Show < I l C = = S un H n G I JqitTINcIwiuE s EVEN TO THE THIRD AND FQUBTO I iNftTION IN THE AllMY AND NAYY 1 Sflflflaaflan tflaa S Nearly all tIne people of the army I and navy have history back of them Their own sons are representatives of their distinguished sires passing through adolescence to tho same rank nnd equal or higher honors Sometimes Some-times in fact most times they miss It But enough of them attain rank nnd place to hold their families In distinctive position and we have presented pre-sented to our social life two phases of persistently recruited aristocracy the army and the navy It is quite reasonable that admirals I should beget captains anti that generals gener-als should bo tho stem upon which colonels and majors grow but In our I American service they bud perennially I perenni-ally Not Infrequently they give new I luster to the family tree more often i they do not and like limbs of a I great oak whoso stofck is established they are only branches whoso source of existence Is the splendid trunk that holds them up The civil war broke up many lines I that had been previously maintained nmong them tho Perrys who gave two distinguished admirals from Rhode 1landOIlor Hazard Perry and his brother William C Perry who carried our flag with honor to Japan Each had sons who followed their distinguished dis-tinguished sires Into the navy But the family drifted Into Georgia and the civil war broke up the line only to be renewed again at a later period when two more of tat name appear again on the navy list Thomas Perry a captain and another descendant Newman K Perry a Junior lieutenant lieuten-ant with more assured rights as a descendant des-cendant of Oliver Hazard Perry of Lake Erie Historic Lee Family I The Lees of Virginia were even I more firmly entrenched In the army Lighthorse Harry Lee held a commission com-mission in the Colonial service the name appears In all subsequent army lists until the civil war when It is shown ns Robert E Lee general of the Confederacy After that there Is a hiatus but we find the family again named and distinguished In the person per-son of tho late Consul General at Cuba FHzhugh Lee nnd In a half dozen doz-en more In both services In both branches the name of Lee appears as illustrating the permanency of this distinguished name It has been borne by members of the family by I 34 officers of tho army and 1C of the navy The remotest relation was that of a second cousin tho highest ranks were by two admirals and eight generals gen-erals Since General Gates fought the battle bat-tle of Saratoga his name Is preserved without break by lineal descendents In tho army and navy and so too Is that of Greene and Schuyler and with a break of a generation that of Arnold the latter In the army The civil war started new families Ulysses S Grant is represented by a son General Frederick D Grant and a grandson Lieutenant Ulysses S Gmnt 3d Great Names In Both Services Other generals perpetuated their names In both services W L Pitcher Pit-cher entered the Naval Academy In 1868 bilged in his third class year entered the army by Presidential appointment ap-pointment as a second lieutenant and Is now lieutenant colonel of the Twentyeighth Infantry His father was superintendent of West Point having served with Grant and while In that office his second son John Pitcher Pit-cher entered as a cadet graduated and Is now a major In the Sixth cavalry cav-alry In the same class at Annapolis with W L Pitcher entered John C Fremont son of the General and Pathfinder Path-finder lIe graduated and Is now nearly at the head of the commanders command-ers list His brother Francis P Fremont is a graduate of West Point and a major In the regular army nnd John C Fremont Jr Is an ensign In tho navy Probably the direct line In the army and navy has been more faithfully maintained the latter branch by the family of Selfrldge than any other Tho first Selfrldge Thomas Olive was a master when that rank had peculiar pe-culiar duties aboard ship Our navy In Its early days was a reproduction of tho English service amid tho olllco of I a master was taken over with other ranks Tho master stored cargo saw to tim water supplies checked tho I requisitions In tho several departments I depart-ments of the boatswain gunner carpenter car-penter and sallmaker lIe was a noncombatant non-combatant and not In the lino of promotion pro-motion to flag rank but ho was the real sallorman when the crews of menofwar were fighting men rather than seamen Back to Colonial Days The ilrst Sclfridgo served with tho Barry In Colonial times Ills son also Thomas 0 Selfridge entered tho navy In 1703 and became a commodore in 1843 serving until 1863 The commodores com-modores son also Thomas Oliver Solfrldge entered the service In 1832 and lived till within a few years dying a rear admiral Ills son also Thomas O Solfrldgo born In 1836 entered the navy In 1850 graduated at tho head of his class in 1854 was a lieutenants on tho Cumberland Cumber-land when she was sunk by the Mer rlmac served at Vicksburg commanded com-manded the Huron in both attacks on Fort Fisher served as chief of surveys sur-veys on the Isthmus of Darien commanded com-manded the European squadron 1895 98 retired In April of the latter year as a rear admiral and lives In Washington Wash-ington In honored dignity old ago and distinguished services His son MEUZENfT 6Ad2 ESJc vl7 Rn 1 A IL S S 7 t e tit ii i S I tt I I 1 r I k q I S I s i = f5aG4Yr I c a i tA 4 I ClZV eE Da tyr o 0 II I S James R Selfridge IS a captain In tho navy and was recently ordinance officer of tho Boston navy yard Captain Cap-tain Selfrldges son Is Duncan I Self ridge a midshipman In the third class In the Naval Academy and looks forward for-ward to being an admiral like his jmternal ancestors a rank which his father will also attain within three years Hero was a family that had threo flag officers father son and grandsonon the navy list at onetime one-time all distinguished officers and who traced their origin to tho Infant days of the service and who moreover were further represented by two generations gen-erations of descendants wearing the blue S Long Continued Service This Is perhaps the most marked Instance of long continued service of one family In one paternal line In either Service I But the name of Porter presses It closely Commodore David Porter son of n Continental naval officer served In tho war of 1812 and In the Essex sloop of war fought off the English frigate Cherub until driven ashore I his ship was burned lIe returned home to IInd himself regarded as a I hero and to undergo the heros experience i ex-perience with republics which are notoriously ungrateful Ho resigned and entered the Mexican service with a flag rank became disgusted and resigned re-signed Three of his sons entered the navy One of them was Admiral David D Porter one of the threo full admirals ad-mirals our naval service has ever known Of the other sons one died young the other attained captains rank and survived the civil war In which ho participated Admiral D D Porter son entered Annapolis in the famous class of 65 graduating in 1869 and is now a commander Another An-other son entered the marine corps but died young The Truxtons descendants of the famous old Commodore Thomas Trux ton are represented In the sprvlce by two names In the Junior grade But this is an atavism for this family having figured In the service for near ly 100 years dropped out and reappeared reap-peared after an interval of n generation genera-tion Professor Dennis Mnhan occupied for many years tho chair of mathematics mathe-matics at West Point Ills brothor It I Captain Alfred T Mnhan of time navy retired tho authority on naval strategy and tho author of Sea Power Professor Pro-fessor Mnlmns son Is Dennis II Ma han a captain In the navy A summary sum-mary showing tho occupation of parents par-ents of cadets at West Point from 1850 to 1900 proved that 382 wero officers of tho army and 69 officers of tho navy A similar table prepared about tho saiuo time and for the same period for Annapolis showed that 290 midshipmen were sons of naval officers offi-cers Iud 1G4 sons of army officers and only the profession of lawyers had contributed more sons to both services Worthy Sons of Great Fathers It was Macaulny who said of n noble house of Scotland that its virtues grow by repetition through generations genera-tions and there could bo no doubt of tho fact that with reference to this family eventually tho world as we know It would become too common for tho Argylos But that was only a political diatribe So long as the army and navy breeds In direct line through generations nnd men arise like Admiral Casey Captain Rogers General Fred Grant Admiral Taylor tho Lees the Fronchs tho Qulnbya tho Crownlnshlelds and tho Cromwells no better source could be found at which to recruit our list of future admirals and generals They havo the best historic asoclatlons to inspire in-spire them Our army and navy may indeed through their maternity seek an aristocracy but In their paternal lines they are still a democracy pure and undeflled out of which Dowoya and Schleys are always ready to spring |