Background
Guernsey, Samuel James was born on May 15, 1868 in Dover, Maine, United States. Son of Edward H. and Hannah Morse (Thompson) Guernsey.
Guernsey, Samuel James was born on May 15, 1868 in Dover, Maine, United States. Son of Edward H. and Hannah Morse (Thompson) Guernsey.
Educated Foxcroft Academy, Eastern Maine Conference Seminary, Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and Cowles Art School, Boston: m. Drusilla East. Campbell, 1906.
In archæology, Peabody Museum, 1910-1914, assistant curator archæology and ethnology, 1914-1921, assistant director, 1921-1929, curator archæology, since 1929, instructor in anthropology, 1928-1929. Explorations in northeastern Arizona and Utah, 1914-1917, 1920-1923, northeastern Arizona, 1931.
Member Company F. 2d Maine Regiment, Spanish-American War.
Children: Isabel H., Edward East. Hemenway assistant.