Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — Died a Rear Admiral. [ARTICLE]

Died a Rear Admiral.

Boston, Mass., dispatch: Information from Washington shows that naptain Richard P. Leary, U. 8. N., who died at Chelsea recently, • died a Rear Admiral, without being conscious of the fact. It was a promption which he had looked for, and it is said to have been the one thing which troubled him in his last moments. The appointment was made the day before he died, but it was on!/ when his brother-in-law, Dr. Fairfax Irwin, returned from his funeral at Annapolis to Chelsea that> the appointment was found.