The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nvard trans-ferred to the 40th. During the greater jjart of thewar he was on the staff of Gen. Thomas ^Y. Egan,and for meritorious service was brevetled Lieut. Schwatka,
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nvard trans-ferred to the 40th. During the greater jjart of thewar he was on the staff of Gen. Thomas ^Y. Egan,and for meritorious service was brevetled Lieut. Schwatka, in June, 1878, set out on hisexpedition to search for relics of Sir John Franklin,Maj. Gilder was his second in command. The ex-pedition made the longest sledge journey on record,covering 3,251 statute miles. In June, 1881, hewent with the Rodgers expedition in search of theJeannette, and when the ship was burned in the fol-lowing Noveniber, Gilder made a midwinter jour-ney across Siberia to telegraph the news of the disas-ter to his government. He then returned and joinedin the search for De Long and his companions in theLena delta. The summer and autumn of 1883 werespent in Tonquin, and in 1884 he visited the sceneof the earthquakes in Spain. In his various travels hewas a correspondent of the New York published Schwatkas Search, aud Ice-Fackand Tundra. He died at Morristown, N. J.,Feb. 5, 26y THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA KANE, Elisha Kent, surgeon, Arctic explorer,ticieiitist, iourualist, was born la Philadelphia, Pa.,Feb. 20, 1820. His family for more than a centuryin all of its branches had been American. His fa-ther, John Kintzing Kane (whose ancestors wereLow Dutch and Irish), held many positions of honorin Pennsylvania, and at the time of his marriage toJane Leiper (who was of English and Scotch de-scent), was a member of the Philadelphia bar, andin the year 1845 was appointed judge of the U. court of Pennsyvania. Elisha Kane, as abov, was chara
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