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Show discover er of the home dead REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY DIES AT WASHINGTON HOME FOLLOWING OPERATION. Intrepid Arctic Explorer Who Brought Fame to His Country as Result Re-sult of His Exploits Passes to His Reward. Washington. Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the north pole, died at his home here, February 20, following an operation, from pernicious perni-cious anaemia.' After the operation, the admiral showed a slight change for the better and was removed to his home. Peary's wife, son, son-in-law and daughter and his niece were at his bedside when the end came. Robert Edwin Peary, intrepid Arctic explorer and discoverer of the North pele, was born In Pennsylvania, and in his later life lived in Washington, but Maine always claimed him as one of her sons. The Roosevelt, the ship that carried the party north through the frozen waters to the pole, was built in a Maine shipyard, and Peary for many years lived during the summer months on an Island in Casco bay, near Portland, Me. In fact, he owned several islands in that neighborhood. Born in Cresson, Pa., May 6, 1856, Admiral Peary got his early education at North Bridgeton, Me., academy, and later entered Bowdoin college, from which he was graduated in 1877. He entered the United States navy in 1S81 as a civil engineer. It was in 1886 that Peary, then but 30 years old, made his first trip north and caught the Arctic fever. From that date until September, 1909, was a con- tinuous period of planning and effort |