De Long', George

WASHINGTON, lieutenant-commander of the U. S. Navy, born in New York, Aug. 22, 1844. Не graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1865, and served in the Juniata on her trip to Green land in search of the Polar is. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, subsequently purchased a ve el for a polar expedition which, by special act of Congre , was ramed the Jeannette, and was allowed to sail under American colors with all the rights of a government ve el. On July 8, 1879, the Jeannette sailed from San Francisco and made her way through Bering Strait to the seas north of Siberia. On June 13, 1881, she was crushed by the ice and sank, and De Long, with a number of the party, perished on the banks of the delta of the Lena in Siberia, in October, 1881.