Ensign Charles Emerson Hovey Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: HOVEY
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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ENSIGN CHARLES EMERSON HOVEY, U.S.N., was born in
Portsmouth, N. H., January 10, 1885, and was killed in action in the
Philippine Islands, September 24, 1911. He was a son of the late Rev.
Henry Emerson Hovey and Sarah Louise (Folsom) Hovey.
     Charles Emerson Hovey attended the Portsmouth, K. H., public
schools and the Portsmouth, N. H:, High School, graduating from the
latter in the class of 1902. He attended Holderness School at Plymouth,
N. H., one year and then, for one year, was a student at the Boston
(Mass.) School of Technology. In 1904 he was appointed to the United
States Naval Academy, from which he graduated with his class in 1907.
While in attendance at the Naval Academy he became president of the
Naval Academy Y. M. C. A., which was brought, through his efforts,
up to a very fine standard. He was on the Battleship "Ohio" on its
trip around the world.
     He published (1911) the "Watch Officer's Manual, United States
Navy." The Manual covers in a brief and accessible way all the duties
of the officer of the Deck of the Navy and of the Naval Militia, as re-
quired by regulations and custom. This was a work of great impor-
tance and was admirably conceived and executed and received the hearty

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recommendations of naval officers and authorities on naval affairs. This
work was revised in accordance with the 1913 Navy Regulations by
Lieutenant-Commander Austin Kautz, U.S.N.
     Ensign Charles Emerson Hovey, U.S.N., was ordered to the phil-
ippines in 1910. He was commanding a detachment of men £rom the
U.S.S; Pampanga, September 24, 1911, in pursuit of outlaw Moros in
the Island of Basilan when his party was ambushed and he himself mor-
tally wounded. He was a member of the Delta Psi, a literary college
fraternity, and he was also a member of the New York Yacht Club
and of the Lambs Club of New York.
     His memory is preserved in Portsmouth by a very handsome and
artistic drinking fountain erected near the post office. It was made in
Italy. The basin and pedestal are of Carrara marble, surmounted by a
bronze figure of young Neptune (renaissance), originally in a palace
garden in Sienna. A marble memorial tablet has been placed in St. John's
Church in Ensign Hovey's memory by his young friends. His remains
are interred in St. John's Church Yard.