. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . for ex-traordinary effort, we may mention the fact that inthe summer of 1887 he himself prepared the generaldesigns of the machinery of five vessels of the newnavy. January, 1896, reappointed for the third termas chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, andagain for the fourth time in 1900. He was retired in1903, but his interest in political matters is as keenand his judgmeat as good as when he was in thevery prime of life. PUi-. REAR ADMIRAL ARTHUR STATES NAVY. 47 Rear Admiral ARTHUR BURTIS. United States
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . for ex-traordinary effort, we may mention the fact that inthe summer of 1887 he himself prepared the generaldesigns of the machinery of five vessels of the newnavy. January, 1896, reappointed for the third termas chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, andagain for the fourth time in 1900. He was retired in1903, but his interest in political matters is as keenand his judgmeat as good as when he was in thevery prime of life. PUi-. REAR ADMIRAL ARTHUR STATES NAVY. 47 Rear Admiral ARTHUR BURTIS. United States Navy. Was born in New York, and appointed assistantpaymaster from that State by Air. Lincoln in 1862 ;his grandfather, x^rthur Bnrtis, was an Alderman ofthe City of New York from 1813 to 1819; his great-grandfather and great great-grandfather both servedin the Revolntionar}^ War. His father was the Burtis, D. D., an eminent clergyman of Buf-falo, N. Y. Young Burtis first orders were to dut}^under Admiral Farragut in the Sagamore, but on thewa} there in the supply steamer Rhode Island hecontracted yellow fever and was sent north ; upon re-covering was ordered to the Connecticut, employed inconvo3dng the California steamers through the Car-ibbean Sea; the Connecticut was next on the block-ade, capturing four noted blockade-runners; alsocaused the destruction of four more, in the course ofwhich duty she was engaged with Fort Fisher. From1864 to 1866 Paymaster Burtis was attached to theM
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