In Memoriam, Edward Yorke Macauley, Rear Admiral U. S. N, Vol. 34

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Excerpt from In Memoriam, Edward Yorke Macauley, Rear Admiral U. S. N, Vol. 34: Read Before the American Philosophical Society, September 6, 1895 Edward Yorke Macauley, Rear Admiral U. S. N., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 2, 1827. His parents were Daniel Smith McCauley, formerly Lieutenant U. S. N., and Sarah Yorke, who had besides this son an elder daughter, Louisa, and a younger, Mary. The birth of this latter daughter must have occurred shortly after that of Edward, and either accompanied, or was closely followed by the death of his mother, for his father was remarried on October 31, 1831, by the Rev. James Montgomery, to his second wife, Frances Ann Jones, daughter of Hugh Jones, of North Carolina. They sailed for Tripoli the following day, November 1, 1831 (letter of D. S. Macauley in possession of Capt. C. N. B. M.). Edward's great uncle, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, U. S. N., had a career in many respects unparalleled in the U. S. Navy, which can be but briefly alluded to here. Born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1778, of Irish parents, he entered the merchant marine as cabin boy in 1791, and very soon commanded an Indiaman. He entered the Navy as Lieutenant March 9, 1798, served with the greatest distinction in the war with France, in that with the Barbary States, and in that with England in 1812, and received, like the Constitution, which he long commanded, the name of "Old Ironsides." He closed an active and honorable career of seventy-one years in the service of the United States on November 6, 1869. During this time he was on active duty for sixty-four years, and for seventeen years ranking officer of the Navy. Edward's uncle, Commodore Charles Stewart McCauley (a nephew of Charles Stewart), was born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1793. He was appointed a midshipman, U. S. N., in 1809, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant in 1814. He served with distinction on the Constellation in 1813, and on the Jefferson on Lake Ontario in 1814. At the breaking out of the Rebellion of 1861 he was ordered to the Gosport navy yard and prevented a large amount of material from falling into the hands of the rebels. He died on May 21, 1869. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.