Seaton Schroeder
| Seaton Schroeder | |
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Seaton Schroeder
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| Born |
August 17, 1849 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | October 19, 1922 (aged 73) Washington, D.C. |
| Place of burial | Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1864–1922 |
| Rank | Rear Admiral |
| Commands held |
Vesuvius Yosemite Brutus Virginia Atlantic Fleet |
| Battles/wars |
American Civil War Spanish–American War World War I |
Seaton Schroeder (17 August 1849 – 19 October 1922) was an admiral of the United States Navy.
Schroeder was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Frances Schroeder, the United States Ambassador to Sweden. His mother was the daughter of William Winston Seaton, who, with his brother-in-law, Joseph Gales, owned and edited the National Intelligencer. Seaton served as the Mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1840 to 1850.
He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1864, which, because of the American Civil War, was in Newport, Rhode Island. After graduating in June 1868 he served with the Pacific Fleet in 1868-69 under Admiral John Rodgers in screw sloop, Benicia, and fought in the Salt River near Seoul, Korea. His sea tours took him to Alaska, Japan, and the Philippines in Saginaw, to the West Indies in Canandaigua, and on a world cruise on Swatara.
Schroeder married Maria Campbell Bache Wainwright on January 16, 1879. Maria Wainwright, born March 14, 1856 in Washington, D.C., came from a family of several American statesmen — she was the great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, the great-granddaughter of Treasury Secretary Alexander J. Dallas, the granddaughter of Texas legislator Richard Bache, Jr., a niece of Vice President George Mifflin Dallas, the daughter of naval officer Richard Wainwright, and the sister of Admiral Richard Wainwright. She died in 1925 in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
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