Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-10-31
DR.. OCTAVE PAVY.
SOME FACTS REGARDING HIS
PATRIOTIC LIFE.
The Value of His Services to the
Country and the World.
Unanswerable Testimony Adduced tt
Both.

The Value OF Ills oefVlceS " LILO
Country and the World.
Unanswerable Testimony Adduced to
Both.
Memory Require Congress.
ionnI Action and Re-
cognitIon.
As "a matter of simple justice to the
memory of a distinguished scientist. a
brave and patriotic man, who sacrificed
his life to science and his country, we
desire to lay before our readers and the
country, sketch of the life of DIR.
Octave Pavy, and irrefutable testimony
as to the value of his services.
DR. Octave Pavy was born in New
Orleans, La, June %, 1914. He was
a graduate in science and art from the
University of Paris, France. A full
course of medicine was pursued in
Paris also. A season of each year was
devoted to travels on the continent, in
Great Britain, New Zealand, Iceland
and Australia; and frequent journeys
were made to Africa. In a few years
all the countries of Europe had been
visited, and much experience had been
obtained Oh the high seas.
DR.. Pavy had seen the art of Europe;
its masterpieces and its masters became
familiar to HIM. Reared amidst them,
educated to understand their great inn
portance, until later in life he was con-
sidered connoisseur on questions OF
artistic merit, IN appreciation of which
gift he was made honorary member of
several art societies.
Within few months of his gradua-
ton in medicine a French Arctic ex-
petition was proposed by the govern
ment, to which the renowned scientist
and Arctic explorer, Gustave Lambert,
was assigned command and Octave
Pavy was appointed associate in COM
mand.
There was strong interest taken in
the movement by the Emperor Napo-
leon, of which his private donation ol
0,000 francs to the expedition was
proof. The project, however, was
nipped in the bud by the disasters o
1870 and 1871 in France.
Both the explorer and his enthusias
l tic associate entered the Franco-Prus.
! sian war. France mourns the explorer
, , as her fallen son; Lambert having los
y his life upon the battlefield.
e Tine distinguished services rendered
Il by Capt. Pavy were much remarked
j, upon and published at the time, il
+ Paris and London. DR.. Pavy lef
France to make farewell visit to hi
parents in America before going on
5 in the French Arctic expedition, an
3. while there the Franco Prussian wa
i broke out. He retraced his steps a
once, mot to unfurl the French flag owe
the icy regions of the Arctic, but
le carry it before the enemy in victory G
1t defeat upon the battlefield.
o DR.. Pavy organized tree corps, (
'v which he took command, and Lieu
" Beauregard (nephew of the note
Id confederate generaD was assigne
st command as his associate. All expens
vt " of the zouave costume, ETC., were borl
by these two brave enthusiasts. II
ne London Graphic in commenting
x length SAID in closing: "This little i
IS dependent army was successful al
er useful, brave and daring. Capt. Octa
so Pavy came over from America for
praise worthy purpose of renderil
w what assistance might lie in his pow
'a' to the people from whom lie is descen
ed, and among whom he was rear
and educated"
ns At the close of the war Octave Pa
'r' returned to the United States to laun
an individual enterprise, which, by
press, was called "The Pavy Expet
ton to the North Pole" The point
=. departure was to be San Francisco, "a
LII the route the Behring Strait a
Wrangel-Land route.
ie' After months OF the most distingui
'sl' ed conrtesies, received at the hands
et; the New York Geographical Socie
nu the Academies of Science of N
pre- Orleans, St. Louis and other cit
:' ;th Octave Pavy arrived in San Francis
,in ada Here his project was on the eve OF c.
seu summation, June 1872, when the 81
elo den death of financial associate eau
"a disaster and melancholy defeat,
u.s. DR.. Pavy had invested his fortune, 8
,os' with the abandoned project all '
/
n ne lover of Arctic history and resear
a.s t'a. this failure was looked upon as caus
i uoi only q postponement Of Arctic ent
har @ prise.
nea During four years of lite passed
ing 1na;tad for tho opnortmne momen
:. 10 make a third attempt.
w wv His marriage occurred in 1878.
X la l.. al f,pn no
Its with him in his losses, sacrifices,
nav usS his unbounded desire to fulfill his
20! billions in life. She accordingly (
ling ,ort,'ra fo. tba P,Ior ,o,r;nps wbar
Il "a q opportunity should present itself.
- In 1879 Octave Pavy graduated
o' medicine in the Missouri Medical
lege of st. Louis, in order that
might fully understand the Eng
professional phraseology, having
con yiously studied both the collegiate
tho medical branches in the French
tory guage.
.;vnr In 1880 DR.. Pavy sailed with
tho Howgate expedition on the "Gulna
4 to from Washington,D. G. ,as surgeon
facts naturalist of the party DR.. and
,reat Pavy parled-as time has proved
,,v;th ever, when the "Gulnare" sailed u,
2l. 1880.
II Of During the year, July 80 to
with w III 81, DR.. Payy explored the coas
reot mn Greenland for 800 miles, going a.
,nar ,0ac' north as Upernavik. Valuable in
,p;ts hit, was attained into the sciences of
!. has has region. The geological and min
,,a%o the vegetable and animal kingt
na5o were made a study. Specimens O
IT, species of animal life came mt
- on possession as taxidermist, and
~ @ prepared for the Smithsonian
tute. The flora and fauna of the C
f., try was exhaustively studied and
. Vii lected. Nothing escaped his atten
..,;f Most valuable were the services re
The ed the coming expedition, which pl
uort. to be the Greely party, by pure
.ron, made by DR.. Pavy The food col
, viii viii ed of 1900 pounds of dried fish, a
nart barrels of walrus meat, not spc
!, pd and agreeable to eat, but indispensat
pemSa keeping scurvy in abeyance.
H r. to dog food and various such thin
m.do procured.
r pur- DR.. Pavy expected to be contl
,lenty with, as surgeon, and purchased
depth anti-scorbutic food with the HI
MINER zeal and faithfulness of consciel
physician. Many sledge journe
lpport land and ice had been made duril
ii fall year. The Eskimo tongue had
10 not acquired, and agility in driving q