Born in Western Virginia in 1845. Appointed from that section by his uncle, Hon. William G. Brown; entered Naval School at Newport, July, 1864; graduated, June, 1868, number three in a class of eighty; served as Midshipman on North Pacific Station, on board of Saranac, Lackawanna, and Pensacola. Promoted to Ensign, 1869; to Master, 1870; sailed from New York, on the Alaska, in April, 1870, for China; made a three years’ cruise in that vessel; took part in the Korean Expedition; commanding the sailors landed as infantry from that ship; was in the final charge at Fort McKee, and was mentioned in the official reports of the action as among those first in the fort; ordered as second lieutenant to the New Hampshire, at Norfolk, in October, 1873; served there until June, 1874, when he was ordered to Torpedo School at Newport; in October of same year was ordered as first lieutenant of the Despatch; ordered to Swatara, June, 1875; served on Home Squadron until March, 1877, when he was ordered to the Naval Academy as Instructor of Navigation and Surveying. Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 13, 1872; appointed Lieutenant Commander, 27 April 1893; Retired, 5 December 1894. Died 14 December 1906.
