Hilary A. Herbert and Robert Lees Phythian

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert (left) and Commodore Robert Lees Phythian, then superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from the 1890s.

Hilary A. Herbert, Alabama congressman and Secretary of the Navy, with Robert Phythian
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
Hilary A. Herbert, Alabama congressman and Secretary of the Navy, with Robert Phythian