Ships
- USS Alden (DD-211) Captain, 21 May 1921 to 24 December 1921
Edmund Weyman Strother was born in Albany, Georgia, on October 29, 1884, and spent his working life in the United States Navy. On January 9, 1914, he married Marjorie Brown in Columbus, Georgia.
On January 2, 1918, in the last year of the First World War, he took command of the destroyer Monaghan and remained her captain into 1919. United States destroyers in that season were spread along the convoy routes of the eastern Atlantic, and his command carried through the end of the fighting and into the demobilization that followed.
On May 21, 1921, Lieutenant Commander Strother became captain of Alden (DD-211). She was a Clemson-class destroyer built by William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, laid down on October 24, 1918, launched on May 14, 1919, and commissioned on November 24, 1919. The ship carried the name of Rear Admiral James Alden, Jr., whose career had included coastal exploration, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Bureau of Navigation, and command of the European Station. The destroyer Strother commanded was a flush-deck ship of about 1,200 tons and 314 feet, armed with four 4-inch guns and twelve torpedo tubes, and designed for 35 knots.
After shakedown and repairs, Alden sailed on December 5, 1919, for European waters and went on to Constantinople and to Samsun, Turkey, while American ships watched the unsettled coasts left by the Ottoman collapse. Strother served as her captain from May 21, 1921, until December 24, 1921. She stayed in commission after his tour, later called at Yokohama, and was decommissioned on January 24, 1923, as the Navy laid up a large part of the wartime destroyer force.
His service also included the battleship Texas and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. For a time his home was Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Strother died in Georgia on June 1, 1965.