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Chief Boatswain John Samuel Croghan, ( – 6 February, 1910) served as a warrant officer in the United States Navy.

Life & Career

John Samuel Croghan was born in New York.

Croghan was commissioned as a Boatswain on 19 May, 1898. Up to this date he had served as an enlisted man for seven years, eleven months, and eighteen days.[1]

Croghan was promoted to Chief Boatswain on 10 May, 1904.[2]

Croghan was ordered to prepare for command of the armed yacht Wasp based at Norfolk, Virginia on 29 December, 1906 and took up the appointment in the new year.[3][4]

Croghan died in the sinking of the steam tug Nina in a storm off the Delmarva peninsula on 6 February, 1910. His widow, Ollie M. Croghan, was appointed to a clerical position at the Department of Justice by Executive Order 1684 of President William Howard Taft on 17 January, 1913.[5][6]

See Also

Bibliography

  • United States Civil Service Commission (1914). Thirtieth Annual Report of the United States Civil Service Commission for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 1913. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Belmar H. Shepley
Captain of U.S.S. Wasp
Jan, 1907[7] – Sep, 1907[8]
Succeeded by
James A. Campbell, Jr.
Preceded by
Stephen McCarthy
Captain of U.S.S. Nina
21 Dec, 1908[9] – 6 Feb, 1910
Succeeded by
Vessel Lost

Footnotes

  1. Register of Officers, 1900. pp. 66-67.
  2. Register of Officers, 1905. pp. 78-79.
  3. Register of Officers, 1907. p. 84.
  4. "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 5 January, 1907. Vol. XLI, No. 1,412, p. 23.
  5. Civil Service Annual Report, 1913, p. 121.
  6. Wikisource: Executive Order 1684
  7. "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 5 January, 1907. Vol. XLI, No. 1,412, p. 23.
  8. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 88.
  9. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 92.