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William Churchill, the son of William and Sarah Jane (Starkweather) Churchill, was born in New York City, New York, United States.
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Excerpt from Easter Island: The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia It may not be the purpose of this work to study all of these prob lems - that is beyond our power. Of the most of these mysteries we may venture no further than to state the existence. Restricted by the nature of the material with which we are to deal and conditioned by the character of our particular research into the mystery of the Polynesian race, we shall find sufficient to engage our attention in the statement of but one of these problems and in massing such proof as we may direct upon its settlement. Yet it will be proper to set forth the other and older problems in some such order as in a general way comports with the order in which they have come to European atten tion. This is all the more meet since the problem to which this volume is addressed is newly discovered; its first presentation was made as incidental to those studies of the most remote Pacific area which were the theme of The Polynesian Wanderings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Beach-La-Mar: The Jargon or Trade Speech of the Western Pacific French source, for if the Astoria trappers were users of English the rangers of the Hudson's Bay Company were preponderantly French or Breeds. As showing that the importance of jargon study was early recognized, we may note in passing that among the earliest of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution in its youth was the Gibbs dictionary of Chinook. Our next example in chronological order is the Beach la-mar jargon of the southern and western Pacific islands with a certain extension to the nearest littoral of Australia. It 15 this which rs to engage our attention in this study and may therefore be postponed in this summary schedule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Churchill, the son of William and Sarah Jane (Starkweather) Churchill, was born in New York City, New York, United States.
William received all the advantages of early education and entered Yale College with the class of 1881. Owing to ill health, he was obliged to leave in the middle of his sophomore year, but, after a voyage to England on a sailing vessel, he returned and finished his course with the class of 1882.
About 1882 Churchill started to teach school in Indianapolis, and after one year then went on a trip to Australia and the South Sea Islands. On his return, he was for two years librarian of the Academy of Sciences at San Francisco. He next held a position in the Signal Service Bureau in Washington, D. C. , and in 1891 he became an editor of the Brooklyn Daily Tintes.
A way opened for him as a philologist and ethnologist when he was appointed United States consul-general to Samoa (1896 - 1899). Here in the house where Robert Louis Stevenson died he engaged in the fascinating study of Polynesian languages, a prerequisite in ascertaining the natives’ point of view. The amount of data collected by him in these few years is beyond calculation, and formed the basis of his scientific work. Back in the United States at the beginning of the century, he began a new line of duties as a department editor of the New York Sun (1902 - 1915), then a giant in the newspaper field. In the coterie of brilliant men summoned by Dana, Churchill as a writer of trenchant and pure English was a well-known member.
In spite of the exacting work on the Sun, his philological studies were continued and his house in Brooklyn became a transplanted bit of Samoa containing an outstanding library of works on Polynesia. He brought out the results of his years of study in Polynesian Wanderings (1910), in which Polynesian migrations were traced ingeniously by loan words among the Melanesian. Not only was the first application of this method fruitful of results, but as a by-product it was ascertained that Polynesian is a language in process of formation. Polynesian Wanderings was followed by Beach-la-Mar (T911), a study of the trade speech of the Western Pacific, and this by Easier Island, Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia (1912).
In 1915 he became an associate in primitive philology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. The Great War summoned him to government work in which a knowledge of various languages was requisite, and he performed an exacting bit of war service as director of the division of foreign language publications of the Committee on Public Information. Many other papers and monographs on ethnological and philological topics also came as the result of Churchill’s assiduous labors. His conclusions are especially valuable since it is likely that it will be long before any one with Churchill’s groundwork will attempt the problem of the most widespread migration ever known, that of the Polynesian to the islands in the west Pacific.
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On August 14, 1899, Churchill was married to Llevella Pierce.
