Fitzhugh Green Sr.

Fitzhugh Green Sr. (August 16, 1888 – December 2, 1947) was an arctic explorer on the Crocker Land Expedition and a writer.[1][2]

Green circa 1913

Biography

He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on August 16, 1888 to Charles Edward Green, a cotton broker; and Isabelle Fitzhugh Perryman. He attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and graduated in 1909. He was commissioned an ensign in 1911. Green then received an M.S. from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1913.

From 1912 to 1913, he was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance. In 1913, he requested the permission of the United States Navy to join Donald B. MacMillan's Crocker Land Expedition which lasted until 1916.[1] While on that expedition, he shot and killed Peeawahto, his Inuit guide, but was never prosecuted for his deed.[3] He was promoted to commander in March 1927.

He married Natalie Wheeler Elliot on November 27, 1916, in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Richard McCall Elliot, a business executive of Philadelphia. They had three children: Fitzhugh Green Jr., Elisabeth Farnum Green, who married Richard Hooker Wilmer; and Richard Elliot Green. The couple later divorced.[1] On November 15, 1933 he married Margery Durant Campbell Daniel. She was the daughter of the automobile manufacturer William Crapo Durant. She had been married threes times previously, first to Edwin R. Campbell, and then to Robert Williams Daniel and to John Hampton Cooper.

Green also served in the Navy during World War II.

In September 1947, Fitzhugh Green and Margery were arrested for possession of opiates along with a private detective, Clemens P. Deisler and they pleaded guilty.[2][4][5] He died on December 2, 1947, at the Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut.[1][2]

Green authored the novel ZR Wins (1924), about a dirigible flight to the North Pole in search of a lost colony of Vikings.[6]

Archive

His papers are archived at Georgetown University.

References
  1. "Fitzhugh Green". Georgetown University. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
  2. "Author - Explorer, Durant Son-in-Law, Was on Probation in Narcotics Case". The New York Times. December 3, 1947. Retrieved 2009-11-23. Comdr. Fitzhugh Green, Naval Reserve officer, Arctic explorer and author, who recently was placed on probation for five years for violation of the Federal Narcotics Act, died at 3 P.M. today in the Danbury Hospital.
  3. Kobalenko, Jerry (April 2010). Kobalenko, Jerry, Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island NPS Books, 2002. ISBN 9781926645179.
  4. "Green Enters Guilty Plea In Drug Case. Sentencing of Author As Well As Detective Set for October 24". Associated Press in Hartford Courant. October 7, 1947. Retrieved 2009-11-23. Fitzhugh Green of New Canaan, 59-years-old retired Navy commander who served in both world wars, noted author and explorer, today changed his plea to guilty to charges of receiving, concealing and purchasing narcotics.
  5. "Polar Explorer and Wife Named on Drug Charge. Woman a Daughter of Car Builder Durant". Chicago Tribune. September 27, 1947. Retrieved 2009-11-23. The daughter of a famous pioneer automobile manufacturer, her husband - a retired naval commander who served in two wars - and a private detective have been indicted here on charges involving narcotics.
  6. "Bibliography: ZR Wins". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
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