PART II. 



BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF NAVAL OFFICERS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR 

 JUVENILE PROMISE AND THEIR PERSONAL TRAITS. 



The brief biographies of naval officers in these pages are written 

 according to the following plan. First is an account of the achievements 

 and other events in the life of the man. In a few cases it has been found 

 convenient to include here details of the man's juvenile reactions. The 

 second part of the account is an analysis of the traits or " gifts" which 

 have colored or determined the output of the subject. In this treatment 

 there are often considered similar reactions of the man's kin and the develop- 

 ment in the individual of each of these gifts. In some cases, in default of 

 details concerning the kin, a mere outline of the man's genealogy is given. 



In reading the biographies the pedigree charts (when furnished) should 

 be frequently consulted. These charts (with their rather full legends) 

 serve to show the position in the family tree of the relatives named in the 

 text and to give some idea of the distribution of traits throughout the 

 genetic complex. All children of a fraternity, whether eminent or attained 

 to maturity or not, are given in order that the "density" in the family tree 

 of the special gifts may be measured. Names of persons and places are 

 given rather fully, as they may help the student in other pedigree investi- 

 gations. As the charts are highly condensed representations of descriptive 

 facts some account of the way to interpret them is given below. 



KEY TO PEDIGREE CHARTS 



Each symbol represents a person: Q males, O females. All symbols suspended from 

 the same continuous horizontal line constitute one fraternity. The vertical line leads upwards 

 from the fraternity line to the short horizontal line connecting the parents of said fraternity. 



Dotted lines indicate illegitimacy. Dot-and-dash line . . means mere descent 



without attempt to represent the generations. The generations are numbered at the left from 

 top to bottom; the individuals in each generation are numbered from left to right for ease of 

 reference. The chronological order of individuals in the fraternity is usually not indicated by the 

 order on the chart. A number inside of or just below a symbol indicates that the symbol stands 

 for that number of individuals. 



The following is a key to the special marks on the symbols. 



Z 3 4 



B U Q 



9 10 \ 



a a 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



m n a a a 



17 18 19 20 21 



1. Naval officer, usually of rank of cap- 



tain or higher. 



2. Naval officer of low rank (usually lieu- 



tenant or lower) or of slight eminence. 



3. Seaman, including captain of a mer- 



chantman. 



4. " Merchant " of the old days, interested 



in shipping, sometimes going with his 

 cargo. 



5. Sea traveler or ship's surgeon. 



6. Of naval promise; died young. 



7. Nomad. 



8. Reformer. 



9. Explorer. 



10. Army officer. 



11. Army officer of unrealized promise. 



12. "In army." 



13. In army service, but not as fighter. 



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14. Administrator. 



15. Legislator. 



16. Clergyman. 



17. Fearlessness. 



18. Authorship. 



19. Inventiveness. 



20. Musical capacity. 



21. Artistic capacity. 



