{{Short description|American U.S. Navy officer}} {{Infobox military person | name = Charles Henry Poor | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1808|6|11}} | birth_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1882|11|5|1808|6|11}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | burial_place = [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]]<br />Washington, D.C., U.S. | burial_label = Place of burial | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = [[United States of America]] | branch = {{Flagicon image|US Naval Jack 24 stars.svg}} [[United States Navy]] | service_years = 1825–1870 | rank = [[File:USN Rear Admiral rank insignia.jpg|35px]] [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear admiral]] | unit = | commands = {{USS|Brooklyn|1858|2}}<br/>{{USS|Roanoke|1855|2}}<br/>{{USS|St. Louis|1861|2}}<br/>{{USS|Saranac|1848|2}}<br/>[[North Atlantic Squadron]] | battles = [[American Civil War]] | awards = | relations = | other_work = | spouse = Mattie Lindsay Stark | children = 2 }} Rear Admiral '''Charles Henry Poor''' (June 11, 1808 – November 5, 1882) was a [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] officer of the mid-19th century.
Born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], in 1808, Poor entered the Navy in 1825 and served nearly 30 years at sea. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], he commanded the {{USS|Brooklyn|1858|2}},<ref name="1861a">{{Cite web |url= http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1861a.html |title=Civil War Naval Chronology 1861 |work=usnlp.org |accessdate=22 October 2010 }}</ref> {{USS|Roanoke|1855|2}}, {{USS|St. Louis|1861|2}},<ref name="1861a"/><ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.historycentral.com/navy/cwnavalhistory/April1861.html |title=Naval History of the Civil War April 1861 |work=historycentral.com |accessdate=22 October 2010 }}</ref> and {{USS|Saranac|1848|2}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/cw/pacific.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980703174058/http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/cw/pacific.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 July 1998 |title=Civil War Naval Officers |work=history.navy.mil |accessdate=22 October 2010 }}</ref> He was promoted to rear admiral in 1868 and commanded the [[North Atlantic Squadron]]. Poor retired in 1870 from that post.
Poor married Mattie Lindsay Stark, daughter of Dr. Robert B. Stark.<ref name="cemetery">{{Cite web |url=https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/146e.pdf |title=Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Amphitheater) - Lot 146 East |website=[[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]] |access-date=2022-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302174130/https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/146e.pdf |archive-date=2022-03-02 |url-status=live}}</ref> His daughters Elizabeth Lindsey Poor and Annie Cunnigham Poor married rear admiral [[Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell]] (on June 15, 1871) and philanthropist [[Charles Carroll Glover]], respectively. Poor died on November 5, 1882, in Washington, D.C. He was interred at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="cemetery"/>
==Dates of rank== * [[Midshipman]], 1 March 1825 * [[Passed midshipman]], 4 June 1831 * Lieutenant, 22 December 1835 * [[Commander (United States)|Commander]], 14 September 1855 * [[Captain (United States)|Captain]], 16 July 1862 * [[Commodore (United States)|Commodore]], 2 January 1863 * [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear admiral]], 20 September 1868<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-p.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623174738/http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-p.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 June 2006 |title=US Navy Officers: 1778–1900 (P) |work=history.navy.mil |accessdate=22 October 2010 }}</ref>
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