John Vinton Dahlgren
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John Vinton Dahlgren was an American lawyer, Commissioner of Charities for the State of New York and the first husband of Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. The medical library building at Georgetown Universit
Dahlgren in 1889
Dahlgren Memorial Library Georgetown University Medical Center
John A. Dahlgren
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John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery.
John Vinton Dahlgren
…Wharton Drexel. The medical library building at Georgetown University is named in his honor. Dahlgren was born in Valparaíso, Chile, the son of Admiral John A. Dahlgren and Sarah Madeleine Vinton, daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton. General William Tecumseh Sherman and wife Ellen were his godparents. Dahlgren's…
Dahlgren in uniform, c. 1862
Rear Admiral Dahlgren, on board the USS Pawnee, beside a 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle, one of his bottle-shaped cast-iron cannons, c. 1864
Dahlgren during the American Civil War
Dahlgren's tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery