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~ Rare Family Album of Capt. Cornelius M. Schoonmaker USN ~ ~ Please check out our great BUY IT NOW items! ~DESCRIPTION: Upper Level Antiques is proud to offer a wonderful antique family photo album with a rare photo of Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker who was Captain in the United States Navy. T are a lot of great images in this album including one neat tintype of a boy that is in an unusual pose and 23 wonderful CDVs including one of a two women and one of the women has her back to the camera plus many more excellent CDV portraits. May of the people in the album are identified including Inman R. Joyce, Louisa M. Joyce, Walter F. Livingston, Kate Leibert, Mary L. Joyce, Matilda Rogers Cooper - " Tillie" R. Cooper wife of Captain C.M. Schoonmaker, Emma Bibbey, Wm. Joyce, Robt Swift Joyce, Margictta Cooper, Anthony K. Joyce Sr., Anthony Calhoun, Howard Joyce, Charles D. Joyce, Mary Harrison Knight, Beesie Clark, CAPTAIN C.M. SCHOONMAKER, The album is made by William W. Harding and contains 1 tintype and 23 CDVs. Below is some information that we found on Captain Schoonmaker. Note the two photos (below) are for reference/comparison only and are not in this album. Please see our other listings for more rare and unusual antiques! Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USN, (1839-1889)Cornelius M. Schoonmaker was born on 2 February 1839. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in September 1854 and, following graduation in June 1859, served for about two years off the African west coast. In May-September 1861, during the first several months of the Civil War, he was a junior officer on the steam frigate Minnesota and participated with her in the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark. From late 1861 until after the end of the Civil War in 1865, Lieutenant Schoonmaker was Executive Officer of several ships, including the gunboats Wyandotte and Octorara , monitors Manhattan and Catskill , and the cruiser Augusta . While in the Manhattan , he took part in the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864 and in the subsequent campaign to capture Fort Morgan. In June 1865, Lieutenant Schoonmaker became Navigator of the sloop Juniata and, after promotion to Lieutenant Commander, was her Executive Officer. In 1867-70, he served as Navigator of the Asiatic Squadron flagship, USS Piscataqua (renamed Delaware in 1869). He received instruction in the emerging field of "torpedo" warfare in 1872, then was given command of the dispatch vessel Frolic . Commander Schoonmaker served at the New York Navy Yard in 1873-74, and was Inspector of the Eighth Light-House District, at New Orleans, until 1878. He took command of the new gunboat Nipsic in 1879, taking her to European waters in 1880-81.Schoonmaker was stationed at the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1882-85 and received promotion to the rank of Captain in October 1886. He became Commanding Officer of the steam sloop Vandalia , on the Pacific Station, in 1888. Captain Schoonmaker was among the many members of her company who lost their lives when Vandalia was sunk in the very destructive Apia, Samoa, hurricane of 15-16 March 1889 . Commander Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USNCabinet card photograph by Sebastianutti & Benque, Trieste. It was probably taken in 1880-1881, when Commander Schoonmaker commanded USS Nipsic in European waters. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear Admiral R.R. Belknap, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 75KB; 480 x 765 pixels Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USN Capt. Cornelius Marius Schoonmaker U.S.N. was born on 2. Feb... 
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