Elisha Kent Kane, an American surgeon and explorer, died Feb. 16, 1857. Kane participated in two Arctic voyages in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Both voyages were sponsored by an American businessman, Henry Grinnell, who bought the ships and provided them...
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