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Arent S. Crowninshield

Arent Schuyler Crowninshield
Maine Crowninshield.jpg
Born (1843-03-14)March 14, 1843
New York
Died May 14, 1908(1908-05-14) (aged 65)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Place of burial Arlington National Cemetery
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch Seal of the United States Department of the Navy.svg United States Navy
Years of service 1863–c.1900
Rank USN Rear Admiral rank insignia.jpg Rear Admiral
Commands held Portsmouth
St. Mary's
Kearsarge
Maine
Battles/wars American Civil War
Spanish–American War
Relations Crowninshield family

Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (March 14, 1843 – May 27, 1908) was an 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.

Born in New York, he was the grandson of Jacob Crowninshield (appointed Navy secretary under President Jefferson, but who died before taking up the office), and grandnephew of George Crowninshield Jr. (adventuring owner of Cleopatra's Barge, first yacht to cross the Atlantic) and Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, United States Secretary of the Navy from 1815 to 1818. Some sources give his first name as Alton.

Arent graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 28 May 1863 and immediately went into action in the American Civil War, participating in the assault on Fort Fisher while serving on the steam sloop Ticonderoga.

After the war, he rose steadily through the ranks, becoming lieutenant on 10 November 1866, and commander on 25 March 1880.

He married Mary Bradford (1844–1913), daughter of the writer Sarah Hopkins Bradford, in Dresden, Germany on July 27, 1870. His wife became a published writer herself.

He commanded the training ship Portsmouth from 1878 to 1881, the school ship St. Mary's of the New York Nautical School from 1887 to 1891, and the sloop-of-war Kearsarge from February 1892 to November 1893.


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