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 . master Sept. 37, 1873, and lieutenant Aug. 3, first service in naval work was on the Ports-mouth, engaged in a sui-veying expedition in theNorth Pacific in 1873-74; he too
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 . master Sept. 37, 1873, and lieutenant Aug. 3, first service in naval work was on the Ports-mouth, engaged in a sui-veying expedition in theNorth Pacific in 1873-74; he took part in suppress-ing an insurrection in the Hawaiian islands in 1873;served on board the U. S. man-of-war Vandalia dur-ing the time it was placed at the dispcsal of for his cruise in the Mediterranean, visitingItaly, Egypt, and the Holy 1878 he was one of the naval forcesent by the United States to join theill-fated arctic steamer was at the time in Havre,France; was taken on board, madethe voyage to San Francisco, andthence through Behring strait intothe Arctic ocean. Danenhower wassecond in command, but by reasonof intense suffering from ophthal-mia, was compelled to remain in adark room. After the sinking ofthe Jeannette he commanded oneof the three boats that set out forland over the icy waste. When theboats became separated in the mem •orable gale that struck them whil
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