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SILAS WRIGHT TERRY
vessels, the steel cruiser, and the latest battleship. He has commanded the sloops Portsmouth and Jamestown, built in the forties, the sail and steam corvette Marion, the steel cruiser Newark, and the battleship Iowa, the latter on her interesting voyage in company with the Oregon from New York through the straits of Magellan around to Puget Sound.
Rear Admiral Terry, October 1873, married Louisa, the elder daughter of the late Judge J. Thomson Mason of Annapolis, Maryland and they have a son and a daughter. Rear Admiral Terry was retired by operation of law on reaching the age of sixty-two, December 28, 1904, and resides in Washington, District of Columbia.
