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Apra Harbor,also called Port Apra,is a deep-water port on the western side of the United States territory of Guam. It is considered one of the best natural ports in the Pacific Ocean. The harbor is bounded by Cabras Island and the Glass Breakwater to the north and the Orote Peninsula in the south. Naval Base Guam and the Port of Guam are the two major users of the harbor. It is also a popular recreation area for boaters,surfers,scuba divers,and other recreationalists.
Willis Winter Bradley Jr. was a Naval officer,a recipient of the Medal of Honor,Naval Governor of Guam,and a U.S. Representative from California.
The Orote Peninsula is a four kilometer-long peninsula jutting from the west coast of the United States territory of Guam. A major geologic feature of the island,it forms the southern coast of Apra Harbor and the northern coast of Agat Bay. Its tip,Point Udall,is Guam's westernmost point and also the United States' westernmost point by travel,not longitude. The peninsula historically was the site of the important Chamorro village of Sumay,as well as Fort Santiago of the Spanish colonial period. In modern times,the peninsula is politically in the village of Santa Rita,but it is controlled in its entirety by Naval Base Guam.
Templin Morris Potts was a United States Navy Captain and the 11th Naval Governor of Guam. He held many important posts during his time in the Navy,including Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence,Naval attachéto Kaiser Wilhelm II,and aid for naval personnel. During the Spanish–American War,he participated in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba,after which he commanded a number of ships. In 1913,he was forced into retirement after not having spent a large enough portion of his service at sea. This forced retirement sparked outrage from many,and led to letters and marches of protest. A United States Senator even introduced a bill in Congress to have him re-instated. Though these efforts all ultimately failed,they led to greater scrutiny of the retirement board. As governor,he forbade the men under his command to marry native Chamorro women and increased funding to fight disease on Guam.
Luke McNamee was a United States Navy Admiral,businessman,and the 10th and 12th Naval Governor of Guam. He served in the Navy for 42 years,during which time he held multiple commands. During the Spanish–American War,he earned the Navy Cross,and later the Legion of Honour.
Alfred Walton Hinds was a United States Navy captain who served as the 17th Naval Governor of Guam. His early naval service included serving as Assistant Engineer aboard USS Texas,the United States Navy's first battleship,where he was reprimanded for an accident aboard in 1896. In 1911,Hinds joined the staff of the United States Naval Academy,heading the Department of Marine Engineering and Naval Construction,writing a textbook on the subject while there.
Frank Barrows Freyer was a United States Navy captain who served as the 14th Naval Governor of Guam. Freyer graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1902,having played several collegiate sports there. The Navy assigned him to many different ships,including having him participate in the Great White Fleet and its visit to Japan. Soon after,he was transferred to the Naval Base Guam,where he served as assistant to the Commandant before from November 5,1910,to January 21,1911,he became acting governor of the island. As governor,he suspended the licenses of all midwives on the island because of an alarming rate of infection,requiring them all to be re-certified. After George Salisbury relieved him of the position,Freyer became his aide.
Edmund Spence Root was a United States Navy Captain who served as the 34th Naval Governor of Guam. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1905,serving on many ships as an ensign. He served as the inaugural commanding officer of two ships:USS Rizal and USS Astoria. He served during World War I as commander of the U-boat hunting USS Rowan,for which he received a letter of commendation. As governor,he generated controversy by expelling 112 Japanese laborers from Guam. The Guam Museum also opened during his term of office.
George Andrew Alexander was a United States Navy Captain who served as the 35th Naval Governor of Guam. Prior to serving as governor,he commanded USS Medusa. As Governor of Guam,he greatly changed the judicial system by purging the island of leftover Spanish laws and replacing them with the Code of Guam. He also led an unsuccessful campaign to obtain United States citizenship for all residents of Guam. After his term as governor,he commanded USS Arizona before retiring.
Benjamin Vaughan McCandlish was a United States Navy flag officer who served as the 36th Naval Governor of Guam and was a recipient of the Navy Cross.
CatharineCarter Critcher was an American painter. A native of Westmoreland County,Virginia,she worked in Paris and Washington,D.C. before becoming,in 1924,a member of the Taos Society of Artists,the only woman ever elected to that body. She was a long time member of the Arts Club of Washington.
Pablo Ocampo y de León was a Filipino lawyer,nationalist,a member of the Malolos Congress,inaugural holder of the office of Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress alongside Benito Legarda and a member of the 2nd Philippine Legislature. He gave his service to his country and helped to bring about the peaceful transition of the Philippines from being a colony of Spain for more than 300 years to what will later become the American Commonwealth of the Philippines.
Juliet Bredon,also known as Juliet Lauru,was a writer. She lived in China for many years and wrote about her experiences there.
Sumay,also Sumai,was a village on the United States territory of Guam. It was located on the north coast of the Orote Peninsula along Apra Harbor. It was inhabited by Chamorro people before contact with Europeans. Sumay became a prosperous port town serving whalers and other sailors in the 1800s and the second most populous settlement on Guam after Hagåtña,the capital of the Spanish Mariana Islands. Following the Capture of Guam by the United States in 1898,the village was the site of Marine Barracks Guam. In the early 1900s,it was a link for two firsts connecting the United States and Asia:the first submarine communications cable for telegraph and the China Clipper,the first air service. After the Japanese invasion of Guam in 1941,the residents were evicted and the village turned into a Japanese military garrison. Sumay was leveled during the U.S. liberation of the island in 1944. The U.S. military prohibited the residents from returning,relocating them to the hills of nearby Sånta Rita-Sumai. In 1948,the U.S. military exercised eminent domain and took all private and commercial property at Sumay. Its former location is now on Naval Base Guam.
United States Naval Hospital Guam is a U.S. Navy medical facility on the U.S. territory of Guam. It provides a broad range of medical services to active-duty U.S. military personnel under Joint Region Marianas. Besides the main hospital,the hospital runs a medical clinic and a dental clinic on Naval Base Guam.
Annabel Parlett McMillin is an American former First Lady of Guam.
Margherita Wood McCandlish is an American former First Lady of Guam.
Sue Worthington Bradley was the American First Lady of Guam from 1929 to 1931. She was the wife of naval Governor of Guam Willis W. Bradley.
Margaret Aldrich Smith is an American former First Lady of Guam.
Mary Beardslee Hinds (1874-1952) was an American First Lady of Guam.
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