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Charles Washington Goldsborough
1779 - 1843
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Charles Washington Goldsborough Born in Maryland in 1793, Charles Goldsborough joined the Navy Department which was then located in Philadelphia and moved to the new capitol with the Department and became the Chief Clerk of the Navy where he served until his death in 1843. He is buried in Congressional Cemetery (R41/30). His residence was on G Street West. He has been described as the Samuel Pepys of our navy, for his organizational and logistical skills. Charles Goldsborough wrote one of the first histories of the U.S. Navy the United States Naval Chronicle in eight volumes published 1824. For much of his early tenure he was the only clerk in the Department (which grew very slowly, in 1812 the Department employed a total of 12 clerks); Goldsborough due to his long tenure and talent became extremely influential often assuming duties as acting Secretary of the Navy, see his letters to Commodore Thomas Tingey regarding workers wages dated 14 March 1809. His son Lewis M. Goldsborough became a Rear Admiral and was later Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard 1870-1873. |
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