Drake, St. Clair, Jr. (02 January 1911–15 June 1990), anthropologist, was born John Gibbs St. Clair Drake, Jr., in Suffolk, Virginia, the son of John Gibbs St. Clair Drake, Sr., a Baptist pastor, and Bessie Lee Bowles. By the time Drake was four years old his father had moved the family twice, once to Harrisonburg, Virginia, and then to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
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Drake, St. Clair, Jr. (02 January 1911–15 June 1990), anthropologist
Frank A. Salamone
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Grinnell, George Bird (1849-1938), conservationist and ethnographer
John F. Reiger
Grinnell, George Bird (20 September 1849–11 April 1938), conservationist and ethnographer, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of George Blake Grinnell, a businessman, and Helen Alvord Lansing. Grinnell grew up in an upper-class home and lived in several locations in his earliest years: Brooklyn, lower Manhattan, and Weehawken, New Jersey. In 1857 the family moved to “Audubon Park,” the former estate of artist-naturalist ...
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George B. Grinnell. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-72116).
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La Farge, Oliver Hazard Perry (1901-1963), anthropologist, author, and advocate of American Indian reform and welfare
Robert A. Hecht
La Farge, Oliver Hazard Perry (19 December 1901–02 August 1963), anthropologist, author, and advocate of American Indian reform and welfare, was born in New York City, the son of Christopher Grant La Farge, an architect, and Florence Bayard Lockwood. A descendant and namesake of ...
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La Farge, Oliver Hazard Perry (1901-1963)
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Oliver La Farge Photograph by Louis Fabian Bachrach, 1930. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-116958).
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Weltfish, Gene (1902-1980), anthropologist and human rights advocate
Ruth E. Boetcker
Weltfish, Gene (07 August 1902–02 August 1980), anthropologist and human rights advocate, was born Regina Weltfish in New York City, the daughter of Abraham Weltfish, a lawyer involved in Tammany Hall politics, and Eve Furman. Weltfish spent the first ten years of her life with several other relatives in the apartment of her maternal grandparents. As the first grandchild of a successful Jewish immigrant couple, she was the focus of their attentions and hopes for much of her early life. Her grandfather hired a German governess to teach her German (her first language). Weltfish was bilingual as a child, switching from German to English with ease, acquiring French sometime later. Weltfish’s family moved to a home of their own when she was ten years old. Her father died unexpectedly three years later without leaving a will. Her mother, a business-college graduate, was unable to make enough money to support them. Weltfish started working as a clerical assistant when she was fourteen, but she continued her education by attending night school, graduating from high school in 1919....
