Anaukaq Henson, Greenland child of the great explorer of the Artic, Matthew Henson, an african american, who explored with Robert E. Peary.
NOTE
While conducting research in Greenland in 1986, Counter met the eighty-year-old Inuit sons of the North Pole co-discoverers, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson.
Counter organized and raised the funds to bring Anaukaq Henson, Kali Peary and their some of their families to the United States to meet their American relatives in 1987.
Counter sought proper recognition for Matthew Henson's contributions to Arctic exploration and co-discovery of the North Pole in 1909, and his work led to President Ronald Reagan granting an exception to Arlington National Cemetery's burial policy, allowing for the bodies of Henson and his wife, Lucy Ross Henson, being moved from their graves in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, to be reinterred next to his friend Peary at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. The U.S. Navy commissioning a U.S.N.S. oceanographic explorer ship named in Henson's honor.
http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/s-allen-counter-41
I have too many sources to list. But his obituaries say he died in 1987.
Anaukaq Henson, Greenland child of the great explorer of the Artic, Matthew Henson, an african american, who explored with Robert E. Peary.
NOTE
While conducting research in Greenland in 1986, Counter met the eighty-year-old Inuit sons of the North Pole co-discoverers, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson.
Counter organized and raised the funds to bring Anaukaq Henson, Kali Peary and their some of their families to the United States to meet their American relatives in 1987.
Counter sought proper recognition for Matthew Henson's contributions to Arctic exploration and co-discovery of the North Pole in 1909, and his work led to President Ronald Reagan granting an exception to Arlington National Cemetery's burial policy, allowing for the bodies of Henson and his wife, Lucy Ross Henson, being moved from their graves in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, to be reinterred next to his friend Peary at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. The U.S. Navy commissioning a U.S.N.S. oceanographic explorer ship named in Henson's honor.
http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/s-allen-counter-41
I have too many sources to list. But his obituaries say he died in 1987.
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