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George Walter Rice was born June 29, 1855 in Baddeck, Cape Breton. He attended primary and secondary school in North Sydney and then attended Columbia University earning a law degree. He spent some time as a correspondent to the New York Herald. He took up the family trade and became a photographer in Washington, DC with his uncles, Moses and Amos. He became an arctic photographer after an expedition to Greenland in 1880. He was also selected to go on an expedition to the Arctic ocean in 1881 and became the first person to photograph the arctic region. The Lady Franklin Bay expedition left Newfoundland In 1881 and was sponsored by the United States Signal Corp, so George was given the title of sergeant. The expedition became stranded as relief boats failed to make the journey. Two of his brothers, Robert and Roswell, went to look for him in 1884. George died on April 9, 1884 while hunting seal and polar bear for the crew. He named Moses as the Executor of his estate.