A Dictionary of the Egyptian Language 1883 Hardcover
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Edward Yorke McCauley was an American naval officer and Egyptologist.
Background
Edward Yorke McCauley was a nephew of Charles Stewart McCauley. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent his boyhood in Tripoli, where his father, Daniel Smith McCauley, a former naval lieutenant, was United States consul. His mother, Sarah (Yorke) McCauley, died in 1830. By 1840, Edward could speak five languages and had navigated his father's yacht from Tripoli to Malta.
Career
Appointed a midshipman in 1841, McCauley cruised in the Mediterranean in the Fairfield till 1845, when he was ordered to the new naval school at Annapolis. During the Mexican War he served on the coast of Africa, and then returned to Annapolis till sent to the Mediterranean in the Constitution in 1849. From 1852 to 1855 he served on the Powhatan in the Orient, and he was with M. C. Perry on his second visit to Japan, when the treaty was signed. In 1858, as a lieutenant on the Niagara, he assisted in laying the Atlantic cable. Ill health, however, and perhaps his marriage caused him to resign and enter business in St. Paul, Minn. With the outbreak of the Civil War he volunteered (May 1861), and subsequently spent nearly two years on the west coast of Florida, between Tampa and Appalachicola, where, in spite of an attack of yellow fever, his zeal was said by the squadron commander to have made his ship, the ferry boat Fort Henry, "the terror of the coast for fifty miles. " His chief exploit was a launch expedition (armed only with howitzers and rifles) to capture vessels at Bayport, where he attacked enemy rifle pits and a small battery with considerable damage to the enemy and the burning of one vessel.
He was commissioned lieutenant commander July 16, 1862. In 1863, he was sent to the Bahamas in the Tioga in a vain search for the Florida. During the last year of the war he commanded the Benton on the Mississippi, and operated between Grand Gulf and Natchez to prevent illegal movement of cotton and the escape of Confederate leaders to Texas. After the Civil War McCauley served as fleet captain in the North Atlantic Squadron, at the Portsmouth and Boston navy yards, as head of the department of French at the Naval Academy, as commander of the Lackawanna in the Pacific, and finally as superintendent of the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. Having been promoted commander (1866), captain (1872), and commodore (1881), he was made a rear admiral in March 1885 and retired in 1887. He died at his summer home, "The Mist, " on Canonicut Island, Narragansett Bay, after a painful illness, bravely borne.
Achievements
Elected to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, in 1881, he presented, that year, as his first contribution to its Proceedings, "A Manual for the Use of Students in Egyptology". Some two years later he published a dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The environment of his early life had given McCauley a keen interest in the languages and thought of the peoples of the Levant, and in his later days he made an especial study of Egypt, where his father had served as consul in the forties.
Connections
On January 28, 1858, McCauley to Josephine McIlvaine Berkeley of Virginia.