Jerome J Collins | |
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Born | Cork City, Ireland | October 17, 1841
Died | October 30, 1881 Lena Delta, Russia | (aged 40)
Resting place | Curraghkippane Cemetery, County Cork |
Nationality | Irish, American |
Occupation | Meteorologist, Irish republican activist, journalist, civil engineer, Arctic explorer |
Known for | Founding Clan na Gael in the US, death in Jeannette expedition |
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Jerome J. Collins (1841–1881) was an Irish-American journalist, meteorologist and civil engineer, who was the founder of the Irish republican organization Clan na Gael in the United States. With the support of the Meteorology Department of the New York Herald, he became a meteorologist and correspondent in the ill-fated Jeannette Arctic Expedition, in which he died.[1][2]