the thanks of the Government. On the 23d of September, 1861, at his own request, he was relieved from his command, and in August, 1862, he was made a Rear-Admiral, on the retired list, and soon after this he was President of the Naval Commission to locate a new Navy Yard. In 1863 he had command of the Navy Yard and station at Charleston, S. C., remained there till 1866. In 1869 he was Port Admiral at New York, and served three years. March 3d, 1873, by Act of Congress, retired officers are prohibited from being employed by Government, except in time of war. Since that time the Admiral is permitted to enjoy a retired life, at his residence, in Brooklyn, N. Y. For a more full account of the noble and daring deeds and brilliant exploits of Admiral Stringham, see _The American Crisis of 1861-'62_, by Frank Moore. I. LEBBEUS LATHROP, son of Hannah Horton and Isaiah Vail, Jr. (_Silas_, _Barnabas_, _Barnabas_, _Caleb I._), born in Goshen, N. Y., 27 Oct., 1791; married SALLY MOORE, a lineal descendant of Thomas Moore, of Southold, L. I. Children, probably all born in Newburgh, N. Y., where they settled soon after marriage: 1. Charles. 2. Hector. 3. Azuba. 4. Nathaniel. 5. Hannah. 6. Wilmot. 7. Richard. 8. Sally. 9. Egbert. 10. Anna. "He early engaged in the business of transporting Orange County products to New York, and soon found himself in command of a first-class sloop, of extra heavy tonnage, and his carrying trade of merchandise, passengers, &c., became very extensive. The immense traffic at White Hall Street, East River, prompted Captain Vail to seek some other quarters, more commodious than that he occupied--the city at that time having a population of only about 100,000. He soon found an old acquaintance, formerly a Miss Horton, of West Chester Co., N. Y., who had married Mr. James Van Nostrand, a wholesale grocer. An arrangement was soon consummated, by which Van Nostrand was to move his stock to West Street, and Vail to leave East River and land at the Albany Basin, adjacent to Van Nostrand's store, which arrangement was at once announced to the Hudson River boatmen at White Hall, when, in derision, they laughed at the young Captain's presumption; but Vail and Van Nostrand soon had the laugh on the White Hall advocates, for the entire craft from Orange County soon followed Capt. Vail, discharging regularly his heavy loads of produce from the _Bayard_,[7] the first to establish a regular wharf for Orange County produce and passengers on the North River side of New York, and Van Nostrand's grocery was the first ever located in West Street. The following summer Capt. Vail's eyesight became impaired, and he moved to Goshen, New York, where he and Mrs. Vail were popular hotel keepers until the year 1834, when he was elected Clerk of Orange County, and re-elected in 1837, and again in