Brimfield Find: Naval Officer? ID Help - San Fran

he just doesn't seem to have enough medals or decorations to be a navy commander.

 

Hm. Spanish first names starting with A that might fit - Abelardo is about the only one, really. I do think it's Sr. F. (something) (something) where both somethings are Spanish names. It's quite common for Spanish men to use the second name as the common one.

 

komokwa, that's why I'm wondering some kind of official but using naval regalia.

 

Not sure of rank, but we are now pretty sure due to the medals. He's Chilean.

According to a gentleman over on the other board.

"Seems he is Chilean. Medals: first is Chile Star for the Lima Campaign, 1881; second is the Chile Star for the Campaign to Bolivia and Peru 1879-80 (War of the Pacific)."

 

How's your Spanish? You might have a look through here: http://www.armada.cl/armada/site/edic/base/port/tradicion_historia.html

And email them perhaps.

 

Scantic he may still be a civilian. Those are only campaign medals not neccessarily service.

 

http://www.laguerradelpacifico.cl/Heroes y Biografias/Chile/Julio Argomedo.htm Kinda looks like this fellow

 

Maybe he is here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commanders-in-chief_of_the_Chilean_Navy

 

http://www.laguerradelpacifico.cl/Heroes y Biografias/Chile/Chile.htm


Not sure if he looks like any of these fellows

 

Sorta resembles this fellow http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Williams_Rebolledo

 

That's what I thought as well, but I notice the one in your photo has fairly curly hair.

 

Now THERE'S a Army/Navy game.

 

well, there's a San Fran in Chile ...

 

and a photographer named Morse on Market Street?

 

I didn't think of that. But I don't think it is.

https://books.google.com/books?id=N...e&q=morse market street san francisco&f=false

There is a mention of Morse on Market Street in San Francisco, Western Photographer

 

Looks like the photo may have been one of the last taken by Morse in San Francisco. That excerpt says that he left S.F. between 1889 and 1891, "surfacing in Chicago..." later.