Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . SCENES IN SOUTH WORLDS FAIR BUILDINGS. The Peristyle. Administration Building. German Building. The Fisheries. SUPPLEMENT. The following matter, received too late tor insertion in the body ot this work, is added in the form of a supplement. COGHLAN, (Capt.) Joseph Bullock, navalofficer, was bom in Kentucky, and, at the age of15 years, came to Illinois, living on a farm for atime near Carlyle, in Clinton County. In 1800 hewas appointed by his uncle, Hon. Philip —then a Representative in Congress fromthe Belleville District—to the Naval Academy
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . SCENES IN SOUTH WORLDS FAIR BUILDINGS. The Peristyle. Administration Building. German Building. The Fisheries. SUPPLEMENT. The following matter, received too late tor insertion in the body ot this work, is added in the form of a supplement. COGHLAN, (Capt.) Joseph Bullock, navalofficer, was bom in Kentucky, and, at the age of15 years, came to Illinois, living on a farm for atime near Carlyle, in Clinton County. In 1800 hewas appointed by his uncle, Hon. Philip —then a Representative in Congress fromthe Belleville District—to the Naval Academy atAnnapolis, graduating in 1803, and being pro-moted through the successive grades of Ensign,Master, Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Commander, andCommander, and serving upon various vesselsuntil Nov. 18, 1898, when he was commissionedCaptain and, in 1897, assigned to the commandof the battleship Raleigh, on the Asiatic StationHe was thus connected with Admiral Deweyssquadron at the beginning of the Spanish-Ameri-can War, and took a conspicuous and brilliant p
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