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Jordi Farragut Mesquida was born to Antoni Farragut and Joana Mesquida in Ciutadella on the island of Menorca (an overseas territory of the Kingdom of Great Britain between 1708 and 1782, now part of Spain). He first went to sea at the age of 10, and left Menorca as a young man to join the Spanish merchant marine after studies in the Barcelona ...
Born on July 5, 1801, at Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tennessee, David Glasgow Farragut (born James Farragut) was the second son of Elizabeth Farragut and her husband Jorge Farragut Mesquida, a Spanish– by descent and a Minorquin by birth, who had emigrated to America in 1776. Jorge Farragut Mesquida served during the American Revolution.
During the American Civil War, the government of the United States recognized that the rapidly expanding Union Navy was in need of admirals. Therefore, on July 16, 1862 Congress proceeded to authorize the appointment of nine officers to the rank of rear admiral, [15] [16] making Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut the first Hispanic-American to be appointed said grade.
Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]
Porter's father, David Porter Sr., met and befriended another naval veteran of the American Revolutionary War, George Farragut, from the Balearic island of Minorca. [4] In late spring 1808, David Sr. suffered sunstroke , and Farragut took him into his home, where his wife Elizabeth cared for him.
The private event space at 35 North located at the corner of Kingston Pike and Campbell Station Road in Farragut on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. How 35 North is planning for the future
Mesquida is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Joan Mesquida (1962–2020), Spanish politician; Joan Mesquida Mayans (born 1968), Spanish politician;
More than a month after a 16-year-old Farragut girl was hit by a pickup truck while she waited for the school bus, the Knox County District Attorney’s Office has not decided whether the driver ...