Editing David Farragut (section)

==Personal life==
After appointment and an initial cruise as acting lieutenant commanding {{USS|Ferret|1822|6}}, Farragut married Susan Caroline Marchant on September 2, 1824.<ref>Schneller, Robert J., ''Farragut: America's First Admiral'' p. 19</ref> After years of ill health, Susan Farragut died on December 27, 1840. Farragut was noted for his kindly treatment of his wife during her illness.<ref name=Hearn>{{cite book|last=Hearn|first=Chester G.|title=Admiral David Glasgow Farragut: The Civil War Years|year=1998|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, MD|isbn=1-55750-384-2|pages=xxi+385}}</ref>

After the death of his first wife, Farragut married Virginia Dorcas Loyall, on December 26, 1843, with whom he had one surviving son, named Loyall Farragut, born October 12, 1844. Loyall Farragut graduated from [[West Point]] in 1868, and served as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[U.S. Army]] before resigning in 1872. He spent most of the remainder of his career as an executive with the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. He was a hereditary member of the Military Society of the War of 1812 and a companion of the [[Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States]]. Loyall died on October 1, 1916, as noted on one side of the family monument that he and his mother erected to the memory of his father in Woodlawn Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/2266*.html|title=Loyall Farragut • Cullum's Register • 2266|website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}</ref>

Farragut had a brother named William A. C. Farragut. William was also in the Navy but had a far less distinguished career. He was warranted as a midshipman on January 16, 1809 &ndash; a year before David would begin his career &ndash; and was promoted to lieutenant on December 9, 1814. He remained at that rank until he was transferred to the Reserve List on December 15, 1855. He died on December 20, 1859.

Farragut was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] and a [[Scottish Rite]] freemason.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://pub.acgl.eu/index.php/freemasonry/information | title = Famous men members of Masonic Lodges | website = American Canadian Grand Lodge ACGL | language = en | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181117142833/https://pub.acgl.eu/index.php/freemasonry/information | archive-date = November 17, 2018 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.bavarialodge.org/freemasonry | title = Famous members of Masonic Lodges | language = en | website = Bavaria Lodge No. 935 A.F. & A. M. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181013211059/https://www.bavarialodge.org/freemasonry | archive-date = October 13, 2018 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author = Henry C. Clausen | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WoTOAAAAMAAJ&q=David+Farragut%2Bfreemason | title = Masons who Helped Shape Our Nation | language = en | publisher = Supreme Council, 330, A.A. Scottish Rite of Freemasonry | location = Southern Jurisdiction, U.S. | year = 1976 | oclc = 2392477 | page = 30 |isbn = 9781127512546| quotation = ... Admiral David Farragut, for example, was one of the great Freemasons who won recognition from all sides for his bravery. | archive-url = https://archive.today/20181117185906/https://www.google.com/search?q=David+Farragut%2Bfreemasonry&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjolbPtjdzeAhUH4YUKHdMkCiIQ_AUIFCgB&biw=1366&bih=639 | archive-date = November 17, 2018 | url-status = live |author-link = Henry C. Clausen}}</ref>