Background
Lewis, Albert Buell was born on June 21, 1867 in Clifton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Boughton and Anna (McKeehan) Lewis.
Lewis, Albert Buell was born on June 21, 1867 in Clifton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Boughton and Anna (McKeehan) Lewis.
Student of University of Wooster, O., 1890-1893. University of Chicago, 1894-1897, Bachelor of Arts, 1894. Columbia, 1902-1906, Doctor of Philosophy, 1906.
1 son, Edgar Bennett. Assistant in biology, summer, 1894, histology, 1895, bacteriology, 1896, University of Chicago. Fellow, 1897-1899, instructor, 1899-1902, University of Nebraska.
Assistant, 1907-1908, assistant curator of Melanesian ethnology, 1908-1936, curator, since 1937, Field Museum, Chicago.
Head of Joseph North. Field South Pacific Expedition, 1909-1913, which visited in interest of anthropological department of Field Museum, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, New Guinea and Dutch Indies.
Married Gertrude Louise Clayton, December 23, 1915.