He took an active part in the Mexican War, and in 1852-54 commanded the expedition to Japan, with which country he negotiated an important treaty, ^larch 21, 1854.

Another great naval hero, Admiral D. G. Farragut, was a resident of Westchester County (Hastings, in the town of Greenburgh) in 18<51-62.

John Orde Creighton, another commodore of the United States navy, who was born in New York City, died at Sing Sing, October 13, 1838. Commodore Josejih B. Hull, of the Ignited States navy, was also born in Westchester.

John Lorimer Worden, who commanded the ironclad " Monitor " in the famous engagement with the ironclad "Merrimac," in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, was born at Mount Pleasant on March 12, 1817. He was appointed a midshipman in the I'nited States n&xy on January 12, 1835; lieutenant, November 30, 1846; commander, May 27, 1862 ; captain, February 3, 1863 ; and commodore. May 27, 1868. In April, 1861, he was sent with dispatches to Fort Pickens, and captured by the Confederates, and kept in prison seven months. In the engagement with the " Merrimac," Captain Worden's eyes were severely injured

by the explosion of a shell from the " Merrimac '" upon the eyehole of the pilot-house. In the command of the ironclad " Montauk," of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, he engaged Fort McAllister, January 27, 1 863, and on February 28th attacked and destroyed the privateer steamer " Nashville," under the guns of that fort. He was in the attack of Charleston, under Du})ont, April 7, 1863, and on December 1, 1869, was appointed superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis.