Gardiner, Hampden Sidney, 1859-1884

Hampden Sidney Gardiner
BIRTH
18 Jan 1859
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH
12 Jun 1884 (aged 25)
Canada
BURIAL
Burial Details Unknown; includes a scanned obituary about members of the Greely expedition; Sergeant Hampden Sidney Gardiner; Gardiners remains were not recovered. He died on June 12 last and was buried at Ice Fort. This place was afterwards carried out to sea.

Sergeant Hampden S. Gardiner; Died: June 12, 1884 of starvation at Camp Clay; Hampden Gardiner recorded weather and tidal data and [was] specialized in making instruments. He rebuilt a chronograph -- an instrument for observing the stars in connection with Earth's rotation. Although he broke his leg in November, 1881 and was immobile for nearly three months, Greely said Gardiner's "spirits never failed him."