Rank and organization: Fireman First Class, U.S. Navy. Please and date: Aboard U.S.S. Iowa 25 January 1905. Entered service at: New York. Born 3 January 1880, Trieste, Austria – G.O. No.:182, 20 March 1905. Citation: Serving on board the U.S.S. Iowa for extraordinary heroism at the time of the blowing out of the manhole plate of boiler D on board vessel that 25 January 1905.