9/6/1862 Washington Navy Department Acting Master Boynton Ives Providence Faxon For Sale
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9/6/1862 Washington Navy Department Acting Master Boynton Ives Providence Faxon:
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9/6/1862 Washington Navy Department Acting Master Boynton Ives Providence Faxon 9/6/1862 Washington Navy Department Acting Master Boynton Ives Providence Faxon September 6, 1862 Official Washington Navy Department sent to Acting Master William Boynton Ives in Providence, Rhode Island From Wm. Faxon, Chief Clerk
Ives,Thomas Boynton.
Acting Master, 3 September, 1862. Acting VolunteerLieutenant, efficient and gallant conduct, 26 May, 1863. ActingVolunteer Lieutenant Commander, 7 November, 1864. Died at Havre,France, 17 November 1865.
William Faxon (1822–1883) was a journalist who servedas Chief Clerk of the United States Navy from 1861 to 1866 and as United StatesAssistant Secretary of the Navy from 1866 until 1869.
Biography
In 1857, Faxon formed a partnership with Joseph RoswellHawley, Faxon & Hawley, which purchased the Hartford Evening Press,a Republican newspaper founded by Gideon Welles in 1856. They soon invited CharlesDudley Warner and Stephen A. Hubbard to join their newspaper.
In 1861, President of the United States Abraham Lincolnappointed Gideon Welles as United States Secretary of the Navy. Welles wantedto appoint Faxon as Chief Clerk of the Navy at this time, but the politicallyinfluential Francis Preston Blair and his son Montgomery Blair pressuredLincoln to appoint Gustavus Fox instead. As a compromise, the post of AssistantSecretary of the Navy was created for Fox, and Faxon joined the United StatesDepartment of the Navy as a clerk in March 1861, and then succeeded Fox aschief clerk on July 31, 1861. As chief clerk of the Navy during the AmericanCivil War, Faxon was in charge of the records, correspondence, and personnel ofthe Office of the Secretary of the Navy and oversaw the finances of theDepartment of the Navy. On June 1, 1866, Faxon succeeded Fox as AssistantSecretary of the Navy, holding this office until 1869.
Faxon died in 1883.