William Martin Beauchamp
William Martin Beauchamp (March 1830–1925) was an American ethnologist and Episcopal clergyman. He published several works on the archeology and ethnology of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in New York.
[edit] Early life and education
Beauchamp was born in Coldenham, Orange County, New York He graduated from the DeLaney Divinity School.
[edit] Career
From 1865 to 1900, Beauchamp was rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Baldwinsville, N. Y. From 1884 to 1912 he was examining chaplain for the diocese of New York.
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)
[edit] External links
- "William Martin Beauchamp", Minnesota State University-Mankato eMuseum
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
