolina, January, 1864. Engaged Rebel force of artillery above Cox's Wharf, James River, May, 1864. Engaged Rebel batteries near Deep River and at Curtis' Neck, near Tilg- man's Wharf, James River, June, 1864; engaged Rebel batteries near Dutch Gap, January, 1865. Placed on the retired list Oc- tober 1, 1864. Detached from command of Hunchback June 3,
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1865. Ordered to Navy Yard, Boston, March 8, 1866. Commis- sioned Lieutenant Commander from July 16, 1862. Detached from Navy Yard, Boston, March 16, 1867 and on May 8, 1867, reported to Oneida, Asiatic Station. Promoted to Commander December 2, 1867. Detached from the Oneida June 16, 1868. In command of the Sangus from April 23, 1869, to January 22, 1870. In charge of nitre depot, Malden, Mass., from October I, 1870, to October 1, 1873. Recruiting duty Detroit, Michi- gan, to December 27, 1873. Commanding Ajax to July 10, 1874. Light House Inspector, 14th District, from August II, 1864, to June 1, 1875. Ordered to command the Monocacy May IO, 1875, and was detached from that vessel October 17, 1877. Promoted to Captain January 13, 1879. In command of the St. Louis from September 15, 1879, to July 16, 1880. On the Frank- lin to October 15, 1881 ; on the Tennessee to May 1, 1882; on the Pensacola from August 1, 1882 to May 24, 1883. On duty at the Navy Yard, Boston, from June 27, 1884, to November 30, 1887. Promoted to Commodore February 28, 1890. President of Board to visit Naval and Merchant vessels at Boston, from October I, 1890, to June 27, 1891. Commanding Naval Station, New Lon- . don, from June 27, 1891, to June 28, 1893. Commandant, Navy Yard, Boston, to July 20, 1894. Promoted to Rear-Admiral July 10, 1894. July 20, 1894, detached from the Navy Yard, Boston, and placed on the retired list. Died at Poerce, Nebraska, Feb- ruary 25, 1896.
REAR-ADMIRAL ALBERT KAUTZ, U. S. NAVY, (RETIRED) .- Born in Ohio, January 29, 1839. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio, September 28, 1854; served on board Hartford, Western Gulf Squadron, 1861-2; Susquehanna, 1863; served on board Hartford at capture of New Orleans, and the passage of Vicks- burg, June 29, and July 16, 1862; Pacific Squadron, 1865. Re- tired with rank of Rear-Admiral January 29, 1901.
REAR-ADMIRAL JAMES A. GREER, U. S. NAVY, (RETIRED). - Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 28, 1833. Appointed Mid- shipman January 10, 1848; as a lieutenant-Commander, com- manded iron-clad Benton, and a division of Admiral Porter's
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Squadron ; passage of Vicksburg, April, 1863; engagement at Grand Gulf, April 29, 1863; bombardment of Vicksburg batter- ies during the siege of forty-five days; frequently engaged with guerillas ; accompanied the Red River Expedition. Retired Feb- ruary 28, 1895, with rank of Rear-Admiral.
LATE VICE ADMIRAL STEPHEN C. ROWAN, U. S. NAVY. - Born in Ireland, December 25, 1808; appointed Midshipman from Ohio, February 15, 1826, and ordered to the Vincennes, Pacific Squadron ; serving in Experiment, Chesapeake Bay, 1831.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832, and at- tached to the Vandalia, West India Squadron, 1834-36, and to Relief, 1837.
Commissioned as Lieutenant in 1837; on Coast Survey duty,. 1840; attached to Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1843; serving in Pacific Squadron, 1846-48.
Commanded Naval batallion under Commodore Stockton at the battle of Mesa, Upper California ; commanded a landing party that made a successful night attack on a Mexican outpost, near Mazatlan; Executive Officer of the Cyane when she bombarded Guaymans; ordnance duty, 1850-53.
While in command of Pawnee, engaged rebel battery at. Acque Creek, first battle - naval -of war, participated in at- tack and capture of the forts and garrison at Hatteras Inlet.
February 7, 1862, commanded a naval flotilla in the sounds. of North Carolina, and took part in attack of navy and army upon Roanoke Island, on February 8. On February 10, 1862, pursues enemy into Albermarle Sound, where he captured or de- stroyed the fleet. Commissioned a Captain, July 16, 1862, and as a regard for distinguished gallantry, promoted to Commo- dore, to take rank from same date.
Commanded naval forces at fall of Newbern, N. C .; com- manded New Ironsides off Charleston, and participated in en- gagements with Forts Wagner, Gregg, and Moultrie.
Commissioned as Rear-Admiral, July 25, 1866; Command- ant of Norfolk Navy Yard, 1866-67 ; Commanding Asiatic Squad- ron, 1868-70.
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Commissioned as Vice-Admiral, August 15, 1870; special duty Washington, 1871; Commandant Navy Yard and Station, New York, 1872-76; Port Admiral, New York, 1877-81 ; Governor of Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, from September 30, 1881, to May 27, 1882; Superintendent of Naval Observatory from May 27, 1882, to May 2, 1883; Chairman of Light House Board from January 2, 1883, to February 26, 1889, when he was retired. Died at Washington, D. C., March 31, 1890. *
LATE COMMODORE WILLIAM E. FITZHUGH, U. S. NAVY. - Born in Ohio October 18, 1832; appointed Midshipman from Ohio, November 20, 1848; on Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, 1861- 62; Iroquois, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-63; Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; was present at engage- ment with Fort Morgan, August, 1864; commanded Ouachita, Mississippi Squadron, 1864-65; received the surrender of rebel naval forces on Red River ; promoted to Commodore August 25, 1887; died August 3, 1889.
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LATE COMMODORE GEORGE M. RANSOM, U. S. NAVY, (RE- TIRED) .- Born in New York, 1820. Appointed Midshipman from Ohio, July 25, 1839; served six months on the coast of Mexico, during the Mexican War. With the rank of Lieutenant he served as Executive officer of the Saranac, Pacific Squadron, 1861 ; commanded Kinco, West Gulf Squadron, 1862-63. In en- gagements with Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 24, 1862; participated in that morning's destruction of the enemy's fleet above the forts; in the capture of New Orleans, and in all of Farragut's operations in that year, as far as Vicksburg. Pro- moted Lieutenant-Commander July 16, 1862; contributed largely to the defeat of Breckenridge's army at Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862; appointed August 8, 1862, to command a division of the West Gulf Squadron, to operate with a flotilla of gunboats, be- tween New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and to co-operate with the army. With a part of his flotilla, on October 1, 1862, he cap- tured from the rebels fifteen hundred of beef cattle, ten miles above Donaldsonville, La. Three days later in engagement with rebel batteries and guerillas, two miles below Donaldsonville. o. c. - 15
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Promoted to Commander January 2, 1863 ; commanded Mercedita, West India Squadron, Grand Gulf, North Atlantic Squadron, Muscoota, was appointed to have general supervision of vessels employed on blockade; commanded the Algonquin to 1866. Pro- moted to Commodore March 28, 1877; retired June 18, 1882, and died September 10, 1889, at Norwich, Conn.
REAR-ADMIRAL MERRILL MILLER, U. S. NAVY. - Born in Ohio, September 13, 1842. Appointed a Midshipman from Ohio, November 28, 1859; promoted to Ensign October 13, 1862; Mis- sissippi Squadron, 1862-3; Battle of Arkansas Post, 1863; Haine's Bluff, 1863 ; in charge of mortar-boats, at siege of Vicks- burg, for twenty-three days, in 1863. Promoted Lieutenant, February 22, 1864; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864- 5 ; expedition up James River, 1864 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher. Promoted to Rear-Admiral July 1, 1899, which rank he now holds. *
LATE REAR-ADMIRAL JOSEPH A. SKERRETT, U. S. NAVY, (RETIRED) .- Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, January 18, 1833. Ap- pointed an Acting Midshipman October 12, 1848. May 12, 1849, detached from school and to the Mississippi. May 11, 1850, warranted a Midshipman from October 12, 1848. June 30, 1852, detached from Independence, Mediterranean Squadron. Sep- tember 20, 1852, to the Marion, coast of Africa. June 15, 1854, promoted to Passed Midshipman. At Naval Academy from October I, 1854, to June 12, 1855. June 15, 1854, warranted Passed Midshipman. On the Potomac from July 2, 1855, to August 2, 1856. Promoted to Master September 15, 1855. To the Falmouth, Brazilian Squadron, from January 1857, to May 21, 1859. At Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, from July 9, 1859, to June 26, 1860. On the Release from June 26, 1860, to October 5, 1860; Saratoga from November 2, 1860, to June 3, 1863, during which time that vessel was engaged in watching for ves- sels engaged in the slave trade on the coast of Africa. Promoted to Lieutenant Commander July 16, 1862. Ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, from January 20, 1863, to May 22, 1863, when he joined the Shenandoah, which was engaged in blockade duty in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. December 2,
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1863, detached from the Shenandoah and to command the Aroos- took, West Gulf Blockading Squadron ; detached from the Aroos- took September 25, 1865. On June 27, 1864, the Aroostook had an engagement with the Confederate batteries at the mouth of the Brazos River; on July 8, 1864, the Aroostook took part in the destruction of the Matagorda. In command of the Naval Rendezvous, Washington, from October 17, 1865, to May 23, 1867, when he was detached and ordered to command the Ports- mouth from the first of June. Promoted to Commander June 9, I867. May 2, 1868, detached from the Unadilla February 17, 1868. May 7, 1869, to July 30, 1872, on duty as Navigation Officer, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., when he was detached and ordered to special duty in connection with the Portsmouth, and took command of the Portsmouth August 29. Detached from the Portsmouth July 1, 1875, and ordered to the Washington Navy Yard August II, 1875, where he remained until October I, 1878. Promoted to Captain June 5, 1878. Light House Inspec- tor, First District, from November 1, 1878, to August 1, 1881. Ordered to the Richmond, per the Powhatan, August 15, and served on that vessel until August 30, 1884. On duty at the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, to October 23, 1886, when he was appointed Governor of the Asylum, in which capacity he served until May 31, 1888. Duty as member of Naval Advisory Board from December 12, 1888, to October 25, 1889. Promoted to Commodore August 4, 1889. Commandant, Navy Yard, Ports- mouth, N. H., from October 25, 1889, to September 13, 1890; Commandant, Navy Yard, Washington, from September 15, 1890, to December 31, 1892; in command of the Pacific Station from January 9, 1893, to October 10, 1893. In command of the Asiatic Station from December 9, 1893, to July 9, 1894. Promoted to Rear Admiral April 16, 1894. Retired July 9, 1894. Died at Washington, D. C., January 1, 1897.
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