On March 23, 1909, former President Theodore Roosevelt led an expedition to Africa intent on collecting specimens for a new Natural History Museum. Among the core members of the group outfitted by The Smithsonian Institution was Owego, New York native John Alden Loring.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBkySBcuwNM‘Uniquely New York’
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