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William Speiden
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b. 1798 – d. 18 Dec 1861
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63 yrs.
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R48 S215
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- U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
- Perry’s expedition to establish diplomatic relations with Japan (1853-1854).
- Read Wilkes positive recollections. (one of the few positive recollections I found in his autobiography).
- From March 1856 until 1863 William Speiden was the Naval Storekeeper at the Hong Kong Depot.
- Speiden served as a purser's clerk aboard the Mississippi during the Japan expedition.
- Family papers in the Smithsonian, Armed Forces History Collection.
- LOC restored his two-volume journals containing many drawings and paintings in 2003.
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John Jay Almy
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d. 16 May 1895
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80 yrs.
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R51 S229
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- Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- Inscription says he served 46 years.
- served 27 years 10 months at sea, 14 years 8 months shore duty.
- Well-known naval officer of the Civil War.
- Family of 5 children (what was the life of the wife of a Navy officer in those years, left alone for almost 28 years to raise her family).
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Graham Family Plot
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R51 S214-220
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- Family of military men.
- Two (James & William) graduated from West Point in 1817.
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Guy Hamilton Burrage
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b. 1867 - d. 16 Jun 1954
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R50 S 215
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- Naval Academy class of 1887
- Veteran of the Spanish American War.
- Commandant of Norfolk Navy Yard, 1919.
- Captain of the ship that brought Lindberg and the Spirit of St. Louis back from France after his trans-Atlantic flight in 1927.
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