New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . doreWarrington in the Peacock, participating in her captures ofthe sloops-of-war Epervier and Nautilus. CommodoreVoorhees commanded the Frigate Congress on her famousmaiden cruise in 1842 to 1845; and was in command of theEast India squadron in 1850-1. Philip R. Voorhees waseducated at St. Johns College, Annapolis, graduating in theclass of 1855 with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and sub-sequently obtaining the degree of Master of Arts. Hislegal training was accjuired in the office of his maternaluncle, the Hon. Alexander Ran
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . doreWarrington in the Peacock, participating in her captures ofthe sloops-of-war Epervier and Nautilus. CommodoreVoorhees commanded the Frigate Congress on her famousmaiden cruise in 1842 to 1845; and was in command of theEast India squadron in 1850-1. Philip R. Voorhees waseducated at St. Johns College, Annapolis, graduating in theclass of 1855 with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and sub-sequently obtaining the degree of Master of Arts. Hislegal training was accjuired in the office of his maternaluncle, the Hon. Alexander Randall, Attorney General ofMaryland, after which he entered the Vulcan Iron Works,in Baltimore, and took a practical course in Mechanical andMarine Engineering. He passed a competitive examinationin i860, and in February, 1861, was ap])ointed an officer inthe Engineer Corps of the Navy. During the Civil War heserved in the frigate Wabash at the battles of HatterasInlet, Port Royal and both attacks upon Fort Fisher. Henext was assigned to duty in the gunboat Huron and. PHILIP R. VOORHEES. participated in the attacks upon the approaches to Wilmington, in the Cape Fear River, and was also one of her officersin the James River Fleet, at the fall of Richmond. Afterthe war he cruised in the South Seas in the sloop-of-warTuscarora, one of the ships in Commodore John Rodgerssquadron which escorted the monitor Monadnock fromHampton Roads to San Francisco. Upon his return fromthis cruise, he was detailed assistant instructor in steamengineering at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, and in 1868he resigned his commission as first assistant engineer in theNavy with rank of Lieutenant, reviewed his law studies andwas admitted to the Maryland bar, and, later, to practice inthe Supreme Court of the United States. He spent a shorttime in the examining department of the Patent Office andbegan the practice of patent law at the National came to the Metropolis in January, 1878, and establishedh
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