Show discoverer DISCOVER EH OF TH E NUTH POLE OEM DEAD REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E PEARY EPEARY DIES AT washington HOME FOLLOWING OPERATION intrepid arctic explorer who drought brought fame to his country as re suit cult krhla exploits paste passes to hl HI reward washington rear admiral robert E H peary discoverer of tile tho north pole died at tits ills home here february 20 following tin nn operation from clous after tho the operation the admiral adin trat showed a slight change tor for the better and ivas was removed to tits home biome wife alfe son swi ln law and daughter and tits hl illece were at ills bedside when tho the end cattle cann robert edwin bleary intrepid arctic aichle explorer r er and discoverer of the north pole was bom in ili pennsylvania ond and in ills his later inter life lived in ili washington but malno always alahna blin aono aone of tier her sons the roosevelt tho the still that carried the party north through the frozen waters to the pole was built lit in a maine nine Ail shipyard and penry peary for many years lived during the summer suni nier months on oil nil all island in casca bily bay near portland io in ili fact lie owned several sev fial islands lit in that neighbor neighborhood bood clorn tit in creson crass on ila ia abay dinv inv 0 1850 admiral peary got ot ills his early education tit at north livid geton eton ilo to ii and later entered Itow Ilow doln college colle Kc front from which lie was graduated lit in 1877 ile iio entered the united states navy in 1881 as a civil r it was la in 1880 1886 that hat peary then but ao 80 years old made lils li ls first trip north and the arctic fever front from that date until september 1009 was a 9 con |