Stephen Decatur
(1779-1820)

Died aged c. 41

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Stephen Decatur. Famed U.S. Navy officer. Born 1779 in Maryland, he grew up in a house on this site. Celebrated for his role in the Tripolitan War, 1804; capture of H.M.S. Macedonian, 1812; and the subduing of the Barbary powers, 1815. Killed in a duel in 1820. Buried, St. Peter's Church.

600 block of S Front St., Philadelphia, PA, United States where they grew up