Gunnar Kaasen
Deceased Person
1882 – 1960
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Who was Gunnar Kaasen?
Gunnar Kaasen was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from an epidemic.
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- Born
- Mar 11, 1882
Burfjord - Ethnicity
- Norwegian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Alaska
- Died
- Nov 27, 1960
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on July 23, 2013
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