| Summary: | Portrait of New London whaling master identified as Sydney O. Buddington (Sidney O. Budington). He is seated and wearing what appears to be a uniform, with vest and bow tie. He has a mustache and possibly a goatee. Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Sidney O. Budington commanded the bark George Henry of New London in 1860. He was the nephew of James M. Buddington and cousin of James W. Buddington. He was master of the vessel Polaris for Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall's ill-fated last polar expedition George Henry was a bark built in Waldoboro, Maine, 1841, and lost in 1863 in Hudson Bay.
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