CONE, HUTCH IN SON INGHAM

(1871), an American naval officer, b. at Brooklyn, N. Y., son of Daniel Newman and Annette Ingham Cone. After graduating from the Florida Agricultural College he entered the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1894. During the Spanish-American War he served on the U.S.8. Baltimore and participated in the Battle of Manila Bay. He afterwards served on various duties and stations, including head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering with the rank of rear admiral and was also marine supt. of the Panama Canal. He saw foreign service during the World War and was wounded on board the 8.8. Lienster, sunk in the Irish Sea by a German submarine in 1918.