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About Rear Admiral Robert Harris Wyman
Rear Admiral United States Navy
The Sunday Herald Sunday Morning, December 3, 1882 Boston, Massachusetts Admiral Wyman Dead Record of Forty Years of Active and Valuable Naval Service Washington, D.C., December 2, 1882. Rear Admiral Robert H. Wyman, who was stricken with paralysis yesterday, died at 3 o’clock this morning. His funeral will take place from St. John’s Church on Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The pallbearers and funeral escort will assemble at 1:50PM on that day at 826 Fourteenth Street and proceed thence to the church. The remains will be deposited in Oak Hill Cemetery. The pallbearers will be Rear Admirals Andrew Bryson, D.N. O’Neill Fairfax, Thomas H. Stevens, Commodore Earl English, Surgeon General P.S. Wales, Colonel Charles G. McCawley, United States Marine Corps, General O.M. Poe and J.C. Tidball of General Sherman’s staff.
Robert H. Wyman was born in New Hampshire and was appointed midshipman from that state March 11, 1837. He was attached to the razee Independence and sloop Fairfield, Brazils, 1837-1838; sloop John Adams, East Indies, 1838-1840; sloop Concord, line-of-battleship Delaware and frigate Potomac, Brazil Squadron, 1840-1842 and in 1842 and 1843 was on duty at the Naval School at Philadelphia. He was promoted to passed midshipman June 29, 1843 and was assigned to the schooner Oakahage, the brig Perry and the frigate Brandywine, East Indies, 1843-1846. During the Mexican War he served in the Gulf on board the Princeton, Porpoise and the Albany. He was present at the siege of Vera Cruz and was in 1848, assigned to duty at the Washington Observatory and on board the receiving ship in Boston Harbor 1849-1850. He received his commission as Lieutenant July 16, 1850 and saw service as follows: sloop St. Mary’s, Pacific and East India Squadrons, 1850-1852; observatory, Washington, 1853-1854; practice ships Preble and Plymouth, 1859-1860; sloop Richmond, 1860-1861; commanding steamers Yankee and Pocahontas, 1861; Pawnee, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-1862; Battle of Port Royal, November 1861; commanding Potomac Flotilla, 1862. On the 16th of July 1862, he was commissioned as commander and his first ship was the steamer Sonoma, in the James River, 1862 and his next the Wachusett and Santiago de Cuba, West India Squadron, 1862-1863. He was on special duty, Navy Department at Washington during the years 1864-1865 and in 1865 was assigned to the command of the steam frigate Coronado, the flagship of the European Squadron. He was commissioned as Captain July 25, 1865 and placed in command of the steam sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron 1867-1869, after which until 1878 he was in charge of the Hydrographic Office at Washington. He was commissioned as Commodore July 19, 1872. His total sea service was 20 years and 5 months; total shore and special duty 22 years. Editor.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 27 2019, 12:53:51 UTC
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Rear Admiral Robert Harris Wyman's Timeline
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July 12, 1822
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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
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December 2, 1882
Age 60
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Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
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Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
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