Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane

[2] The expedition was sponsored by the Chicago Museum of Natural History and staffed by a number of scientists and specialists.

It left Boston Harbor on November 16, 1928, stopped at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and then at the Panama Canal.

[3] On the expedition, Crane met Cathalene Isabella Parker Browning (1904–1987), step-daughter of the marine superintendent of the Panama Canal.

They married in 1929,[4] at which time he adopted his wife's daughter, Cathalene Parker Browning (1923–2005), from her previous marriage.

After the couple divorced in 1940, he disinherited his daughter (she later gave birth to American actor and comedian Chevy Chase),[5] and his ex-wife subsequently married the Austrian painter Rudolf Anton Bernatschke.