Printed November 22, 2022
10 min learn
Alongside with powerful of the American and British public in the mid-19th century, Charles Francis Corridor used to be riveted by accounts of Sir John Franklin’s tragic 1845 expedition trying to win the Northwest Passage, the fabled Arctic sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The scale of the loss—two vessels and 129 males—and the thriller encompassing the fates of Franklin and his crew, ended in many expeditions that region out to verify the cease results of their story.
“Corridor used to be a deeply eccentric man, presumably the unlikeliest fellow to ever become an Arctic explorer,” said Russell A. Potter, a professor at Rhode Island College. Corridor had no more than a pair of years of education and lived a mute lifestyles as a household man and modestly successful engraver and publisher in Cincinnati, Ohio. But his hobby in Franklin’s doomed quest became into an obsession with the Arctic and a deepest mission to win survivors.
By the late 1850s various expeditions had learned bodies and relics from the Franklin crew, dimming hopes of finding any individual alive. Easy, in 1860, the 39-yr-former Corridor left Ohio for the Arctic to survey if there had been any lives left to construct.
