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Friday, March 12, 2021

Midshipman Richard Dale's Sister Elizabeth Married George Campbell Read, USN Officer War of 1812 to Civil War-- Part 1

From Find A Grave.

GEORGE CAMPBELL READ

BIRTH:  9 January 1788, in Glastonbury, Connecticut

DEATH: 22 August 1862 in Philadelphia, Pa. (aged74)

BURIAL:  Laurel Hill Cemetery Philadelphia, Section 14, Lot 136

War of 1812 to Civil War Union Naval Officer.

He entered the U.S. Navy  as a midshipman in 1804 and spent the next  58 years of his life in the Naval Service.

--Brock-Perry

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