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Home Town Kings County (Brooklyn)
Last Address Orlando, Orange County, Florida
Date of Passing Feb 12, 1941
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Hutchinson Ingham Cone, Sr. was a famous naval engineer and officer.
During the Spanish-American War, Hutchinson Cone, Sr. served as Assistant Engineer in the U.S.S. Baltimore during Commodore George Dewey's victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines in 1898.
In 1900, he was a Lieutenant on board the U.S.S. Prairie. Cone supervised the shift from coal to oil fuel to increase the operational radius of the U. S. Navy, and he was involved in trials of a turbo-electric propulsion system.
He commanded the U.S.S. Dixie from April 1914 until July 1915, when he became Marine Superintendent of the Panama Canal. Later, he commanded naval air forces in Europe during World War I. Cone was wounded while freeing lifeboats on the RMS Leinster, on which he was a passenger; for his lifesaving actions he was made an honorary commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Cone retired from the Navy in 1922 as Engineer-in-Chief, with the rank of Rear Admiral. He later served with Charles Lindbergh on the Board of Directors of the Guggenheim Fund to support flight.
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The USS Cone (DD-866), named for the Rear Admiral, was a World War II-era destroyer that saw action in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In 1962, it recovered astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn after their historic manned space flights.
Hutchinson was born on April 26, 1871 in Benton, Florida, the son of Daniel Newman Cone, Jr., later a member of the Florida legislature, and Annette Ingham Cone.
He had three siblings and was a great-great-grandson of a Revolutionary War hero, Captain William Henry Cone; a great-grandson of William Cone, Jr. who served in both the Georgia and Florida legislatures; and a grandson of Daniel Newman Cone, Sr., a law enforcement officer who died in the line of duty. Hutchinson graduated from both Florida State College and the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
He married Patty Sheldon Cone from Kempsville, Virginia on October 19, 1900. They were the parents of Hutchinson Ingham Cone, Jr., later a Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Army.
Cone's diary is in the archives of the Library of Congress. The diary was kept by Cone while serving on the cruiser Baltimore between April and August 1898 in the Philippines theater of the Spanish-American War. Entries contain descriptions of the Battle of Cavite and the Battle of Manila Bay, poetry commemorating the battles, newspaper clippings, and newsletters from Baltimore. It also includes a blueprint map of the Battle of Manila Bay.
He is buried with his wife in Arlington National Cemetery.
