Clark H. Woodward - Peacetime Service

Peacetime Service

Between the two World Wars, with a second star on each shoulder, Rear Admiral Woodward served as Commandant of the Panama Canal District, and later as Commandant of the U.S. Third Naval District, which covered Connecticut, New Jersey, and southern New York, and had its headquarters in lower Manhattan. He was also given simultaneous command of the U.S. Navy Yard, New York, popularly referred to as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. (Its official name at that time was U.S. Navy Yard, New York, and was referred to in correspondence as the New York Navy Yard. The yard's unofficial "Brooklyn" nickname was never used by the Navy Department.)

Clark Howell Woodward married Charlotte Margaret Linné; she was a widow of Captain Edward Graham Parker, and the daughter of Catherine Fitzpatrick (O'Reilly) and Captain John Conrad Linne (keeper of the lighthouse at Goat Island in San Francisco Bay). They lived in Washington, D.C. until Woodward's assignment to his New York City posting. There, they officially resided at the Commandant’s House in the Navy Yard, but stayed more often in their Upper West Side apartment on Riverside Drive.