Josephine Cecilia Diebitsch Peary was born in Forestville, Maryland on May 22, 1863. She is considered the first white woman to winter in the Arctic. In 1893 her book My Arctic Journal was published. She was the wife of Robert E. Peary, whom she actively supported in...
Frederick Cook was born on June 10, 1865 in Hortonville, New York. Cook studied at Columbia University and later at New York University, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1890. At the age of 37, he married Marie Fidele Hunt, with whom he had a daughter....