![]() ![]() ![]() Wool’s command in the Mexican War, and was afterward stationed successively at New Orleans, Washington, Detroit, St. He reentered the military service, as a paymaster with the rank of Major in March 1842, was chief paymaster of General John E. He was assigned to frontier duty, and twice crossed the plains to the Rocky Mountains. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822, appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Infantry, promoted 1st Lieutenant in 1828, and became a Captain in the First Dragoons in 1833. He married a daughter of Richard Stockton the signer his son David, soldier, b. In 1804 he was elected professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Princeton, but resigned in 1808 to take charge of the Bordertown Academy, and in 1810 became a Chaplain of the Navy. In 1794, he was principal of a school near Trenton, N.J. He was appointed a Brigade Chaplain in 1775, and served throughout the Revolution, and received the public thanks of General Washington, for valuable aid in the Battle of Monmouth. ![]() ![]() He was the son of a British officer, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1773, and immediately afterward made a missionary tour through Virginia, and Pennsylvania. ![]()
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