BAHM, Archie John. Imlay, Michigan 21/22.8.1907 — Albuquerque, New Mexico 12.3.1996.U.S. Philosopher. Son of John Samuel Bahm and Lena Kohn. B.A. 1929 Albion College, Michigan. BothonWikipedia and Prabook explain that he was “Acting Chair of the University of New Mexico’s Department of Philosophy from 1954 to 1955 and again from…
ATKINS, Samuel De Coster. Madison, N.J. 25.10.1910 — Pomona, Calif. 20.3.2002. U.S. Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor at Princeton University. Studies at Princeton: A.B. 1931, A.M. 1932, Ph.D. 1935. In 1935-37 Assistant at Baylor, then at Princeton: Instructor in Classics and Sanskrit 1937-41, Assistant Professor of Classics and Sanskrit 1941-48…
WARD, Susan R. (formerly Benjamin, née Stone). Belcherton, MA 5.2.1822 — Calcutta 27.4.1884. American Baptist Missionary in Assam. Married 1848 Rev. Judson Benjamin (1819–1855) and came with him to Burma. They had three children, two died young After several years as widow she married 1860 Rev. William Ward (d. 1873),…
SWANSON, Donald Carl Eugene. St.Paul, Minnesota 18.11.1914 — 12.4.1976. U.S. Linguist. Studies at University of Minnesota (B.A. 1936, M.A. 1939, in Classics). M.A. and Ph.D. 1941 Princeton University. After one year as Instructor of Classics at University of Colorado worked for U.S. Navy and U.S. Armed Forces Language Unit, 1943-45…
SMITH, Maria Wilkins. Philadelphia, PA 21.6.1884 — 29.12.1973. U.S. Linguist. Daughter of William Horner Smith (1853–1889) and Henrietta Constantia Wilkins (1856–1933). Apparently the same M. W. Smith who studied at Bryn Mawr (1906) and passed Ph.D. 1929 at University of Pennsylvania (under Kent). She was Instructor, then Assistant Professor of Latin…
SAPIR, Edward (born Eduard Sapir). Lauenburg, Pomerania (now Lębork, Poland) 26.1.1884 — New Haven 4.2.1939. U.S. Linguist and Anthropologist. Born in an unorthodox Lithuanian Jewish family, which emigrated first 1888 to Liverpool and then in 1890 to the U.S.A., son of Jakob David Sapir, a cantor, and Eva Seagal. Grew…
RUNKLE, Catharine Bird. 7.2.1863 — 24.12.1943. U.S. Student of Sanskrit. Daughter of John Daniel Runkle and Catharine Robbins. Studied from 1886 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under Lanman. In 1922 living in Richmond, MA, unmarried. Buried (and possibly died) in Dorchester, co. Suffolk, Mass. Publications: With J.…
PRATT, James Bissett. Elmira, NY 22.6.1875 — Williamstown, MA 15.1.1944.U.S. Philosopher and Scholar of Religion. The only child of banker Daniel Ransom Pratt and Katharine Graham Murdoch. Graduated 1893 from Elmira Free Academy and 1898 from Williams College. Studies at Harvard (M.A. 1899) and Berlin. Ph.D. 1905 Harvard under W.…
PHILLIPS, Jeremiah. Plainfield, NY 5.1.1812 — Hillsdale, Mich. 9.12.1879. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Parley Phillips and Hannah Crumb, both died in 1835. Graduated from Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution (future Colgate University). In 1835 ordained priest and missionary. Arrived at Calcutta in 1836 and was stationed…
PHILLIPS, James Liddell. Balasore, Orissa 1840 — Mussoorie 25.6.1895. U.S. Medical Missionary. Son of —> Jeremiah Phillips (1812–1879) and Mary Ann Grimsditch (d. 1840). Born in India, educated in the U.S.A. (at Whitestown Seminary, N.Y.). Graduated 1860 from Bowdoin College, worked as pastor in New York and studied medicine for…