William Lincoln Bakewell

William Lincoln Bakewell (November 26, 1888 – May 21, 1969) was the only American aboard the Endurance during the 1914 to 1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with Sir Ernest Shackleton.

William Bakewell joined the Endurance crew in Buenos Aires, Argentina along with friend Perce Blackborow.

[1] Bakewell was born on November 26, 1888, in Joliet, Illinois.

During World War II he worked at the Diesel Electric Plant in La Grange, Illinois.

He was buried in Emanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery in Skandia, Michigan.

William Lincoln Bakewell circa 1917