17 Facts About Richardson Clover

Richardson Clover was an officer of the United States Navy.

Richardson Clover was socially prominent in Washington, DC, and served as US Naval Attache to Great Britain.

Richardson Clover commanded the Wisconsin on the Asiatic Station and served as president of the Board of Inspection and Survey.

Richardson Clover was promoted to rear admiral in 1907 and retired in 1908.

Richardson Clover's father was an artist who later became an Episcopal minister, serving congregations in Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, and New York.

Richardson Clover was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Missouri in July 1863 and graduated in 1867.

Richardson Clover had a varied career in the service including several hydrographic assignments.

Richardson Clover was again assigned to the Coast Survey in 1881, first in the Washington office and then commanding the schooner Palinurus surveying Long Island Sound.

Richardson Clover supervised construction of the steamer Carlile P Patterson and became her first commander.

In 1890 Richardson Clover was named by President Benjamin Harrison in Executive Order No 28 as a member of the newly created Board on Geographic Names, where he served as secretary of the board under Thomas Mendenhall, the first chairman of the Board on Geographic Names.

Richardson Clover served on the Phythian Board on the reorganization of the Navy.

Richardson Clover was appointed Chief Intelligence Officer of the Office of Naval Intelligence from November 1897 to May 1898 and then again from October 1898 to February 1900.

However, when the war started, Richardson Clover left his position to take an active combat position as commanding officer of the gunboat Bancroft from May to September 1898.

Richardson Clover died on October 14,1919, aboard a Union Pacific train, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming while en route from San Francisco, California to Washington, DC He is buried with his wife in Arlington National Cemetery.

Richardson Clover was married on May 19,1886, to Mary Eudora Miller.

Richardson Clover was the daughter of Senator John F Miller from California, the wealthy former head of the Alaska Commercial Company.

Mary Eudora Miller Richardson Clover never married and died October 11,1954, in San Francisco.