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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Squier, Ephraim George 1821-1888 (search)
Squier, Ephraim George 1821-1888 Historian; born in Bethlehem, N. Y., June 17, 1821; engaged in journalism and civil engineering. From 1845 to 1848 he edited the Scioto gazette at Chillicothe, O., and became familiar with the ancient mounds in the Scioto Valley. In conjunction with Dr. Edward H. Davis, of Ohio, he began a systematic investigation of the aboriginal monuments of the Mississippi Valley, the results of which were published in the first volume of the Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Thenceforth his life was devoted to researches into the archaeology and ethnology of the ancient races of the American continent. In 1848 he was appointed charge d'affaires to the republics of Central America, where he made special efforts towards securing the construction of an interoceanic railway, and afterwards published several works concerning those countries. He was United States commissioner to Peru in 1863-64, and in 1871 became the first president of the Anthropologic