DEATH OF LIEUTENANT WOODWORTH CONFIRMED
A cablegram was received in this city from the United States Consul office at Valparaiso, Chile, yesterday confirming the news of the death in that city of Selim E. Woodworth. The death of Mr. Woodworth marks another epoch in the annals of a family already famous. His father was the late Commodore Woodworth of the United States navy, and his grandfather Samuel Woodworth, will long be remembered as the author of "The Old Oaken Bucket." A brother, William, occupies a chair at Harvard University.
Selim E. Woodworth entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1872, graduating with honors tn 1877. He followed the sea until 1891, when he resigned with the rank of lieutenant. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he volunteered his services and was assigned to the collier Nero, which was convoyed to the Philippines by the United Slates monitor Monadnock. He performed his duties in and around Manila during the troublous times following, and at the end of the war returned to this country and tendered his resignation.
His health having suffered in the Philippines, he secured passage on the German ship Luxor, bound for New York. He never rounded the Horn, however. His heart began to trouble him and he was sent ashore at Valparaiso for treatment. The attack proved fatal, and he succumbed to the inevitable on August 8. He is survived by a widow, two bright little boys and a girl, who live at Berkeley. His mother. Mrs. Dennison, resides in Cambridge; Mass., with his brother William. Two other brothers, Frederick A. and Benjamin R. preside in this city.
--San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 82, 21 August 1900
A cablegram was received in this city from the United States Consul office at Valparaiso, Chile, yesterday confirming the news of the death in that city of Selim E. Woodworth. The death of Mr. Woodworth marks another epoch in the annals of a family already famous. His father was the late Commodore Woodworth of the United States navy, and his grandfather Samuel Woodworth, will long be remembered as the author of "The Old Oaken Bucket." A brother, William, occupies a chair at Harvard University.
Selim E. Woodworth entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1872, graduating with honors tn 1877. He followed the sea until 1891, when he resigned with the rank of lieutenant. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he volunteered his services and was assigned to the collier Nero, which was convoyed to the Philippines by the United Slates monitor Monadnock. He performed his duties in and around Manila during the troublous times following, and at the end of the war returned to this country and tendered his resignation.
His health having suffered in the Philippines, he secured passage on the German ship Luxor, bound for New York. He never rounded the Horn, however. His heart began to trouble him and he was sent ashore at Valparaiso for treatment. The attack proved fatal, and he succumbed to the inevitable on August 8. He is survived by a widow, two bright little boys and a girl, who live at Berkeley. His mother. Mrs. Dennison, resides in Cambridge; Mass., with his brother William. Two other brothers, Frederick A. and Benjamin R. preside in this city.
--San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 82, 21 August 1900
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT WOODWORTH CONFIRMED
A cablegram was received in this city from the United States Consul office at Valparaiso, Chile, yesterday confirming the news of the death in that city of Selim E. Woodworth. The death of Mr. Woodworth marks another epoch in the annals of a family already famous. His father was the late Commodore Woodworth of the United States navy, and his grandfather Samuel Woodworth, will long be remembered as the author of "The Old Oaken Bucket." A brother, William, occupies a chair at Harvard University.
Selim E. Woodworth entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1872, graduating with honors tn 1877. He followed the sea until 1891, when he resigned with the rank of lieutenant. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he volunteered his services and was assigned to the collier Nero, which was convoyed to the Philippines by the United Slates monitor Monadnock. He performed his duties in and around Manila during the troublous times following, and at the end of the war returned to this country and tendered his resignation.
His health having suffered in the Philippines, he secured passage on the German ship Luxor, bound for New York. He never rounded the Horn, however. His heart began to trouble him and he was sent ashore at Valparaiso for treatment. The attack proved fatal, and he succumbed to the inevitable on August 8. He is survived by a widow, two bright little boys and a girl, who live at Berkeley. His mother. Mrs. Dennison, resides in Cambridge; Mass., with his brother William. Two other brothers, Frederick A. and Benjamin R. preside in this city.
--San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 82, 21 August 1900
A cablegram was received in this city from the United States Consul office at Valparaiso, Chile, yesterday confirming the news of the death in that city of Selim E. Woodworth. The death of Mr. Woodworth marks another epoch in the annals of a family already famous. His father was the late Commodore Woodworth of the United States navy, and his grandfather Samuel Woodworth, will long be remembered as the author of "The Old Oaken Bucket." A brother, William, occupies a chair at Harvard University.
Selim E. Woodworth entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1872, graduating with honors tn 1877. He followed the sea until 1891, when he resigned with the rank of lieutenant. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he volunteered his services and was assigned to the collier Nero, which was convoyed to the Philippines by the United Slates monitor Monadnock. He performed his duties in and around Manila during the troublous times following, and at the end of the war returned to this country and tendered his resignation.
His health having suffered in the Philippines, he secured passage on the German ship Luxor, bound for New York. He never rounded the Horn, however. His heart began to trouble him and he was sent ashore at Valparaiso for treatment. The attack proved fatal, and he succumbed to the inevitable on August 8. He is survived by a widow, two bright little boys and a girl, who live at Berkeley. His mother. Mrs. Dennison, resides in Cambridge; Mass., with his brother William. Two other brothers, Frederick A. and Benjamin R. preside in this city.
--San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 82, 21 August 1900
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