Arctic explorer, United States Navy lieutenant. He was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, moving up to officer while in Europe, where he was assigned and returned the U.S.S. Jeannette for its Arctic expedition in 1879. After the ship was crushed by ice Danenhower and the crew were forced to walk across the ice to open water in order to seek rescue. Returning to the United States in 1882, he began lecturing and writing. In 1884 he was assigned to train cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy on the U.S.S. Constellation which he ran aground in April of 1877. He took his own life after ongoing depression following the grounding of the U.S.S. Constellation.
He was the husband of Helen Laflin Sloan Danenhower
Cause of death: suicide
Inscription: "And thou, heroic sailor-soul, art passing on thine happier voyage now toward no earthly pole"
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The Oswego Palladium, 22 Apr 1887
DANENHOWER--At Annapolis, Md., Apr 20th, 1887, John W. Danenhower, Lieutenant United States Navy. Funeral services will be held at Christ Church, Oswego, Sunday April 24 at 3:30 o'clock p.m. Interment at Riverside and private.
Arctic explorer, United States Navy lieutenant. He was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, moving up to officer while in Europe, where he was assigned and returned the U.S.S. Jeannette for its Arctic expedition in 1879. After the ship was crushed by ice Danenhower and the crew were forced to walk across the ice to open water in order to seek rescue. Returning to the United States in 1882, he began lecturing and writing. In 1884 he was assigned to train cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy on the U.S.S. Constellation which he ran aground in April of 1877. He took his own life after ongoing depression following the grounding of the U.S.S. Constellation.
He was the husband of Helen Laflin Sloan Danenhower
Cause of death: suicide
Inscription: "And thou, heroic sailor-soul, art passing on thine happier voyage now toward no earthly pole"
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The Oswego Palladium, 22 Apr 1887
DANENHOWER--At Annapolis, Md., Apr 20th, 1887, John W. Danenhower, Lieutenant United States Navy. Funeral services will be held at Christ Church, Oswego, Sunday April 24 at 3:30 o'clock p.m. Interment at Riverside and private.
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