Stephen Champlin, USN-- Part 1: Commanded USS Scorpion at Battle of Lake Erie

From Wikipedia.

17 November 1789 to February 1870.

U.S. Naval officer in the War of 1812.  Born in Kingston, Rhode Island, and entered the U.S. Navy as a sailing master 22 May 1812.  Commanded the schooner USS Porcupine at the Battle of Lake Erie and captured the British ship HMS Little Belt.

He was later wounded when the Scorpion was taken on Lake Huron.  (The Scorpion was not the ship he was wounded on, it was the the USS Tigress.)

Retired from the Navy in 1855 and was later promoted to the rank of commodore on the Retired List.

Died at Buffalo, New York and was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.

Two ships in the Navy have been named for him.

--Brock-Perry