Career
Bakewell was hired on as an Able Seaman. Bakewell"s adventures, including his time on board the Endurance, are documented in his own words in his memoir The American on the Endurance. He was born on November 26, 1888 in Joliet, Illinois.
From 1914 to 1916 he participated in the Imperial Transport-Antarctic Expedition.
In 1923 he returned to Joliet and worked at Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. He next was a towerman for the Rock Island Railroad.
During World World War II he worked at the Diesel Electric Plant in Louisiana Grange, Illinois. In August of 1945 he bought a farm in Michigan.
He died on May 21, 1969 in Dukes, Michigan.
Bakewell Island is named in his honor.