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Fitzhugh Green Sr. (August 16, 1888 – December 2, 1947) was an arctic explorer on the Crocker Land Expedition and a writer.
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Fitzhugh Green Sr. (August 16, 1888 – December 2, 1947) was an arctic explorer on the Crocker Land Expedition and a writer.
Biography
He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on August 16, 1888, to Charles Edward Green, a cotton broker; and Isabelle Fitzhugh Perryman. He attended the United States Naval Academy atAnnapolis, Maryland
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and graduated in 1909. He was commissioned an ensign in 1911. Green then received an M.S. from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1913.
From 1912 to 1913, he was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance. In 1913, he requested the permission of the United States Navy to join Donald B. MacMillan's Crocker Land Expedition which lasted until 1916. While on that expedition, he shot and killed Peeawahto, his Inuit guide, but was never prosecuted for his deed. He was promoted to commander in March 1927.
He married Natalie Wheeler Elliot on November 27, 1916, in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Richard McCall Elliot, a business executive of Philadelphia. They had three children: Fitzhugh Green Jr.
Fitzhugh Green Jr. (September 12, 1917 – September 5, 1990) was an executive with Vicks Chemical Company and then with ''Life'' magazine. In 1954, he was the deputy vice-chairman for the National Citizens for Eisenhower/Nixon Congressional Co ...
, Elisabeth Farnum Green, who married Richard Hooker Wilmer; and Richard Elliot Green. The couple later divorced. On November 15, 1933, he married Margery Durant Campbell Daniel. She was the daughter of the automobile manufacturer William Crapo Durant
William Crapo Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry and co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet. He created a system in which a company held multiple marques – each s ...
. She had been married threes times previously, first to Edwin R. Campbell, and then to Robert Williams Daniel and to John Hampton Cooper.
Green also served in the Navy during World War II.
In September 1947, Fitzhugh Green and Margery were arrested for possession of opiates along with a private detective, Clemens P. Deisler and they pleaded guilty. He died on December 2, 1947, at the Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut.
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.
Green authored the novel ''ZR Wins'' (1924), about a dirigible flight to the North Pole in search of a lost colony of Vikings.
Archive
His papers are archived at Georgetown University.References
External links
Fitzhugh Green, Sr. papers
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