People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Prominent Naval Man Dead. [ARTICLE]

Prominent Naval Man Dead.

Washington, June 20.—John W. Easby, United States navy, retired, is dead, aged 75 years. lie was an inspector of government gunboats during the late war, and subsequently became a naval constructor. During President Garfield’s administration he was appointed chief of the bureau of construction and repair, navy department, with the relative rank of commodore.