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Commodore Isaac Mayo (1794 – 18 May 1861) was a United States naval officer who served in the War of 1812, Second Seminole War, and Mexican War. Mayo is credited with influencing the location of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and is noted for his controversial resignation and Presidential dismissal from the service at the start of the Civil War. ==Life== Isaac Mayo was born in 1794 in Anne Arundel County Maryland.〔http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-14/news/bs-ar-isaac-mayo-20110514_1_commodore-isaac-mayo-congressional-medal-lee retrieved 5/19/2011〕 He was the nephew of United States Navy Admiral Joseph Mayo.〔Mullins, Caroline, History of Mayo Maryland, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1996 as summarized at http://www.selbyonthebay.org/history.html retrieved 5/19/2011〕 He married Sarah Battaile Fitzhugh Bland, daughter of Theodoric Bland, a federal judge and Chancellor of Maryland, and Sarah Glen in 1835. They had one daughter, Sarah 〔Warfield, Joshua D., The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Ann Arrundell County Historical Society, 2002, p.323〕 The Mayos resided in historic Gresham house at Mayo’s Neck plantation, parts of which had formerly been known as Cotter’s Desire, Love’s Neck, and Selby’s Marsh. The plantation had previously been owned by the pirate William Cotter and wife Jane Gassaway, who purchased it two years after the death of Jane’s father Colonel Nicholas Gassaway (Mysteriously, the Colonel's and his son's gravestones were both found there in different centuries, though both had lived and died at the Love's Neck residence while Gresham house was still owned and occupied by Greshams on rented land).〔〔〔Warfield, Joshua D., The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Ann Arrundell County Historical Society, 2002, p.171〕 Commodore Mayo also owned a farm in Elkridge〔Reed, George E. (editor), Pennsylvania archives, fourth series, William Stanley Ray, State Printer, Harrisburg, PA, 1902, Page 613-15〕 and Sarah inherited Blandair from her father in 1846. Commodore Mayo died of a gunshot wound at Gresham house on or before the morning of May 18, 1861,〔 the same day on which he was dismissed from the Navy by order of President Abraham Lincoln for his eloquent but aggressive letter of resignation.〔 He is buried beneath a tall stone spire in the Strawberry Hill Cemetery at the US Naval Academy.〔Duval, Ruby R., The Naval Academy Cemetery on Strawberry Hill, Proceedings Magazine, August 1945 found at http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1945-08/naval-academy-cemetery-strawberry-hill retrieved 24 May 2011〕 The 2500+ resident community of Mayo, Maryland, as well as Mayo Road (route 214), the Mayo Peninsula, and Mayo School all bear his name.〔〔http://www.mayo.md.us/ retrieved 22 May 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isaac Mayo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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