- Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle
Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle (
June 14 1867 –December 29 1950 ) was aRear Admiral in theUnited States Navy and a veteran of theSpanish-American War andWorld War I . He was also the third militaryGovernor of the United States Virgin Islands . Late in life, he also became an author and published a book on his family'sgenealogy .Kittelle was born in
Peekskill, New York . He graduated from theUnited States Naval Academy in 1889. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1921 and made Governor of the Virgin Islands, a position he held only until 1922. Almost immediately on becoming Governor, he sacked the civilian colonial assembly. In 1927, while aCommandant of the Sixteenth Naval District, he exposed a plot by "communists " to destroy a shipyard atCavite . He retired in 1931.In 1946, Kittelle wrote "The Ketel family,: Also (Ketele, Kettele, Kettel, Kittelle and Kittle)", a history of his family tree.
References
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/sar/member-K.htm "The 1899 Membership Register for The Empire State Society, S.A.R."]
*"SUMNER KITTELLE, RETIRED ADMIRAL." "New York Times". New York, N.Y.: Dec 30, 1950. pg. 13, 1 pgsuccession
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