US Navy Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the United States Navy as a Ship's Cook. His citation reads "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Ship's Cook Adam Weissel, United States Navy, for gallant and heroic conduct in jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship Minnesota, at Newport, Rhode Island, 26 August 1881, and sustaining until picked up by a boat from the ship, C. Lorenze, Captain of the forecastle, who had fallen overboard ." By 1900, he was Solano, California. He married Emma Schmidt on October 7, 1901 and had two sons and two daughters. He named one of his sons Lorenze. He worked as a janitor and became a naturalized American citizen.
US Navy Peacetime Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the United States Navy as a Ship's Cook. His citation reads "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Ship's Cook Adam Weissel, United States Navy, for gallant and heroic conduct in jumping overboard from the U.S. Training Ship Minnesota, at Newport, Rhode Island, 26 August 1881, and sustaining until picked up by a boat from the ship, C. Lorenze, Captain of the forecastle, who had fallen overboard ." By 1900, he was Solano, California. He married Emma Schmidt on October 7, 1901 and had two sons and two daughters. He named one of his sons Lorenze. He worked as a janitor and became a naturalized American citizen.
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