Background
Beauchamp was born in Coldenham, Orange County, New New York
Beauchamp was born in Coldenham, Orange County, New New York
He graduated from the DeLancey Divinity School, and received Doctor of Sacred Theology (Doctor of Sacred Theology Sacrae Theologiae Doctor) in 1886 for Hobart College.
He published several works on the archeology and ethnology of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in New New York He received his education at Skaneateles Academy until 1845. 1884-1910 was archaeologist of New York State Museum.
In addition, he made valuable archæological contributions from his independent research, particularly concerning the Iroquois Indians.
In 1889 the United States Bureau of Ethnology commissioned him to survey the Iroquois territory in New York and Canada, and to prepare a map indicating the location of all the known Indian sites in that region. An enlargement of this map was published in Beauchamp"s Aboriginal Occupation of New York (1900).
His other works are:
The Iroquois Trail (1892)
Indian Names in New York (1893)
Shells of Onondaga County (1896)
History of the New York Iroquois, now Commonly Called the Six Nations (1905)
Aboriginal Use of Wood in New York (1905)
Aboriginal Place Names of New York (1907)
Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County (1908)
Iroquois Folk Lore, Gathered From the Six Nations of New York (1922)
American Folklore Society
Onondaga Historical Association (1909-1910)
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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