Captain Samuel Rodman

Captain Samuel Rodman

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Captain Samuel Rodman was born in Bedford, Massachusetts on January 26, 1860. He was the eldest son of Captain Thomas Rotch Rodman, who was Captain in the 38th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War.

Captain Samuel Rodman acquired his primary education in the City of Bedford and later in Cheshire Academy, and in a full four years' course in the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated as an honor man of his class on June 11, 1882, and was then assigned to the Artillery Branch of the Army, in which he served with distinction for ten years, and by reason of his study and knowledge of explosives he was assigned for special duty at the U.S. Torpedo School at Willard's Point, New York, and the U.S. Military School at Fortress Monroe and at the U.S. Naval Station at New York.

After ten years of active and useful service in the Army on September 23, 1892, he resigned his commission to engage in private business.

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, he volunteered and assisted in the organization of the 1st United States Volunteer Engineers, and on June 27, 1898, he was commissioned Captain and assigned to duty in that regiment, where he participated in all the engagements of his regiment. For a number of years he was severely affected with asthma and spent his winters in the South in order to avoid the severity of the Northern climate. On January 16, 1925, he was stricken with a very severe attack at Tucson, Arizona, and suddenly died.

Captain Rodman was elected a Companion of the Military Order the Loyal Legion of the United States on the 5th of November, 1899, through the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, his insignia being 8271, and on the 31st of December, 1892, his membership was transferred to the Commandery of Illinois, where by his intelligence and social qualities he became greatly esteemed.