Beale

Edward Fitzgerald, an American diplomatist, born in Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1822; graduated at the United States Naval Academy; in 1842, and at the beginning of the Mexican War was a igned to duty in California, under Commodore Steck: ton. After the war, he resigned hi: naval commi ion and was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and New Mexico. He was commi ioned a Brigadier-General in the army by President Pierce. He served in the Union army in the Civi! War, and at its close —— in stock raising in Los Angeles, Cal., till 1876 when President Grant appointed hin United States Minister to Austria He died in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1898.