Boyd, George W.
George W. Boyd, Adolf Dressler, Carl Gortz and Nelse Iverson were members of the 1879-1881 Jeannette Arctic expedition. In September 1881, after their ship's loss and her crew's subsequent journey across pack ice and Arctic seas, they were among the fourteen men who landed on the northern end of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All but two of this party, weakened by exposure and lack of food, died during the following weeks. Iverson succumbed on 28 October 1881, followed by Dressler on the 29th. Gortz and Boyd passed away during the night of 29-30 October. Their bodies were later found and, in early 1884, were brought back to the United States for burial.
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