WYMAN, Thomas White, naval officer, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 24 March, 1793; died in Florence, Italy, 24 February, 1854. He entered the navy as a midshipman, 17 December, 1810, was commissioned lieutenant, 27 April, 1816, was promoted to commander, 9 February, 1837, commanded the receiving-ship at Boston in 1837, and the sloop "John Adams" on the East India station, 1838-'40. He was promoted to captain, 2 March, 1842, commanded the flagship "Columbus," 1845-'8, on the Pacific station during the Mexican war, in which he participated in most of the operations on the Pacific coast of California and Mexico. He was commandant of Portsmouth navy-yard in 1849-'51, and was appointed to the "Vermont" to cruise in the East Indies, but he went abroad on a leave of absence, and died there.--His son, Robert Harris, naval officer, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 12 July, 1822 ; died in Washington, D. C., 2 December, 1882, entered the navy its a midshipman, 11 March, 1837, attended the naval school at Philadelphia in 1842-'3, and became a passed midshipman, 29 June, 1843. He was acting master in the frigate "Brandywine" in 1843-'6, and during the Mexican war served in the Gulf squadron, with which he participated in the siege and capture of Vera Cruz, and the expedition, s that captured Tuspan and Tampico, with many prizes, in 1847. He served at the naval observatory at Washington in 1848-'50, was promoted to lieutenant, 16 July, 1850, and was again attached to the observatory in 1853-'4. When the civil way began he commanded the steamer "Yankee" from July till October, 1861, the steamer "Pawnee" in the South Atlantic squadron at the capture of Port Royal in 1861, and then the Potomac flotilla, by which he kept the river open and silenced the Confederate batteries on the banks. He was promoted to commander, 16 July, 1862, had the steamer "Wachusett" on the Potomac in 1862-'3, and the" Santiago de Cuba "on the blockade in 1863-'4. He was commissioned captain, 25 July, 1866, and in October, 1869, appointed chief hydrographer of the navy at Washington, where he remained eight years and acquired an enviable reputation for the excellence of his hydrographic work. He was promoted to commodore, 19 July, 1872, and to rear-admiral, 26 April, 1878, was commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic fleet in 1879-'82, and in May, 1882, appointed a member of the light-house board, of which he became chairman, 5 June, 1882. He was stricken with apoplexy at his desk in the treasury department, and died the same night.