| A physician and topographer and member of a family with three sons, including himself, who accompanied western frontier expeditions, Benjamin Kern was from Philadelphia. At the persuasion of his brother, Edward, he joined the fourth expedition of John C. Fremont, in an attempt to cross the southern Rocky Mountains to map a railway route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that could be used year round. However, the results were disastrous, with eleven men dying in the snows of the (showing 500 of 1089 characters). |
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