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John A. Inglis was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 26, 1813, the son of well known Presbyterian minister James Inglis, then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in the city. He entered Dickinson College and graduated with the class of 1829 and then taught school for a time in Carlisle,...
Robert McClelland was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1807, the son of a prominent Franklin County doctor, John McClelland, and his wife, Eleanor Bell McCulloh. The father had studied medicine under Benjamin Rush and perhaps not coincidentally the younger McClelland entered...
Johnston Moore was born on September 8, 1809 at Mooredale in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania the only survivor of two sons of James and Nancy Johnston Moore. The Moore family was one of the oldest and largest landed proprietors in the county, a forebearer purchasing several thousand acres on...
Birth: June 29, 1811; Baltimore, Maryland
Death: April 24, 1883 (age 72); Washington, D.C
Military Service: USN, 1834-73
Unit: USS Brandywine; USS Vincennes; Relief; USS Peacock; USS Princeton; H.M.S. Agamemnon; USS Macedonian; USS Hartford;...
