Letters to George Foster Emmons, 1866-1880.

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Letters to George Foster Emmons, 1866-1880.

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Forty-four personal and professional letters to George Foster Emmons, from friends, family, and the Navy Department. Many of his correspondents are colleagues from the Navy and carry news of their activities. Many letters refer to George Foster Emmons' son George Thornton Emmons, who was at the time attending the Navy Academy. Included are orders from the Navy Department, and letters from friends discussing the Navy's mandatory retirement age of 62. Principal correspondents include John J. Almy, Augustus Ludlow Case, and C.R.P. Rodgers.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8021353

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Emmons, George F. (George Foster), 1811-1884

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George Foster Emmons, naval officer, commissioned Commodore in 1868, was then assigned to the Hydrographic Office in Washington and commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He retired in 1873. His son, George Thornton Emmons, attended the Naval Academy. From the description of Letters to George Foster Emmons, 1866-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78934254 From the description of Letters to George Foster Emmons, 1866-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162475 ...

Rodgers, C. R. P. (Christopher Raymond Perry), 1819-1892

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Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, American naval officer, commander of the Pacific Squadron from 1878-1880. From the description of Letter book relating to his Pacific Squadron command, 1878-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171236 From the description of Letter book : relating to his Pacific Squadron command, 1878-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83330434 ...

Emmons, George Thornton.

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Emmons was a naval lieutenant from whom the American Museum of Natural History acquired extensive collections of Northwest Coast Indian material, 1880s-1920. From the description of Manuscript, [ca. 1920]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511653 Emmons was a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who was stationed on board the U.S.S. Pinta during the 1880s and 1890s. After retiring from the Navy in 1899, he took on special projects for the U.S. government that involved working with th...

Case, Augustus Ludlow, 1813-1893

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Naval officer. From the description of Augustus Ludlow Case note, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452816 ...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...