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Baldwin (EVELYN BRIGGS an American)

EVELYN BRIGGS, an American explorer, born in Springfield, Mo., in 1862. He graduated from Northwestern College in 1885, and from 1887 to 1891 was principal of a high school, and superintendent of city schools in Kansas from 1892 to 1900. From 1892 to 1900 he acted as observer of United States Weather Bureau and inspector-atlarge of the signal corps of the United States. He accompanied Peary on his North Greenland expedition in 1893- 1894, and was meteorologist and second in command in Walter Wellman's expedition to Franz-Josef Land in 1898-1899. In the latter year he discovered and explored Graham Bell Land, organized and commanded the Baldwin-Ziegler polar expedition in 1901-1902, and later carried on other explorations on the northeast coast of Greenland. He was the author of "Search for the North Pole"; "Franz-Josef Land" (1898); "North Greenland Expedition" (1894); etc.