John M. Bowyer
Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rear Admiral John Marshall Bowyer (June 19, 1853 – March 15, 1912) was an officer in the United States Navy.[1]
Biography
Bowyer was born in Cass County, Indiana; and in 1870, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Iowa. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1874.[1]
Ensign Bowyer served aboard the ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". attached to the Northwestern Lake station. From 1881 through 1884, he was on the sloop Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in the Pacific.[1]
In 1887, he was assigned to special instruction in the torpedo service. Then he was detailed to the Asiatic Station where he served aboard the screw sloop Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. Bowyer returned to the Naval Academy from 1891 through 1894.[1]
For the next three years, Bowyer was attached to the North Atlantic Station, serving on the cruisers Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and the ill-fated battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[1]
At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Bowyer was assigned as executive officer aboard the gunboat Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".: and from 1898 through 1901, he served on the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1899.[1]
In 1901, Lieutenant Commander Bowyer was assigned to ordinance duty at the Washington Navy Yard.[1]
Subsequently, Lieutenant Commander Boyer commanded the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[1]
Bowyer reached the rank of captain in 1907.[1] He commanded the battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". on the "Great White Fleet" cruise around the world. Then he commanded the battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet.[1]
Captain Bowyer was the superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis from June 10, 1909,[2] through May 15, 1911.[1]
Bowyer reached flag rank in September 1911; and he retired from the Navy with the rank of rear admiral.[3]
He died in Tampa, Florida, on March 15, 1912.[1]
References
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- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Admiral Bowyer of Annapolis Dead; He Retired as Superintendent of the Naval Academy in September Last; Was only 59 years old; He Commanded the Illinois on the Famous Cruise Around the World", The New York Times, March 16, 1912. p. 13
- ↑ US Naval Academy: 1900s history
- ↑ "Navy Board Retires Fourteen Officers; Some Well Worth Keeping in Service, but Must Make Way for Younger Men.", The New York Times, July 4, 1911. p. 13.
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