Background
Wissler, Clark was born on September 18, 1870 in Wayne County, Indiana, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Sylvania (Needler) Wissler.
Wissler, Clark was born on September 18, 1870 in Wayne County, Indiana, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Sylvania (Needler) Wissler.
Bachelor of Arts, Indiana U., 1897, A.M., 1899. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1901. Doctor of Laws from Indiana University, 1929.
Instructor education, New York University, 1901-1902. Assistant in anthropology, 1903-1905. Lecturer, 1905-1909, Columbia.
Assistant in anthropology, 1903-1906, curator, 1906-1941, American Museum Natural History. Professor anthropology, Yale, 1924-1940. Division chairman National Research Council, 1920-1921.
Consulting anthropologist Bishop Museum, Honolulu since 1920.
Fellow New York Academy Sciences, American Ethnological Society, American Geography Society. Member National Academy Sciences, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Etta Viola Gebhart, June 14, 1899. Children: Stanley Gebhart, Mary Viola.