The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12
CITY, UTAH. SUNDAY SEPT H. 1909


other such experience.
/ During the remainder of this march
ne continues. and the next week, we cUi
/ our way slowly through a hell Of shat
! tered ice such as 1 hope never to SEE
! again--a conglomeration of fragments
| from the size of a paving stone to the
/ dome of the Capitol. rounded by the ter
rifle grinding they had received between
| the jams Of the big lead
/ The rest of the march led them past
/ Britannia island to Cape May. then to
! Cape Bryant and later to Repuise Har-
| Dor At last they headed across Robson
/ little north of Cape Union There an Is
/ kimO said.
''Tigerakshua keska svoyounL" C'Back
/ again, thank God.'D
/ The rest was easy comparatively. With
| 81 dogs left out of the 30 that had started.
/ PGaTy reached the Roosevelt below Cape
| Union, July 3d. 1906 They boarded her
with the satisfaction of holding the rec
ord for farthest north. She hammered
and ground her way through the bergs
and ice floes of the northern seas and so
came to St Georges bay, Newfoundland.
/ on Nov. 10, 1906.
Personnel of the Expedition.
/ Following is a complete roster of those
who are ON board the Roosevelt, with bio
graphical sketches of the members of the
expedition and officers of the vessel:
John W. GOOdSell, surgeon Of the eNpe-
I
/ at LeeChburg, Pa, Jan. 10, 1873. He is
/ % years of age. unmarried feet 10 inches
! in height, and weighs 200 pounds. He com
/ pleted the regular courses at the Leech-
I burg grammer and high schools and then
taught school for one year before taking
| up his professional studies of medicine.
/ lie then attended the PuIte Medical col
/ lege. Cincinnati O.. where he received his
/ NJ. D. degree i'm 1898. After graduation
! he established himself at New Kensing-
! ton, Pa. and soon built up a constantly
growing practice until now at the end OF
! ten years of successful work ne leaves
a large practice, both medical and sur
gICal i'm order to accept the coveted an
pointmant as surgeon to the expedition.
Although he has never been to sea him-
self, still it is I'm the blood. as his father
spent several years on whaling vessels
and later on a mail steamer plying to
/ ports i'm the Indian ocean.
In addition to his work as a general
practitioner. DR.. GOOdsell has acted as
surgeon to the mills of the American
Sheet and Tin Plate company. and has
/ built up a considerable practice as a con-
sulung microscopic among the medical
profession Of the PittsburC district He
| is member of the Homeopathic Medical
Society of Pennsylvania and of the Amer
/ lean Medical association. His high stand
/ ing among his own profession is evidenced
/ by the fact that he has served as secre-
! tary and later as president of the ALE
Sheny Valley Medical society. Among his
publications of note the more important
ones are Direct AIiorOSCODic Examine
ton as Applied to Preventive Medicine
and the Newer Therdpy" and "TuberCu-
/ losis and Its Diagnosis" Dr.. GOOdseIl
expects to make a special investigation
of tuberCulaT conditions among the ma
uVes and of the curative effects of the
arctic atmosphere
Professor Ross @. Marvin of the Col
leEe of Civil Engineering Cornell univer-
sIty. Is on leave of absence from that
D r.1-.4.
! begun on the previous expedition of 1905
/ y5- Professor Marvin was born of Ameri-
can parents at Elmira. y. Y Jan 2S
1880. and has always made Elmira his
nome. He Is Is years of age. feet y
. inches I'm height and weighs 100 pounds
After completing the regular courses in
the grammar and high schools at home
/ he won q competitive scholarship to Cor
nell university and held several scholar
snip prizes during his course there Be
fore graduation from Cornell he compIet-
/ ed the two years course i'm navigation ON
board the New York nautical sChoOIshiu
81 Mary S. and later held position as
quafjermasjer there for one year. visit
ing the various seaTOTts of Europe ana
northern Africa for three summers.
A Cornell Graduate.
He received the degree of A. 3 from
Cornell university i'm June 1905 and i'm
maaiately upon graduation was chosen as
Commodore PeaTy'S secretary and assist
ant Tor the expedition of 1896. To those
familiar with The history of that exDedi-
ton his work. is already well known.
Since his r-l.rn he has been on the IN
struCtng staff of Cornell university. and.
TeaIIzlng the value TO the scientific world
or the work being done by these eNueGf-
lions. that institution has very generously
granted him leave of absence i'm order
10 accompany Commodore PpaTv once
more. and continue his valuable work al
ready under way. Professor Marvin goes
H f4r4- D
university. and viii once more act as
ant
Donald b. Mcmillan. as assistant i'm the
expedition party, was born of Scotch par
ents i'm Provfncetowu. Mass, Nov. 10. 1874.
lt- IS vs years OF age. unmarried. feet
@ inches IN height and weighs l65 pounds.
After his preliminary education i'm Prov
ncetown his people moved to Frccport.
Ne where Ha finished his high school
course and prepared to enter Bowdoiu
college lie received the A. B. degree
from BoWduiu college I'm 1898. and took ND
teaching as profession. lie has held
the following positions I'm the past ten
years. Two wears principal Of the Levi
High school at North Gorham. Me The
next three years head OF the classical de-
partmeut at SWaTIhmOre Preparatory
school, SwaTthmOre. Pa. The last five
years he has been physical director at
Worcester academy, Worcester. Mass
lie comes from "a family Of seafariug
people. his father. as captain, having
been lost mt sea with an hands. For the
past six summers me has been connected
with Camp Wychmere. a summer school
and nautical camp I'm Casco bay. Port
land. Me. The most of his life has been
spent along the seacOast. and he has made
many coaStinE trips on various schoUDors
at odd vacation times, so that he is CON
siderable of seafarinE man.
George Borup. am assistant in the cN-
peditIOn party. was born at Sing Sing
Colonel BOrup, I. s. A, retired. He is -
years Of age. feet So inches i'm height.
and weighs 10 pounds. He received the
usual grammar school training al his
home and then spent four years at the
Grotou school at GrOtOn. Mass. prepare
tory to entering Yale university. He has
Travelled considerably. having made sew
eral trips to European ports. SO that life
on the water is not entirely new to him.
He entered Yale university. and after
completing his four years of study i'm the
academic department he was graduated i'm
June. 1907. with the degree of A. b. After
graduation he secured one of the college
apprenticeships with the Pennsylvania
railroad, and was stationed at its large
shops i'm Altoona. Pa. He remained there
until he joined the present expedition to
go north. As "a member of the scientific
staff of the expedition. among his other
duties will be those of photographer and
he expects to make special studies along
the newly developed lines Of color pho
Biography. which will he distinctly new
in arctic work.
Matthew Henseu, Commander Peary's
personal assistant. was born Of negro
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