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Author: J. R. Gilfillan and H. E. Riley

ENSIGN FRANK B. GAYLORD.

   Frank B. Gaylord, son of William M. Gaylord of this city, served throughout
the war as an ensign on the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite. Prior to the war he had
been for several years a member and officer of the Michigan Naval Reserves of
Detroit, the finest body of Naval Militia in the country. Ensign Gaylord was the
leading spirit in securing the U. S. gunboat Yantic as a practice-ship for the
Reserves, and after government engineers had reported that the vessel could not
be taken through the canals between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario Ensign Gaylord
made a tour of the route, took measurements and devised a plan by which a
gunboat was successsully transferred to the lake station.

   The Yosemite saw considerable active service during the war. She conveyed the
first party of American marines that landed on Cuban soil, at Guantanamo Bay,
was engaged in several skirmishes with Spanish gunboats, and participated in
bombardments of shore batteries. The most important engagement was with two
Spanish gunboats and the forts in San Juan harbor, Porto Rico, when the little
cruiser was under fire for nearly four hours, finally driving off the gunboats
and silencing the forts. Ensign Gaylord's station in action was in charge of the
powder magazine.

   Though not a native of Northampton Ensign Gaylord lived here from babyhood
until he was 20 years old, when he entered the iron business at Detroit in which
his father was interested. He is a man of fine character. and attractive
personality and has many friends in Northampton. After the cessation of
hostilities he returned to private life and is now manager of a large iron
business at Deseronto, Ontario.


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NORTHAMPTON IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
BY
JAMES R. GILFILLAN
AND
HERBERT E. RILEY.

ILLUSTRATED.

PRESS OF
ENTERPRISE PRINTING COMPANY
EASTHAMPTON, MASS.
1899.

Copyright, 1899,
by J. R. Gilfillan and H. E. Riley.


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