hughrodman

Admiral Hugo Osterhaus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Osterhaus

A warship afficionado -- see www.navsource.org/archives/01/18c.htm -- believes this is on the USS Connecticut (BB-18)

Admiral Hugh Rodman KCB (6 January 1859 – 7 June 1940) was an officer in the United States Navy who served during the Spanish–American War and World War I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Rodman

amaizing

www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hugh-rodman.htm

a clue as to why he was in the news in 1914 comes from www.czbrats.com/Builders/Rodman.htm "Returning to the United States, he was ordered to the Canal Zone, remained in that area from January, 1914 to October, 1915, first in an advisory capacity to General Goethals, the Army engineer-builder. As Superintendent of Transportation, Panama Canal, later redesignated Marine Superintendent, he wrote the rules and regulations applicable to vessels which use the Canal, and organized and operated it when the canal was first opened under General Goethal's authority." 1915 World almanac and book of facts books.google.com/books?id=-GQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133&l...; indicates that he was still Captain at the time. 1916 World almanac and book of facts books.google.com/books?id=MWY3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135&l... has him as Marine Superintendent (still Captain).

He was a captain when this photo was made. (The wiki article says he was promoted to RADM in 1917.)