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Tom Longboat
Olympic athlete
1887 – 1949
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Who was Tom Longboat?
Cogwagee was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario, and for much of his career the dominant long distance runner of the time. When he was a child, a Mohawk resident of the reserve, Bill Davis, who in 1901 finished second in the Boston Marathon, interested him in running races.
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- Born
- Jun 4, 1887
Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation - Nationality
- Canada
- Lived in
- Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation
- Died
- Jan 9, 1949
Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation
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on July 23, 2013
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