naval officer, b. East Benton, Maine. He moved to Wisconsin with his parents as a child, settling in Stevens Point. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. (1877), and served in various positions in the Pacific and Atlantic. His most important commands were chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet during the world cruise of 1908-1909, commander of the navy yard, Philadelphia (1910-1913), commander of the Atlantic submarine force (1915-1917), and commander of battleship force no. 1 of the Atlantic fleet (1917). From Sept. to Dec., 1918, he commanded the U.S. fleet in the western Atlantic in the absence of Admiral Mayo, and was awarded the D.S.M. for this service. In 1920 he retired from active duty with the rank of rear admiral and was posthumously made vice-admiral in 1930. He spent the last years of his life as an engineer in Philadelphia. He was the author of School of The Ship (1907), which was long used as a textbook on naval tactics. Dict. Amer. Biog.; Who Was Who in Amer. (1943); A. W. Grant Papers.

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