Jacob Crowninshield
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Jacob Crowninshield was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from Massachusetts and was an appointee to the position of U.S. secretary of the Navy, which he never filled. His bro
Posthumous portrait by Robert Cutler Hinckley, c. 1880
Arent S. Crowninshield
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Arent Schuyler Crowninshield was an American rear admiral of the United States Navy. He saw combat during the Civil War, and after the war held high commands both afloat and ashore.
Jacob Crowninshield
…did successfully hold the post; the Crowninshield family in general was prominent in early American maritime affairs. He was the grandfather of Arent S. Crowninshield. Jacob Crowninshield was born March 31, 1770, in Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. As a young man, he went into partnership with three of his…
Capt. Arent S. Crowninshield