Rear Admiral George B. Balch, USN,
Superintentent of the U.S. Naval Academy
Page 1 of a 22 June 1880 letter to Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson, requesting that Assistant Professor William W. Fay be appointed Professor of English Studies, History and Law, and that former Acting Assistant Surgeon Thomas D. Walton be appointed as the Naval Academy's dentist.
Dental Corps Collection, received from Captain H.D. Tow, USN (Dental Corps), 1976.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.