The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement . n disciplinaristnof the quarterdeck, and the son won a reputation for the samequality of resourceful manhood. His captain found him to bea smart, efficient and capable officer and so reported him to theowners of the ship. At eighteen years of age he was first mateof the ship Riissell Glover commanded by his father, on a voyagefrom New York to San Francisco. In the latter port the shipwas laid up for a long time and young Ward was kept on boardas ship-keeper. His impetuous temperament could not long en-d
The ships and sailors of old Salem; the record of a brilliant era of American achievement . n disciplinaristnof the quarterdeck, and the son won a reputation for the samequality of resourceful manhood. His captain found him to bea smart, efficient and capable officer and so reported him to theowners of the ship. At eighteen years of age he was first mateof the ship Riissell Glover commanded by his father, on a voyagefrom New York to San Francisco. In the latter port the shipwas laid up for a long time and young Ward was kept on boardas ship-keeper. His impetuous temperament could not long en-dure such monotony as this and it was at San Francisco that heforsook the sea for a time to lose himself in a haze of stormy ad-ventures as a soldier of fortune in Spanish American is known that during this period he gained the friendship ofGaribaldi, who for eleven years previous to 1848 had beenfighting in behaK of the revolutionary cause of Brazil. In 1851, at the age of twenty, the family records show thatWard was sailing as first mate of a bark from San Francisco to 604.
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