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    Arctic Explorer &#; Matthew Henson

    Arctic Explorer &#; Matthew Henson

    This man of African descent was an explorer . He is and remains the first man to stand on and touch the top of the world.

    “I think I’m the first man to sit on top of the world,” is not something many people can boast, especially if they lead perfectly normal lives, say, working a desk job in the city in relative anonymity. But for many years, that was the truth of Matthew Henson.

    He recorded his Arctic memoirs in , in the book A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. In , a year-old Henson finally received the acknowledgment he deserved: The highly regarded Explorers Club in New York accepted him as an honorary member. In he and the other members of the expedition were awarded a Congressional Medal. He worked with Bradley Robinson to write his biography, Dark Companion, which was published in

    Early Life

    Matthew Alexander Henson was born on August 8, , in Charles County, Maryland. The son of two freebor

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    A NEGRO EXPLORER AT THE
    NORTH POLE

    Project Gutenberg's A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, bygd Matthew A. Henson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Author: Matthew A. Henson Commentator: Robert E. Peary Booker T. Washington Release Date: March 28, [EBook #] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A NEGRO EXPLORER AT THE NORTH POLE *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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    Matthew A Henson

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    Born

    Matthew Alexander Henson


    ()August 8,

    Nanjemoy, Maryland, U.S.

    DiedMarch 9, () (aged 88)

    The Bronx, New York, US

    Resting placeArlington National Cemetery
    Known forArctic explorer, claimed as the first to reach the geographic North Pole
    Spouse(s)

    Eva Flint

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    (m. ⁠–⁠)​


    Akatingwah
    ChildrenAnauakaq (–; by Akatingwah)

    Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8,  – March 9, ) was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together. He is best known for his participation in the – expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, Henson said he was the first of their party to reach the pole.

    Henson was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to sharecropper parents who were free Black Americans before the Civil War. He spent mos