HILLER, Hiram Milliken, Jr. near Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri 8.3.1867 — Bellefonte, PA 8.8.1921. U.S. Physician, Explorer, and Ethnographer. Son of Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller, Sr. (1834–1895) and Sarah Fulton Bell. Graduated B.S. 1887 from Parsons College, Iowa. Studied at the medical school of University of Pennsylvania (graduated 1891), met there W. H. Furness, III and Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. In 1893-94 travelled in Europe, then further studies at Harvard. Together with Furness and Harrison he made in 1895-1903 four long expeditions to various parts of South, South-East (esp. Borneo) and East Asia (Japan) collecting ethnographic and biological material (and photos). Back in the U.S.A. Holler founded a clinic for poor workers in Media, PA. Married Blanche Hays (1872–1944), two daughters.
Publications: With W. H. Furness, III: Notes of a Trip to the Veddahs of Ceylon. 48 p. London 1902.
Sources: Wikipedia.
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