John Minor Maury
US Navy officer (1795–1823)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Minor Maury (1795 – June 23, 1823) was an officer of the United States Navy whose life and career was ended by yellow fever. In 1888, fictionalized versions of his life story were published by his son, Dabney H. Maury, and his niece, Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin, and the sensational stories became Maury's de facto biography for more than 130 years.