biography
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Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1933)
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| biography:
| Arctic explorer, born in Springfield, Missouri, USA. He was the superintendent of city schools in Kansas (1887–91) and an observer for the US Weather Bureau (1892–1900). He made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole (1901–2). He served in minor government posts (1918–33), but was almost destitute at the time of his death in a car accident in Washington, DC. |
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