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Admiral Bleecker John Van Beuthuysen Bleecker
(1847-1922, Admiral, US Navy)

This 1907 photo includes Admiral Bleecker fifth from the left in the middle row.   He is looking at his daughter, Elsie Lynch Waymouth and her youngest daughter on her knee.
Admiral Bleecker and Ernest G Waymouth met when they were involved with the international force sent to relieve Peking during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.  The Admiral's daughter, Elsie, met Ernest in Hong Kong.   In his memoirs, Silas Waymouth says that Admiral Bleecker was a good ventriloquist and actor.