Jerome J. Collins

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Jerome J Collins
Personal details
Born(1841-10-17)October 17, 1841
Cork City, Ireland
DiedOctober 30, 1881(1881-10-30) (aged 40)
Lena Delta, Russia
Resting placeCurraghkippane Cemetery, County Cork
OccupationMeteorologist, Irish republican activist, journalist, civil engineer, Arctic explorer
Known forFounding 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.

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