Frederick, Julius R., 1852-1904

The collection contains documentation and artifacts relating to Julius R. Frederick’s participation in the Greely
expedition of 1881–84, including diary entries written by Frederick, a Winchester repeating rifle he used during the
expedition, and a razor and a knife and fork. The materials also document his life in Indiana, attempts to get Congress
to pay the Lady Franklin Bay survivors pensions, Frederick's illness and death in 1903 and 1904, and the sale and
transfer of the collection to Peter Krieg in 1978 ...

Members of the Greely Expedition; Private Julius Frederick;
Born: 1852; Survived the expedition; At 5'2" tall, Julius "shorty" Frederick served as the regular cook at Fort Conger. In April 1884, Frederick, while on a mission to find food, goes 12 miles out of his way to bury George Rice who had succumbed to hypothermia. After surviving, Frederick worked as an assistant observer for the U.S. Weather Bureau. He named his two daughters Thetis and Sabine after the cape where his party was stranded and the ship that had rescued him. He died on January 6, 1904 of stomach cancer.

Sgt Julius R Frederick
BIRTH
12 Jul 1852
Germany
DEATH
6 Jan 1904 (aged 51)
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA

A Hoosier Shackleton: Julius Frederick and the Greely Expedition, by Justin Clark; According to the Indianapolis News, Frederick was born in Dayton, Ohio on July 21, 1852. He spent most of his early years in St. Mary’s, Ohio before his mother died when he was thirteen. Without much keeping him in Ohio, Frederick moved to Chicago, taking odd jobs as a messenger boy and railroad worker before he enlisted in the US army in 1876. For many years, Frederick was a soldier in military campaigns against Native Americans, fighting the Sioux and Nez Pierce. Specifically, he fought in the battle of Muddy Creek against the Sioux on May 7, 1877 ...