Name Fitzhugh Sr. | Role Writer | |
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Died December 2, 1947, Danbury Hospital Education George Washington University, United States Naval Academy Books ZR Wins, Dick Byrd - Air Explorer, Bob Bartlett - Master M, Peary: The Man who Refused t, "We" | ||
Fitzhugh Green, Sr. (August 16, 1888 – December 2, 1947) was an arctic explorer on the Crocker Land Expedition and a writer.
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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. While on that expedition, he shot and killed Peeawahto, his Inuit guide, but was never prosecuted for his deed. 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 and later divorced. 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 earlier, first to Edwin R. Campbell, and then to Robert Williams Daniel.
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. He died on December 2, 1947, at the Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut.
Green authored the novel ZR Wins (1924), about a dirigible flight to the North Pole in search of a lost colony of Vikings.
Archive
His papers are archived at Georgetown University.