Charles Fremont Pond Explained

Charles Fremont Pond
Nickname:Frog[1]
Birth Date:18 October 1856
Allegiance:United States
Branch:United States Navy
Serviceyears:1879-1918
Rank:Rear Admiral
Commands:USS Iroquois, USS Pennsylvania[2]
Relations:Emma McHenry Keith (wife)

Charles Fremont Pond (October 18, 1856 – July 4, 1929) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Pond entered the US Naval academy on June 12, 1872, and graduated on June 20, 1876.[3]

In 1889, while surveying the coast and islands of Baja California on the USS Ranger, Pond collected numerous plants, which he sent to his friend, botanist Edward Lee Greene.[4] Greene named the cactus Mammillaria pondii in his honor.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Miller, W.M. . Eugene Ely, Daredevil Aviator: First Shipboard Landing and Takeoff . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers . 2014 . 978-1-4766-1798-5 . 2024-06-14 . 158.
  2. Web site: Charles Fremont Pond . This Day in Aviation . 2024-06-14 . 2024-06-14.
  3. Book: Hamersly, L.R. . The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps . L.R. Hamersly Company . 1902 . 2024-06-14 . 249.
  4. Web site: Pittonia : Greene, Edward Lee, 1843-1915 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive . Internet Archive . 2023-03-25 . 2024-06-14.