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Davis (CHARLES HENRY American) (II)

CHARLES HENRY, American rear-admiral, born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1845. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1864 and became an ensign in 1866.

He rose through the grades, becoming commander in 1885; captain in 1898; and rear-admiral in 1904. He served on various stations and duties and was connected with several expeditions for the determination of the difference of longitude by means of submarine telegraph cables. In 1897-1898 he was superintendent of the Naval Observatory. He served during the Spanish-American War as commander of the auxiliary cruiser, "Dixie." In 1904-1905 he served as a member of the International Commission of Inquiry on the North Sea incident. He was retired by the operation of law on Aug. 28, 1907. He was the author of several books on the determination of longitude. He wrote "Life of Rear-Admiral Davis" (1899).