militia created by Governor Tilley three years earlier. While Minett was acting as governor, the territory was visited by German Samoa Governor Wilhelm Heinrich Solf, perhaps the first such visit from a governor's eastern counterpart. In this meeting, the two governors discussed maintaining friendly relations, but also restricting travel between the two territories. Some natives had been ignoring the partition and going on extended "visiting parties" between the zones. Both governors agreed to attempt to curb this practice. Minett's time as governor was also marked by the improving of roads in the territory and by hunger problems. Retirement After retirement, Minett remained at Norfolk Naval Yard on the court-martial board of inquiry. By 1908, he was president of that board. In 1880, an islet was named in his honor: Minett Islet. Minett was serving at Sitka Sound aboard when the islet was named. References 1857 births 1952 deaths American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Governors of American Samoa Military personnel from Louisville, Kentucky Politicians from Louisville, Kentucky United States Navy officers