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Caspar F. Goodrich Collection

Call Number

MS 439.21

Date

1862-1933, inclusive

Creator

Extent

1.3 Linear feet (3 boxes, 1 volume)

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered while an instructor at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, extracts from the diary of his grandfather Captain James Goodrich, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Spanish-American War.

Biographical Note

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1847 Caspar Frederick Goodrich born Philadelphia, January 7
1861-1864 Attends US Naval Academy, graduating first in his class
1864-1865 Assigned to New York Navy Yard
1865-1868 With European squadron aboard Colorado and Frolic
1868 Promoted to Lieutenant Commander
1868-1871 Aboard Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron
1871-1874 At US Naval Academy; teaches physics and chemistry in 1871. Helps to found U.S. Naval Institute
1876 Daughter Eleanor born
1881 Son Caspar born, Florence, Italy
1881-1884 Aboard Lancaster, flagship for European Squadron
1882-1885 Inspector of ordnance, Washington Navy Yard
1883 Publishes "Report of the British naval and military operations in Egypt, 1882"
1886-1890 Officer in charge, Torpedo Station, Newport, RI
1889 Serves as President, Naval War College, Portsmouth, RI
1891 Torpedo Board formed to research uses of torpedoes in naval operations
1891-1896 Commands sail training ships Jamestown and Constellation, and gunboat Concord
1897 Promoted to captain
1897-1898 Serves as President, Naval War College, Portsmouth, RI
1898 Originates Coastal Signal Service (designed to warn shoreline populace of an impending coastal attack by foreign ships) and serves as its Director
1898 Commands St. Louis and Newark during the Spanish-American War, receiving the surrender of Manzanillo, Cuba, 12 August
1899-1900 Commands Iowa in Pacific Squadron
1900 Publishes "The naval side of the revolutionary war"
1900-1901 Lecturer, Naval War College, Portsmouth, RI
1901-1904 Commandant, Philadelphia Navy Yard
1904 Promoted to rear admiral
1904-1906 Named commander in chief, Pacific Fleet
1904-1909 Serves as President, U.S. Naval Institute
1907 Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich killed aboard USS Georgia, 15 July
1907-1909 Commandant, New York Navy Yard
1909 Retires from active duty
1914-1916 President, Naval History Society
1918 Recalled to active duty as Commander, Naval Training Unit, Princeton Graduate College
1918-1919: Officer in charge of Pay Officers Material School, Princeton Graduate College
1924 Writes memoir "Rope yarns from the old navy"
1925 Dies, Princeton, New Jersey
1931 Naval History Society publishes "Rope yarns from the old navy," edited by James Barnes, as eleventh volume of its publications
1933 Mrs. Goodrich donates the manuscript of "Rope yarns" to the Naval History Society
1936 Eleanor Goodrich (Mrs. C.T Davis) donates Goodrich collection to the Naval History Society

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series:

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  1. Series I. Correspondence
  2. Series II. Naval War College lectures and lecture notes
  3. Series III. Writings
  4. Series IV. James Goodrich journal transcripts
  5. Series V. Bound volumes

Scope and Content Note

The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered while a lecturer at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, and extracts from the diary of his grandfather, Captain James Goodrich.

The Goodrich Collection forms Series 21 of the Naval History Society Collection, comprising 53 individual collections named for famous naval figures and ships, as well as the records of the Naval History Society itself, and donated to the New-York Historical Society by the Naval History Society in 1925.

Access Restrictions

Open to qualified researchers.

Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to twenty exposures of stable, unbound material per day. (Researchers may not accrue unused copy amounts from previous days.)

Use Restrictions

Permission to quote from this collection in a publication must be requested and granted in writing. Send permission requests, citing the name of the collection from which you wish to quote, to

Library Director
The New-York Historical Society
Two West 77th Street
New York, NY 10024

The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials. Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication without permission of the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

This collection should be cited as NHSC-Goodrich, The New-York Historical Society.

Provenance

Donated to the New-York Historical Society in 1936 by the Naval History Society.

Collection processed by

Processed by Celia Hartmann

About this Guide

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Language: Description is in English.

Edition of this Guide

This version was derivedfrom Goodrich.xml

Repository

New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024