biography
| name: |
Schufeldt, Robert Wilson
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pronunciation:
[shoofelt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–95)
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born in Red Hook, New York, USA. He was a Union naval commander in the Civil War and chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting (1875–8). He negotiated and signed a treaty with Korea (1882), the ‘Hermit Kingdom's’ first treaty with any Western nation. |
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