Emma Wotton De Long (1851-1940) was an author and wife of Lt. Commander George W. De Long, leader of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition. After her husband's death, she wrote The Voyage of the Jeanette (1883) and commissioned sculptor Leonard Craske to design a monument for the grave of her late husband.
William Bradford (1823–1892) was a marine artist in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He accompanied the Jeannette Arctic Expedition with De Long as an artist and was present at the ship's departure from San Francisco to the polar regions.