Background
Thoburn, Joseph Bradfield was born on August 8, 1866 in Bellaire, Ohio, United States. Son of Major Thomas Crawford and Mary Eleanor (Crozer) Thoburn.
Thoburn, Joseph Bradfield was born on August 8, 1866 in Bellaire, Ohio, United States. Son of Major Thomas Crawford and Mary Eleanor (Crozer) Thoburn.
Parents migrated to Kansas frontier, 1871. Bachelor of Science, Kansas State College, 1893. Doctor of Literature, University of Oklahoma City, 1931.
Moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1899. Secretary Oklahoma Territory Board of Agriculture, 1902-1905. Directorate Oklahoma History Society, 1903-1917, research assistant, 1917-1919, secretary, 1919-1926, curator and research director, 1926-1931, member directorate, 1932-1937, curator, 1938.
Newspaper writer until 1907.
Instructor in history, University of Oklahoma, 1913-1917. From 1907 he devoted attention mainly to research and writing along lines of local and Midland history.
Extensive archæol. investigations in Oklahoma, including systematic excavation of mounds, burial grounds, cavedwellings, et cetera Secured proof that numerous “natural mounds,” so called, west of Mississippi River and south of Missouri River were of Caddoan domiciliary origin.
Mason.
Married Rachel Caroline Conwell, June 6, 1894 (died 1931). Children: Mary Eleanor, Jeanne Isabel (Mistress A. V. Wyss).