11/10/2023 0 Comments Eagle island state park maine![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania in 1856. However, shortly after his father died in 1859, his mother moved to Portland, Maine where Peary was raised. He then attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1877 with an engineering degree. He joined the United States Navy in 1881 and was commissioned a civil engineer. He then began surveying for a canal route through Nicaragua during the mid-1880s and made his first journey to the Artic aboard the whaling ship, Eagle, in 1886. In 1888 he married Josephine Diebitsch. Prior to returning to Nicaragua, he met and hired an African-American store clerk with sailing experience, Matthew Henson, to be his field assistant. Henson would accompany Peary on all his subsequent journeys to the Artic. ![]()
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