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Isaac was born March 4, 1821, in Roxbury, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States, of Scots-Irish origin. He was a son of Robert Strain and Eliza (Geddes) Strain.
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Isaac was born March 4, 1821, in Roxbury, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States, of Scots-Irish origin. He was a son of Robert Strain and Eliza (Geddes) Strain.
In 1842 he was ordered to the naval school at Philadelphia, which he attended for nearly a year.
He entered the navy as a midshipman, December 15, 1837, and first saw service in the West Indies and on the Brazilian coast.
After 1842 he then secured leave of absence from the navy for the purpose of conducting an exploring expedition into Brazil. This expedition, partly financed by members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, was not entirely successful, and in 1844 Strain joined the Constitution at Rio de Janeiro and served on her in the East Indies.
In 1848 he served on the west coast of Mexico in the Ohio in the vicinity of Mazatl n and Guaymas. That summer, following the close of the war with Mexico, while the Ohio lay anchored at La Paz, Lower California, Strain landed and explored the peninsula as far as the time allotted him would allow.
Early in the winter of 1848-49 he took passage in the Lexington for New York but obtained permission to leave his ship at Valparaiso. From there he crossed the continent to Buenos Aires, embodying his observations in a book, Cordillera and Pampa, Mountain and Plain: Sketches of a Journey in Chile and the Argentine Provinces in 1849 (1853).
He was lent to the Interior Department (January 23, 1850) to serve on the Mexican Boundary Commission, and in 1853 volunteered to conduct an exploration of the Isthmus of Darien between Caledonia Bay on the Caribbean and the Gulf of San Miguel on the Pacific, to determine the possibility of a ship-canal across the isthmus by that route. The privations and sufferings endured by his party, as well as his own energy and fortitude, brought him into public notice. In his report to the Department he declared this route to be "utterly impracticable".
In the summer of 1856 he joined the expedition in the steamer Arctic under Lieut. Otway H. Berryman to ascertain by soundings the possibility of a submarine telegraph cable between the United States and Great Britain. Never recovering from the effects of the hardships of the Darien expedition, he died at Aspinwall (later Colen), Panama. Though he never attained a higher rank than lieutenant, nor ever commanded a ship, his restless ambition led him to seek occasion to explore unknown lands and won him the recognition of his superiors. He died in 1857.
Isaac G. Strain commanded an 1843 exploratory expedition to the interior of Brazil, Province of São Paulo. In 1848 he began an exploration of the peninsula of Lower California; he worked with the U. S. Mexican Boundary Commission. Strain was promoted to lieutenant in 1850. In 1849 he explored parts of South America and wrote Cordillera and Pampa, Mountain and Plain: Sketches of a Journey in Chili and The Argentine Provinces. Besides he wrote A Paper on the History and Prospects of Interoceanic Communication by the American Isthmus (1856).
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He was a member of the American Ethnological Society of New York. Besides, he was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; the Historical and Geographical Institute of Brazil; and the American Ethnological Society of New York.
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By the secretary of the navy, James Cochran Dobbin, he was called "an accomplished and enterprising officer".
