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See also:KANE, See also:ELISHA See also:KENT (1820–1857) , See also:American scientist and explorer, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia on the loth of See also:February 182o, the son of the jurist See also:John Kintzing Kane (1795–1858), a friend and supporter of See also:Andrew See also:Jackson, See also:attorney-See also:general of See also:Pennsylvania in 1845-1846, U.S. See also:judge of the Eastern See also:District of Pennsylvania after 1846, and See also:president of the American Philosophical Society in 1856–1858. See also:Young Kane entered the university of See also:Virginia and obtained the degree of M.D. in 1842, and in the following See also:year entered the U.S. See also:navy as surgeon. He had already acquired a considerable reputation in physiological See also:research. The See also:ship to which he was appointed was ordered to See also:China, and he found opportunities during the voyage for indulging his See also:passion for exploration, making a See also:journey from Rio de Janeiro to the See also:base of the See also:Andes, and another from Bombay through See also:India to See also:Ceylon. On the arrival of the ship at its destination he provided a substitute for his See also:post and crossed over to the See also:island of Luzon, which he explored. In 1844 he See also:left China, and, returning by India, See also:Persia, See also:Syria, See also:Egypt, See also:Greece, See also:Austria, See also:Germany and See also:Switzerland, reached See also:America in 1846. In that year he was ordered to the See also:west See also:coast of See also:Africa, where he visited See also:Dahomey, and contracted See also:fever, which told severely on his constitution. On his return in 1847, he exchanged the See also:naval for the military service, and was sent to join the U.S. See also:army in See also:Mexico, where he had some extraordinary adventures, and where he was again stricken with fever.
On the fitting out of the first See also:Grinnell expedition, in 1850, to See also:search for See also:Sir John See also:Franklin, Kane was appointed surgeon and naturalist under Lieut. de Haven, who commanded the See also:ships " Advance " and " See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
Rescue." The expedition, after an See also:absence of sixteen months, during nine of which the ships were See also:ice-See also:bound, returned without having found any trace of the missing vessels. Kane was in feeble See also:health, but worked on at his narrative of the expedition, which was published in 1854, under the See also:title of The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. He was determined not to give up the search for Franklin, and in spite of See also:ill-health travelled through the States lecturing to obtain funds, and gave up his pay for twenty months. At length See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Grinnell fitted out an expedition, in the little brig " Advance," of which Kane was given thecommand. She sailed in See also:June 18J3, and passing up See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith See also:Sound at the See also:head of See also:Baffin See also:Bay advanced into the enclosed See also:sea which now bears the name of Kane See also:Basin, thus establishing the Polar route of many future See also:Arctic expeditions. Here, off the 'coast of See also:Greenland, the expedition passed two winters, accomplishing much useful See also:geographical, as well as scientific, See also:work, including the attainment of what was to remain for sixteen years the highest See also:northern See also:latitude, 8o° 35' N. (June 1854)• From this point a large See also:area of open See also:water was seen which was believed to be an " open Polar Sea," a chimera which played an important and delusive role in subsequent explorations. After enduring the greatest hardships it was resolved to abandon the ship, Upernivik being reached on the 5th of See also:August 1855, whence a See also:relief expedition brought the explorers See also:home. Medals were authorized by, See also:Congress, and in the following year Dr Kane received the founder's See also:medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and, two years later, a See also:gold medal from the See also:Paris Geographical Society. He published The Second Grinnell Expedition in 1856. Dr Kane died at See also:Havana on the 16th of February 1857, at the See also:age of See also:thirty-seven. Between his first and second arctic voyages he made the acquaintance of the See also:Fox See also:family, the spiritualists. With one of the daughters, See also:Margaret, he carried on a See also:long See also:correspondence, which was afterwards published by the See also:lady, who declared that they were privately married.
'See See also:Biography of E. K. Kane, by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Elder (1858); See also:Life of E. K. Kane and other American Explorers, by S. M. Smucker (1858) ; The Love-Life of Dr Kane, containing the Correspondence and a See also:History of the Engagement and See also:Secret See also:Marriage between E. K. Kane and Margaret Fox (New See also:York, 1866) ;. " Discoveries of Dr Kane," in Jour. of the See also:Roy. Geog See also:Soc., vol. See also:xxviii. (reprinted in R. G. S. Arctic Papers of 1875).
End of Article: KANE, ELISHA KENT (1820–1857)
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