The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 126
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126 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
William Oliver, Third Lieutenant... ........ Sept. 10, 1840, Alive
Cyrus Cummings, Fourth Lieutenant........ Sept. 10, 1840, Alive
C. B. Snow, Lieutenant ................. . .Mar. 10, 1842, Alive
D. C. Wilbur, Lieutenant. ................. .June 1, 1842, Dead
M. H. Dearborn, Lieutenant. ................ July 1, 1842, Dead
R. M. Clark, Surgeon .....................Nov. 22, 1840, Dead
Thomas P. Anderson, Surgeon ........... Sept. 10, 1841, Dead
J. B. Gardner, Surgeon ................ ..July 20, 1842, Alive
Norman Hurd, Purser ..................... Jan. 16, 1839, Alive
F. T. Wells, Purser ......................... June 10, 1839, Dead
J. F. Stephens, Purser ......................Sept. 21, 1841, Alive
W. T. Brennan, Purser ...................July 21, 1842, Dead
On Brennan's death, James W. Moore was appointed to take his
place. In the list of those officers who petitioned Congress to. be
incorporated in the United States navy, appears the name of Wil-
liam E. Glenn, "late master of the line of promotion." This care.-
fully prepared list, added to the names mentioned in the body of
the work, constitutes the personnel of the body of officers of the
Texan navy.
A few additional notes regarding some of these may be of in-
terest. William Seeger was commander of the San Antonio when
she was lost. A. J. Lewis died some time in the fifties. William
A. Tennison was alive in 1858. Thomas P. Anderson, surgeon,
had a son, Philip Anderson, who was living in Galveston in 1900.
Mrs. R. W. Shaw of Galveston is a granddaughter of Norman
Hurd. The midshipmen, being boys at the same time, have natu-
rally been the last survivors. Of these Major John E. Barrow died
in New York in 1902; W. J. D. Pierpont died in December, 1903.
Of all the officers of the Texas navy, but one is alive today, Mid-
shipman George F. Fuller, of Ozone Park,, New Jersey. Com-
'In Fuller's "Sketch of the Texas Navy" (THE QUABTERLY, VII, 223,
226), this name appears as "Wm. H. Glenn." Fuller also includes Robert
Bradford and Edward Mason as midshipmen on board the Austin in 1842
and 1843 and Middleton on board the Wharton, and mentions that Dr.
Peacock acted as assistant surgeon to Dr. Anderson of the Austin. He
also states that in Walker's time, Faysoux commanded the whole Nica-
raguan navy, consisting of one schooner with which he blew up the whole
Costa Rican navy, consisting of one brig. Faysoux was afterwards mate
of the Greole in its Cuban expedition, his commanding officer being Lewis,
formerly third lieutenant of the Wharton.
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