HEREDITARY TRAITS OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 23 



TABLE 6. Fighting naval officers and the allied vocations of their close relations Continued. 



16. DEWEY. Quick in response, fond of adventure, cool and brave in emergency. A brother was 



quartermaster of infantry in the Civil War and this brother's son is a naval officer. 

 Maternal side: Little evidence of adventurousness or hyperkinesis. None of the known rela- 

 tives on this side show love of the sea. 

 Paternal side: Father, a physician, sometime army surgeon and president of an insurance 



company. The father's father's father was a captain of militia in the Revolution; his 



brother was a gunsmith with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. Of these brothers the 



mother's mother's father was George Denison, the most brilliant pioneer soldier of the 



Massachusetts colony, from whom also is descended Commodore John Rodgers (q. v.). 

 Comment: In absence of fuller details about grandparents it is hard to interpret the origin 



of Dewey's traits. Probably the father had something of his quickness in response. 

 21. FOOTS. An excellent organizer and gallant fighter; audacious. Brother, a congressman. 

 Maternal side: Mother's father, a brigadier general of militia. 

 Paternal side: Father voyaged to West Indies; was a member of the United States Senate 



and House of Representatives; also governor of Connecticut. 

 Comment: The fighting capacity seen in mother's side; administration in father. 

 25. HAWKE. A fighter. 



Maternal side: Mother's mother's father a general in the army, of the well-known fighting 



Fairfaxes. 



Paternal side: Father, a lawyer. 



Comment: A restlessness comes down through an exclusively female line. 



54. PBEBLE. Liable to outbreaks of temper; fond of the sea, a good disciplinarian and dip- 

 lomat. Two of his brothers were captains of merchantmen. 

 Maternal side: The mother's father was a shipmaster and merchant and held many town 



offices. His brother was similarly a shipmaster and merchant of much enterprise. 

 Paternal side: The father was a sea captain, entered the army, and attained the rank of 



brigadier general. It is said that he was the first white man to ascend Mount 



Washington; he had a violent temper. 

 Comment: The violent temper is clearly a Preble trait and the father was also fond of 



mountain climbing (nomadic trait). The love of the sea is a trait shown on both 



sides. 

 61. SEYMOUR. Thalassophilic, administrative. 



Maternal side: Mother's father, a member of Parliament; mother's mother's father, a member 



of Parliament. 

 Paternal side: Father, a clergyman, two of whose brothers were naval officers: Michael an 



admiral and Edward a captain; another brother had a son who was a vice admiral. 



Father's father, a distinguished admiral. Father's mother's father, a captain in 



the Royal Navy. 

 Comment: On the face of the pedigree chart, the maternal side brought legislative ability and 



the paternal side love of the sea and gallantry. Seymour combined these traits. 

 64. TATTNALL. Fearless, judicious, brilliant, beloved, diplomatic. 



Maternal side: Of the mother's father little is known except that the Fenwicks were a family 



of great influence. The mother's younger sister had a son, Christopher Gadsden, 



commander of the United States brig Vixen. 

 Paternal side: Father's father was a Loyalist and returned to England with "Father"; the 



latter declined a commission in the Royal army, returned to America, and fought 



with the colonial troops; became a brigadier general, United States senator, and 



governor of Georgia. 

 Comment: The only naval man found in this record is on the maternal side; but fighting 



capacity and diplomacy are found in the father. 

 68. WOLSELEY. Somewhat nomadic, hypokinetic. 



Maternal side: His mother's brother, Phillips Cosby, became a British admiral and another 



brother was captain in the army. The mother's father was a lieutenant in the army 



and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. 

 Paternal side: The father was a captain of infantry; and his father's father was in the army 



in Ireland under William III and later a member of Parliament. 

 Comment: The nearest relative with his love for the sea is his mother's brother, Admiral 



Cosby. Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley (born 1833) was the grandson of a second 



cousin. 



