Captain John Codman, 1814-1900

No. 8867  Captain John Codman

Captain John Codman’s books include:

Sailors’ Lives and Sailors’ Yarn.  (1847)

Ten Months in Brazil. (1867)

Mormon Country: A Summer with the “Latter Day Saints.” (1874)

The Round Trip by Way of Panama Through California. (1879)

Winter Sketches from the Saddle. (1888)

An American Transport in the Crimean War. (1896)

Are the Interests of a Few Ship-builders More to be Considered Than the Interests of Commerce? An Address delivered before the Special Committee of the House of Representatives of Navigation Interests, March 19, 1870.

Captain John Codman (1814-1900) was the oldest son of Rev. John Codman and became a ship captain and author. John Codman, who was a sea captain and author, was born in Dorchester, the son of John and Mary (Wheelwright) Codman.  His father, son of a prosperous merchant of the same name, was pastor of the Second Parish in Dorchester from 1808 till his death in 1847 and a sturdy upholder of the old orthodoxy against Unitarians and other schismatics.

On many of his voyages he was accompanied by his wife, Anna G. Day of New York, whom he had married Nov. 3, 1847.  Throughout his active life he was an enthusiastic horseman, sometimes traveling from Boston to New York on horseback.  At one time he owned a ranch in Idaho

Captain John Codman published widely in Harper’s, Century, The North American Review and the Galazy Magazines.

21523 Captain John Codman’s book The Mormon Country.

21524 Captain John Codman’s book The Round Trip

21525 Captain John Codman’s book Winter Sketches from the Saddle

He wrote vigorous English, his books being Sailor’s Life and Sailors’ Yarns (1847), “by Captain Ringbolt;” Ten Months in in Brazil (1867); The Mormon Country (1874); Free Ships (1878); The Round Trip (1879), describing a tour of the western states; Winter Sketches from the Saddle (1888), and An American Transport in the Crimean War (1896).  He was also the author of numerous pamphlets in favor of free ships and shipbuilders’ materials and against subsidies for the merchant marine.  He died at his daughter’s home in Boston after a short illness.

 

Sources: 

William Dana Orcutt. Good Old Dorchester. (1893)

Other Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston. (Boston: State Street Trust Company, 1919)

 

Boston Transcript, April 7, 1900.

W.L. Montague, ed. Biographical Record of Alumni of Amherst College, 1821-71. (1883).

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