James Ellsworth

James Ellsworth (Hudson, Ohio, October 13, 1849 – June 2, 1925 at Villa Palmieri in Florence, Italy) was an American coal mine owner and banker.

The Ellsworth family

He married Eva Frances Butler on November 4, 1874. He had one son, Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951), who was born in Chicago. Lincoln later made contributions to aviation in the Arctic and Antarctica, flying across the continent of Antarctica with Herbert Hollick-Kenyon in 1935. James Ellsworth was vitally interested in polar exploration and donated vast sums of money to Roald Amundsen's expedition to the North Pole in 1925, in which Lincoln was a pilot. He also had a daughter named Clare.

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Eva Frances Butler - Lincoln Ellsworth - Chicago - Arctic - Antarctica - Herbert Hollick-Kenyon - James Ellsworth - Roald Amundsen - North Pole

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