Gordon, Arthur Ernest (07 October 1902–11 May 1989), Latin epigraphist, was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the son of Arthur Ernest Gordon, a storekeeper, and Susan Esther Porter. Growing up in modest circumstances, Gordon attended Dartmouth College (1919–1923) and, on the receipt of an A.B. in Latin, was sent on a Dartmouth fellowship to the American Academy in Rome (1923–1925). In 1924 he married Maddalena Belloni, with whom he had one child....
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Morley, Sylvanus Griswold (07 June 1883–02 September 1948), Maya archaeologist and epigrapher, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Colonel Benjamin Franklin Morley, a professor of chemistry, and Sarah Eleanor Constance de Lannoy. When Morley was ten years old, the family moved to Buena Vista, Colorado, where he began to express serious interest in archaeology. He nevertheless attended the Pennsylvania Military College and received a degree in civil engineering in 1904, a year after his father’s death; he then immediately enrolled at Harvard University to study archaeology. Under the tutelage of ...
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Turner, Lorenzo Dow (21 August 1890–10 February 1972), linguist
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Turner, Lorenzo Dow (21 August 1890–10 February 1972), linguist, was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to Rooks Turner, a schoolteacher and principal, and Elizabeth Sessoms Freeman. The Turner family traced its origins to an early nineteenth-century liaison between Jacob Brady, an African descended enslaved person, and Sally Rooks, whose ancestors were Scotch-Irish. Rooks Turner received his primary education at a school for African American children when he was in his early twenties. From there he proceeded to the preparatory division and then undergraduate studies at Howard University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in ...
