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He wrote a book himself about his arctic exploration (A Negro Explorer at the North Pole) in 1912 and later in collaboration with Bradley Robinson his biography Dark Companion in 1947.
During their expeditions he and Peary fathered children with Inuit women two of whom were discovered by S. Allen Counter in a Greenland expedition when they were in their eighties.
On April 6, 1988 Henson was reinterred in Arlington National Cemetery near Peary's monument.
Matthew Henson is the great-grand nephew of Josiah Henson, a famous fugitive slave.
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