Background
Roger Welles, the son of Roger and Mercy Delano (Aiken) Welles, was born in Newington, Connecticut. He was a direct descendant of Thomas Welles, one of the early governors of Connecticut.
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Roger Welles, the son of Roger and Mercy Delano (Aiken) Welles, was born in Newington, Connecticut. He was a direct descendant of Thomas Welles, one of the early governors of Connecticut.
In 1880 he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1884.
Three years later he was sent to the North Pacific on the U. S. S. Thetis, under Lieut. William H. Emory, for a cruise in the Arctic and the Bering Sea. On this ship he made three successive voyages into the Polar regions, cruising as far west as Herald Island and Wrangell Land, and as far east as Mackenzie Bay. The last voyage was made under Lieut. Charles H. Stockton. During these voyges he acquired considerable knowledge of the Eskimo dialects, and on his return, in collaboration with an interpreter, John W. Kelly, he prepared a pamphlet entitled English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies (1890), published by the United States Bureau of Education. In 1891 he was sent as a special representative of the United States for the World's Columbian Exposition to Venezuela and the Guianas, with instructions to explore the Orinoco River. He ascended the river farther than any white man had been before, and brought back an ethnological collection which, with his diary of the journey, is now in the Field Museum, Chicago. For this service he received a certificate and a bronze medal. During the Spanish-American War Welles acted as executive officer on the converted yacht Wasp off the Cuban coast, participating in the battle of Nipe Bay, where the Spanish cruiser Don Jorge Juan was sunk. For this service he was given the Atlantic Battle Medal (Nipe Bay). After the war he served on the president's yacht Mayflower, attended the Naval War College in 1903-04, and subsequently served three years with the Asiatic Fleet. When the World War broke out, Welles, then a captain, was made director of naval intelligence, a post which he held throughout the war, building up a far-flung censorship personnel. On July 1, 1918, he was given the temporary rank of rear admiral, a promotion made permanent a year later. After the war he commanded successively the first division of the Atlantic Fleet, and the eleventh and fifth naval districts. In September 1925 he was sent abroad as commander of the United States forces in Europe with the Pittsburgh as his flagship. He was retired for age on December 7, 1926.
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On October 17, 1908, he married Harriet Ogden Deen of Staten Island.