Doctor Frederick A. COok, Discoverer of the North Pole

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Stock #:297169
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Postmark: 1909 Oct-7
Postmark City: New York
Postmark State: NY
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Evelyn A Chandler
4 Kronuch St.
Peabody
Additional Details:
Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn, NY was born at Calicoon Depot, NY June 10, 1865 and was educated in Calicoon and Brooklyn, NY, received his degree of MD from the University of New York in 1890, was married June 10th 1902 to Mary F. Hunt - Surgeon of the Peary Expedition 1891-2 and of Belgium Antarctic Expedition in a897-9 - started on his present expedition from Sydney C B. in the fall of 1907 on schooner John R. Bradley; left Greenland March 3, 1908 and reached the pole April 21, 1908 where he placed the flag of the United States and buried the records of his trip

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