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Watmough, John Goddard

soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1793, in Wilmington, Del. He was aide-decamp to General Gaines, at New Orleans, and in the Creek Nation in 1814 and 1815; and resigned his commission in 1816. He was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1831. He was high sheriff of Philadelphia city and county in 1835; and was surveyor of that port in 1841. He died Nov. 29, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa.

WATMOUGH, PENDLETON GAINES, naval officer, was born May 3, 1828, in Whitemarsh, Pa. He entered the navy in 1841; served on the Brazil station, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific, and shared in the capture and occupation of California during the Mexican war. He returned home in 1847, the following year was graduated at the naval academy, served in the Mediterranean and Pacific and on the coast of China, and resigned in 1858. In 1861 he volunteered for the civil war and was reappointed in the navy. He resigned as lieutenant-commander in 1865, and in 1869-77 was collector of the port of Cleveland, Ohio.