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	Lincoln Ellsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 - May 26, 1951) was a U.S. explorer.
		Son of James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler, he was born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent $100,000US to fund Roald Amundsen's venture from Norway to the North Pole in 1925.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lincoln_Ellsworth (175 words)

	Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth1837 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ellsworth decided to capture the flag, so he and a group of followers entered the Marshall House, went to the roof, hauled down the flag and began their escape.
		Ellsworth's funeral, held in the East Room of the White House, was attended by a bereaved President Lincoln.
		Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was the founder of the "Zouave Craze" that swept America on the eve of the Civil War, and without his zeal and his charisma, I doubt if we would have seen the 5th NY clad in Zouave uniform, or the numbers of Zouave troops that took the field in that conflict.
	www.dentongenealogy.org /Ellsworth.htm (1536 words)

	Elmer E. Ellsworth - Citizen Soldier
		Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was born to Ephraim Ellsworth and Phoebe Denton on April I 1, 1837 in the town of Malta.
		Lincoln planned on naming Ellsworth as head of the Bureau of the Militia, and among other things, he intended to send him to West Point with his Zouaves to demonstrate to the generals of the regular army how a real army should drill, and march, and fire.
		Ellsworth, meanwhile, was a regular visitor at the White House, and his zest for life and spontaneity in playing with the first family's two younger boys, Willie and Tad, were so refreshing that he stayed on for days at a time as a guest.
	www.mechanicville.com /history/ellsworth/citizensoldier.htm (1789 words)

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		Ellsworth, an intimate friend of the Lincoln family and frequent visitor to the White House, was painfully aware of how this emblem’s display vexed even the customarily stoical Abe Lincoln.
		As Ellsworth led his Zouave brigade, through the streets of Alexandria that fateful spring morning, he might have reminisced on their gallantry and patriotic zeal which he instilled within thier character since he had organized and trained this group of civilian volunteer soldiers.
		Ellsworth’s love interest, Carrie Spafford of Rockford, Illinois was so overcome with grief, that she did not attend the funeral.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/ellsworth (3696 words)

	James_Ellsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lincoln later made contributions to aviation in the Arctic and Antarctica, flying across the continent of Antarctica with Herbert Hollick-Kenyon in 1935.
		Ellsworth's strong belief in prohibition led to rather unusual arrangements with the city such as a 50 year ban on alcohol sales, for which he agreed to upgrade the sewer system throughout the city.
		Ellsworth is buried in Hudson, Ohio at the Markillie-St Mary's Cemetery.
	www.partsquote.com /search.php?title=James_Ellsworth (431 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Lincoln Ellsworth
		Ellsworth's initial exposure to polar adventures began on May 21, 1925, when he, Roald Amundsen and four other men set out in two Dornier flying boats, the N-24 and N-25, on a mission to be the first to fly to the North Pole.
		Ellsworth consented to attaching his name as scientific advisor to the expedition and when Ellsworth spoke of his Antarctic dream, Wilkins gave the impression that he would be willing to enlist as his advisor.
		Ellsworth raised the American flag and claimed the land between 80° W and 120° W for the United States and named the area, as before, in honor of his father.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000110.htm (6320 words)

	Lincoln Ellsworth Biography / Biography of Lincoln Ellsworth Main Biography
		Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951), American adventurer and explorer, became the first man to cross both the Arctic and the Antarctic by air.
		The son of a wealthy businessman and financier, Lincoln Ellsworth was born in Chicago on May 12, 1880.
		Ellsworth was a bold, imaginative, superbly conditioned man. He died in New York City on May 26, 1951.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-lincoln-ellsworth (480 words)

	LINCOLN ELLSWORTH FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lincoln Ellsworth (May_12, 1880 - May_26, 1951) was a U.S. explorer.
		Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent $100,000US to fund Roald_Amundsen's venture from Norway to the North Pole in 1925.
		On November_23, 1935, Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth_Mountains of Antarctica when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee_Island to the Ross_Ice_Shelf.
	www.witwib.com /Lincoln_Ellsworth (136 words)

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		Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951) was lucky enough to have a rich father and thus the freedom to realize his dreams.
		Ellsworth proposed to combine Shackleton's idea and Byrd's technique in a crossing of Antarctica by aircraft: 'The last great adventure!' He wanted to fly from Bay of Whales to the Weddell Sea and back again.
		Ellsworth economized neither on the ship, which he as a Western fan christened Wyatt Earp, nor on the aircraft, a special manufacture, which for its time flew at the remarkable speed of 370 kilometres per hour.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /focus/southpole/hist9.htm (648 words)

	Ellsworth Revisited
		But maybe this story remembers Ellsworth too much for the way he died rather than for the way he lived, and it is in the latter respect that he deserves to be not only remembered but celebrated.
		Later, while Ellsworth's body lie in state in the White House, Lincoln was so visibly shaken that he could not control his grief and shed tears publicly for the only time in his life.
		Ellsworth knew this; Ellsworth realized that this was a dangerous position to take; and Ellsworth knew that morally, he had to follow his conscience wherever it led him, even if to an early grave.
	www.mechanicville.com /history/ellsworth/ellsworth_revisited.htm (767 words)

	Elmer Ephraim Elsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ellsworth and four others quickly ascended the stairs; Ellsworth cut down the flag and was on the way down the stairs when the proprietor killed him with a shotgun blast to the chest.
		Lincoln, grief-stricken, had an honor guard bring his friend's body to the White House, where it lay in state on May 25.
		Ellsworth was buried in Mechanicville, N.Y. Fascinating Fact: Volunteers flocked to join the Union cause in response to Ellsworth's death.
	www.us-civilwar.com /ellsworth.htm (366 words)

	Western Reserve Academy - News & Events - Vince reviews newly published Ellsworth bio
		Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951) was born in Chicago, the son of wealthy industrialist James W. Ellsworth, who later became the principal benefactor of Western Reserve Academy.
		Lincoln himself spent part of his youth living with his grandmother at Evamere Farm in Hudson, briefly attending WRA in the mid 1890s.
		Ellsworth was honored by Congress in the late 1920s and later received a medal from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	www.wra.net /newsevents/release.cfm?article=508 (624 words)

	Polar Challenges / UK / Antarctic Expeditions / Antarctica 2000 - Dixie Dansercoer - Rudy Van Snick - Julie Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Ellsworth mountains owe their name to Lincoln Ellsworth, who first discovered them.
		Lincoln Ellsworth was the son of an American multi-millionaire from Pennsylvania.
		In love with the Antarctic, Ellsworth was the first person to consider flying across the whole of the continent in an aeroplane - it has to said that at the time, the interior of Antarctica was totally unexplored, except for the South Pole and its surrounding area.
	www.antarctica.org /FR/Expes/Pag_autres/intro_autres/Antar_2000_UK/pag/ellsworth_UK.htm (170 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: William O. Stoddard (1835-1925)
		Lincoln was "partial" to "Stod." "On many evenings he took 'Stod' along when he made his calls on Secretary of State Seward and once on a vitally important call on General McClellan.
		Lincoln, thereby acting as a personal buffer between her and the other two secretaries, among whom no love was lost.
		Lincoln instructed Stoddard to open and screen all of her letters, even those from her family.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=67&subjectID=2 (1291 words)

	Ellsworth Land -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		formerly Ellsworth Highland region in Antarctica at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Bellingshausen Sea, east of Marie Byrd Land.
		It embraces several mountain ranges, including the Ellsworth Mountains, the tallest peak of which, Vinson Massif (16,066 feet [4,897 metres] above sea level), is the highest in Antarctica.
		U.S. explorer Lincoln Ellsworth was born in Chicago, Ill. He traveled with Roald Amundsen on his Arctic flights of 1925 and 1926.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032452?tocId=9032452 (748 words)

	Abraham Lincoln Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lincoln was one day shy of his fifty-second birthday when he stepped onto the train which took him on his inaugural journey.
		Lincoln and their two younger sons met the inaugural train the next day in Indianapolis.
		Ellsworth would be killed a few months later in Alexandria, Virginia after removing a Confederate flag from a hotel.
	showcase.netins.net /web/creative/lincoln/quiz296.htm (427 words)

	Northrop Gamma Ellsworth Polar Star Antarctic Explorer
		Ellsworth, a World War I pilot, was the son of a Chicago millionaire coal mine owner.
		The one and only Gamma Model 2B was delivered to Lincoln Ellsworth who named it 'the Polar Star.' Ellsworth took the airplane to Antartica aboard a ship in 1934 with the famous aviator Bernt Balchen as his pilot.
		Ellsworth and the Polar Star returned to Antartica in September, however before a flight could be made the plane broke a connecting rod and had to be shipped off once again for repairs.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Northrop-Gamma/info/info.htm (2151 words)

	IGF: Varnell, Paul. 'The Great Lincoln Debate: Lincoln May Well Have Been Gay...'
		Citing a comment about Lincoln's lanky frame by a man who met him when Lincoln was 10, Tripp places Lincoln's puberty at a remarkably early 9 or 10, and points out that Kinsey's found that men with very earlier puberty had higher rates of homosexuality.
		Billy Greene told an early Lincoln biographer that he thought Lincoln was “well and firmly built: his thighs were as perfect as a human being could be.” The two men regularly shared a cot “so narrow that when one turned over the other had to do likewise,” Greene said.
		Lincoln had “a special interest” in Ellsworth, one friend wrote, intrigued to lure him to Springfield and called him “the greatest little man I ever met.” On becoming President, Lincoln obtained preferential assignments for him and when Ellsworth was killed early in the Civil War Lincoln was inconsolable.
	www.indegayforum.org /authors/varnell/varnell146.html (856 words)

	Information about U.S. Proofcard®: 25¢ Lincoln Ellsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Among them was Lincoln Ellsworth, whose air exploits took him to both poles of the planet.
		Ellsworth was a bold American pilot whose four expeditions to Antarctica brought him fame and respect.
		Between the years of 1933 and 1939, Lincoln Ellsworth explored Antarctica from the air.
	www.unicover.com /EA4PABTA.HTM (410 words)

	RISMedia - Residential Real Estate's Largest Independent News & Information Service - Immediate access to industry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lincoln had received 70 to 100 requests for information packets as of Thursday afternoon, she said.
		Ellsworth started with 19 free lots, and three of those have been claimed, Booher said.
		Lincoln, Ellsworth, Minneapolis, Atwood, Plainville and Marquette are among the Kansas communities with incentive programs that include free land.
	www.rismedia.com /index.php/article/articleview/9291/1/1 (411 words)

	"Ellsworth and The Zouave Craze" -- Co. A, 5th New York Volunteer Infantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Ellsworth was born at Malta, Saratoga County, in New York, on April 11, 1837, and raised in the Hudson River town of Mechanicville.
		Not content to rest on his laurels, Ellsworth issued a blanket challenge to the State Militias of a dozen states: That his Zouaves would compete against them in drill competition for the prize of a specially commissioned flag.
		Bored with the study of law, the 24-year-old Ellsworth welcomed the coming of War, and after traveling to Washington with his friend, newly elected President Lincoln, he hastened to New York to raise an entire regiment of Zouaves for the Union.
	www.zouave.org /craze.html (1087 words)

	44th New York Infantry Regiment & Colonel E. Elmer Ellsworth
		Colonel Ellsworth was the first Union officer to be killed in the war, and his death triggered an outpouring of grief in the North.
		Ellsworth had been born in 1837 near Albany, New York, and a call went out from a number of the prominent citizens of that city to avenge his death by raising a regiment made up of one man from each town and ward in the Empire State.
		I have a photograph of a portion of the flag that Colonel ELLSWORTH caused to be removed from atop the MARSHALL House Tavern.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /elllsworth.html (1435 words)

	Ellsworth -- Granduncle Mark's Genealogy Parlor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		President Lincoln arranged for Col. Elmer Ellsworth's funeral to be held in the East Room of the White House.
		Or, people who carry the Ellsworth middle name, especially when someone in the family background was given "Elmer Ellsworth" as first and middle names, may unknowingly carry on the tradition of naming boys for the Civil War figure.
		My great-grandmother was born a Denton, and she's the one who started the tradition of giving Ellsworth as a middle name to Hickman men, a few years after Col. Elmer Ellsworth became a hero and martyr as the first Union Soldier killed in the U.
	home.insightbb.com /~Grand_Uncle_Mark/ellswort.html (813 words)

	ellsworth: Index
		Ellsworth, Ida Isabelle (marriage to Lester William Ellsworth) (i236), b.1869-d.1944
		Ellsworth, Lester William (marriage to Ida Isabelle Ellsworth) (i235), b.1873-d.1914
		Wingrove, Ella A. (marriage to Fernando 8 Ellsworth) (i7646), b.1865-d.1938
	www.ellisgen.com /ellsworth/nindex.htm (469 words)

	Stevens Point Journal - Lincoln grapplers go 3-0 at own invite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lincoln (20-3) beat Totino-Grace, the No. 4 Class 3A team in Minnesota 34-14 in the first round, edged Division 2 No. 4 Ellsworth 32-26 and closed out the day with a 35-30 win over Glenbard, North, Ill., which is currently ranked 33rd in the nation.
		Lincoln's biggest scare of the day came from Ellsworth, a dual which came down to the last match.
		Round 2-Lincoln 32, Ellsworth 26; Glenbard North 42, Totino-Grace 24.
	www.wisinfo.com /journal/spjsports/283511306127830.shtml (486 words)

	Ellsworth, Lincoln on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		He became the financial supporter and associate of Roald Amundsen in his arctic aviation ventures.
		In 1926 they flew in the dirigible Norge N from Spitsbergen over the North Pole to Alaska, where Ellsworth distinguished himself by saving the lives of two companions.
		He was an observer in the 1931 flight of the Graf Zeppelin to Franz Josef Land and Northern Land.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/EllswortL1.asp (381 words)

	Northrop Gamma
		It was Ellsworth’s use of the airplane for exploration, rather than his skills as a pilot, that earned him his place in aviation history.
		October and November were considered the best months for flying there, and this time Ellsworth planned to fly from Deception Island to the head of the Weddell Sea.
		Ellsworth named a portion of that area James W. Ellsworth Land in honor of his father.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/northgamma.htm (773 words)

	The World of Lincoln Ellsworth by Beekman H. Pool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Now, the world of Lincoln Ellsworth, a complex and enigmatic man, is seen through the eyes of his friend, author Beekman H. Pool.
		While Lincoln’s father realized some magnificent dreams of a turn-of-the-century business pioneer, he was stern and aloof, embodying a worldly rationality that was foreign to his son.
		The true-to-life stories of explorer friendships and camaraderie are revealed, together with intrigue and cunning that characterize the competition among men who strive to be first in discovering and claiming the new for themselves and their countries.
	www.polarextremes.com (788 words)

	The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.
		Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, born near Malta, N.Y. in 1837, was prevented by familial poverty and lack of influence from attaining his boyhood dream of attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
		Living with the Lincolns for a brief time in the fall of 1860, Ellsworth became a great favorite of the family and essentially a surrogate son to the future President, and was invited along on the inaugural journey to Washington
		Ellsworth’s personal goal was to remove a large rebel flag flying atop the Marshall House, a city hotel, which was goadingly visible from Lincoln’s White House.
	www.alincolnbookshop.com /html/lincoln_civil_war.htm (4587 words)

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