Colección MS 18 - Private journal of an American naval officer

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AU PMB MS 18

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Private journal of an American naval officer

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  • 1848 - 1875 (Creación)

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1 reel; 35mm microfilm

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(8 May 1848 - 15 Oct 1899)

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Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Commander) Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason was founder and first head of the United States Office of Naval Intelligence, with the post of Chief Intelligence Officer (prior to it being designated as Director of Naval Intelligence in 1911). From a distinguished New York family, he was son of Theodorus Bailey Myers, a lawyer and a Colonel in the United States Army during the Civil War. He took his name Mason from his maternal grandfather who had no heirs. Graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868, before travelling extensively with the US Navy. Married to Edmonia Taylor Phelps in 1875. Mason retired in 1894 and died 1899 in New York State.

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Mason was born in New York City on May 8, 1848. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1864 and passed the examination for lieutenant on April 2, 1872. On September 1, 1872, he sailed from Philadelphia in the U.S.S. Omaha on a cruise to the Pacific. In Valparaiso, Chile, on February 14, 1873, he transferred to the U.S.S. Pensacola, a surveying vessel. In that ship, he visited other South American ports and arrived in Hawaii on February 13, 1875. After seven months in Hawaiian waters, he returned to the United States.

The journal gives a day-by-day account of Mason's cruise onboard the Omaha and Pensacola, prefaced by an outline of his previous career.

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The Library, University of Hawaii, Honolulu

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