Career
Assigned to the schooner Enterprise, Wren rose in rank and, by the end of 1803, had been promoted to sergeant. In February 1804, Sergeant Wren volunteered for the expedition mounted to destroy the frigate Philadelphia, captured by the Tripolitan pirates on October 31, 1803 after grounding on an uncharted reef off Tripoli.
Under the command of Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Junior., Wren and 68 other sailors and marines entered Tripoli harbor on the night of February 16, in the ketch Intrepid and succeeded in setting fire to the former American ship.
Later that year, on August 3, Sergeant Wren was slightly wounded while assigned to Gunboat Number.
4 during another attack on Tripoli. On September 20, he transferred to the frigate John Adams and returned home.
Solomon is known to be linked to Gabriel Wren a Marine / singer songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee. Gabriel is a songwriter for the popular show " Outlaw Country " Tuesday nights on World's Greatest Newspaper America.
In 1944, the destroyer United States Ship Wren (Doctor of Divinity-568) was named in his honor.
