Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Background

Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland was born on July 6, 1892 in Milton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Sturgis Hooper and Alice (Bacon) Lothrop.

Education

Preparatory education, Groton (Massachusetts) School. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1915, Doctor of Philosophy, 1921.

Career

Field work and exploration for Andover Museum, at Pecos, New Mexico, 1915. Foreign Harvard University, in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Honduras, 1915-1917, Panama, 1933, 1940, 51. Costa Rica, 1948, 49.

Foreign Carnegie Institute in Guatemala, Yucatan, 1923.

Guatemala, 1932-1933. Foreign Museum of American Indian, Heye Foundation, at Ketchipaun, New Mexico, and Central America, 1924.

In Tierra del Fuego, Parana River, Argentina, Peru, 1924-1925, Central America, 1926, Guatemala, 1928, Chile. 1929; in Peru for Institute of Andean Research, 1941-1944.

Retired curator Andean Archeological, Peabody Museum.

Achievements

• Samuel Kirkland Lothrop has been listed as a noteworthy anthropologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant, Military Intelligence Department, United States Army, World War I. Clubs: Union Boat (Boston, Massachusetts).

Connections

Married Rachel Warren, 1914. Married second, Eleanor Bachman, 1929. Children: Samuel K., Joan, John Warren.

Father:

William Sturgis Hooper Lothrop

Mother:

Alice (Bacon) Lothrop

Spouse:

second

Spouse:

Rachel Warren

child:

Samuel K. Lothrop

child:

Joan Lothrop

child:

John Warren Lothrop