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was married in 1814 to Elizabeth Matilda Lud- low, of New York city. He was executive officer of the President when captured by the British

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frigate Eudymion, Jan. 15, 1815, and was im- prisoned in Bermuda until the close of the war. He was presented with three silver medals by congress for the part he bore in the capture of the Guerriire, Java and Peacock, and with a sword and vote of thanks from the legislature of South Carolina. He sailed, as 1st lieutenant of the Guerriere under Commodore Decatur of the Med- iterranean squadron in 1815 in the Algerian war, and after the capture of the Algerine fleet, June 20, 1815, and the signing of a treaty of peace, he was at once detached and placed in command of the Epervier, with orders to bear a copy of the treaty to Wasliington. but the vessel never readied jwrt, probably foundering at sea in July, 1815.

SHUBRICK, William Branford, naval oflScer, was born on Bull's Island. S.l'., Oct. 31, 1790; son of Col. Thomas Shubrick. He attended Harvard college in 1805; was warranted midshipman in the U.S. navy, June 20, 1806, and was attached to the Constellation in the defence of Norfolk, Va., in 1812-13. He was commissioned lieutenant, Jan. 5, 1813; was attached to the frigate Consti- tution in 1813-15, and served as 3d lieutenant in the capture of the C//ovteandLel'a»^, Feb. 23, 1815. He was given command of t\\e Levant, and evaded recapture by the British, for which service he was mentioned by congress in the vote of thanks ex- tended to Commodore Stewart and his men. and afterward received a medal from that body and a vote of thanks and sword from the legislature of South Carolina. He cruised around the world ia the Washington, 1815-18; was promoted com- mander, March 20, 1820; commanded the Lexing- ton and Natchez, 1826-29; was promoted captain. Feb. 21, 1831; commanded the West India squad- ron, 1838—10; served as commander-in-chief of the naval force on the Pacific coast in the Lide- pendence during the Mexican war, and captured the ports of Mazatlan, Guaymas, La Paz and San Bias. He commanded a small fleet, w^th the Princeton as flagship, on the eastern coast in the

protection of United States fishermen in 1853; was chairman of the light-house board, 1854-58, and president of the navy regulation board in 1857. He commanded nineteen U.S. naval ves- sels on a voyage to Paraguay in 1858, and at Asuncion, Jan. 25, 1859, demanded apologies and a sum of money as reparation for the attack on the U.S. steamer Water Witch, which were ob- tained, Feb. 10, 1859. He received a sword from the Argentine government and the thanks of the president for his services. He was placed on the retired list, Dec. 21, 1861; was promoted rear- admiral on the retired list, July 16, 1862, and served as senior member of the advisory board and as chairman of the light-house board, 1860- 70. He died in Washington, D.C., May 27, 1874. SHUFELDT, Robert Wilson, naval officer, was born in Red Hook, N.Y., Feb. 21, 1822. He en- tered the naval service as a midshipman, 1839; made his first cruise on the frigate Potomac, attached to the Brazil station; was on board the brig Bainbridge, home squadron, as acting mas- ter; attended the naval school in Philadelphia, 1844-45, and was advanced to passed midshipman, 1845. He served as chief officer of the U.S. mail steamers Atlantic and Georgia, 1849-51; was com- missioned master and lieutenant, 1853, and re- signed from the navy that year. He commanded the Black Warrior and Cahatcba in the merchant- marine service; was engaged in promoting a transit route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and in 1861 was in command of the Quaker City, plj-ing between New York and Havana, when President Lincoln appointed him U.S. consul- general to Cuba, and he served in Havana, 1861- 63. He was commissioned commander in the U.S. navy in 1862; commanded the Conemaugh of the South Atlantic squadron, 1863-64, and took part in the capture of Fort Morris and the attacks on Fort Wagner. He commanded the Proteus of the East Gulf squadron, 1864-65, and was senior naval officer in the attack on St. Mark's, Fla. He commanded the flagship Hart- ford, 1865-66, and the Wachusett on the Asiatic station, 1866-68. He was commissioned captain

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1869, and commanded the Miantonomah, 1870; was connected with the Isthmus of Tehuantepec