Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough, 

 U.S. Navy (1805- 1877) 



Appointed in 1830, then a Lieutenant, he was the first 

 Officer-in-Charge of the Navy's Depot of Charts and Instru- 

 ments, predceeswjr of the Naval Oicanographic Office. This 

 Depot was established in accordance with a plan which 

 Goldsborough himself had suggested. His long and varied naval 

 career was interrupted when he look leave to participate in the 

 Seminole Indian War commanding a company of mounted 

 volunteers. 



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