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explorer military physician Soldier
Elisha Kent Kane was born on February 3, 1820 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, of distinguished parentage. His father, John Kintzing Kane, was a lawyer of ability and culture; his mother, Jane Duval Leiper, an accomplished beauty. Elisha was the eldest of five sons and one daughter.
In youth Kane disliked study and was incessantly active. When a student at the University of Virginia from September 1838 to November 1839, he contracted rheumatic fever which left his heart permanently impaired. He graduated on March 19, 1842, from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.
On September 14, 1843 Elisha Kent became assistant surgeon in the United States Navy. He was appointed physician to the China Mission under Caleb Cushing and spent eighteen months in the Orient, Africa, and Europe, fervidly seeking adventure. He was long ill in China. At the outset of the Mexican War he was ordered to the African Squadron but was invalided home with coast fever. Later he secured orders for Mexico where he achieved some fame in a casual encounter with the enemy. From Mexico he was again invalided home, recovering from wounds and a virulent typhus.
In 1850 he was attached to the United States Coast Survey. In this year a government expedition, using ships supplied by Henry Grinnell, was organized under Lieut. Edwin J. DeHaven, U. S. N. to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. Kane sought and obtained the post of senior medical officer with this expedition, which provided him with a rugged polar novitiate. He told its story in a stirring narrative, The U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (1853), which in abridged form was reprinted in 1915 under the title, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack.
Upon his return to New York, in September 1851, he immediately launched plans for a new expedition. Popular belief and many first-rank scientists, including M. F. Maury, posited an open polar sea. On the shores of such a sea some remnant of Franklin's men might yet be alive; the route to that sea might lie through Smith Sound; no one had yet sailed beyond its northern portals. Kane determined to do so. John P. Kennedy, secretary of the navy, gave enthusiastic personal support, and Henry Grinnell donated the brig Advance. Private subscription financed the enterprise.
The Second Grinnell Expedition sailed from New York May 31, 1853, with Passed Assistant Surgeon Kane, assigned to special duty, in command. Passing through Smith Sound the brig entered unknown waters now called Kane Basin. The way north was icebound. The only water passage hugged the shore, bearing toward the northeast. Against the recommendations of his officers, Kane forced the brig up this hazardous waterway. The expedition wintered at Rensselaer Bay. The first winter brought to light serious deficiencies of equipment. Scurvy appeared; the dogs died, but Kane indomitably held to his plans.
The first spring sledging party broke down and was rescued only by that superhuman energy which served Kane in extremity. Two men died; but the commander, himself scurvy-ridden and at times near death, steadily sustained his campaign. In May, Isaac I. Hayes, surgeon of the expedition, crossed Kane Basin reaching Ellesmere Land. In June, William Morton reached Cape Constitution, 80° 10' N. , "Farthest North" for the western hemisphere. Morton saw Kennedy Channel ice-free, tumbling in sunshine. Kane reported the evidence as further attesting the open polar sea theory, yet reserved opinion that it might well be another "illusory discovery. " No trace of Franklin's party was found by the expedition, but the coasts of Kane Basin were charted and Kennedy Channel was discovered, later to be the route of Hayes, Charles F. Hall, A. W. Greely, and fifty-four years afterward, of Robert E. Peary.
In August 1854 Hayes and eight men, protesting the commander's resolve to remain a second winter, announced their determination to hazard the journey to the South Greenland settlements. Kane, sanctioning the withdrawal, equipped them from limited supplies. In December they returned to the vessel, broken in body and morale. Kane became doctor, nurse, and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. With indomitable courage he planned and then executed their escape. The Advance, still frozen in, was abandoned May 20, 1855. With the loss of one man, the party, carrying the invalids, reached Upernivik in eighty-three days, a retreat which stands in the annals of Arctic exploration as archetype of victory in defeat. A government relief expedition under Lieutenant H. J. Hartstene found them in South Greenland, and landed them in New York, on October 11, 1855.
Kane wrote his book, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1853, '54, '55 (2 vols. , 1856), told his publisher, whose fortune it made, "The book, poor as it is, has been my coffin, " sailed for England, met Lady Franklin, left for Havana, and died there February 16, 1857, just after his thirty-seventh birthday. The funeral journey was a pageant of national mourning. The body lay in state in New Orleans, Louisville, Columbus, Baltimore, and finally in Independence Hall. Military, civic, masonic processions were organized; poems, editorials, sermons were composed. Arctic Explorations lay for a decade with the Bible on almost literally every parlor table in America.
Elisha Kent Kane was well-known for leading two Arctic expeditions to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. The party accomplished meteorological, magnetic, astronomical, and tidal observations, botanical, glacial, and geological surveys, studies of animal and Eskimo life, which established sound foundations for the scientific study of the Arctic. Dr. Kane received medals from Congress, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Société de Géographie.
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Kane became a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1855.
Between his expeditions Kane met Margaret Fox, the Spiritualist medium. They were often seen together and it is known that he tried unsuccessfully to sever her connections with Spiritualism. After the Civil War an anonymous book appeared, entitled The Love-Life of Dr. Kane (1866), claiming to be his letters to Margaret and asserting that there had been a common-law marriage. The letters bore evidence of being at least in part genuine. The editing was vulgar and untrustworthy.
