Captain Cook Memorial Museum Captain Cook Memorial Museum Captain Cook Memorial Museum is a history museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The museum building, Walker’s House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746. Having lodged there as an apprentice, Cook returned to visit in the winter of 1771–72 after his first voyage. The house is situated in Grape Lane on the harbour side. A plaque on the wall states that the house was built in 1688 by Moses and Susannah Dring. It is a largish building on three floors with an attic. It is regarded as a typical
Valentine Seaman Valentine Seaman Valentine Seaman (April 2, 1770 - July 3, 1817) was an American physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States and mapped yellow fever in New York City. His contributions to public health also include women's education in nursing and midwifery. Seaman was born in 1770 in New York. His family were Quakers. His father, Willet Seaman, was a descendant of Captain John Seaman, who sailed to North America from Brightlington, England, in 1620, settling thereafter in Hempstead, Long Island. Seaman began his studies in medicine in New York under Nicholas Romayne, one of the founders