# Biography and bibliography of Jesse Walter Fewkes

Author: Nichols, Frances S. (Frances Sellman), 1869-1967 [Compiler]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70029

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## Summary

Jesse Walter Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is the son of Jesse and Susan Emeline (Jewett) Fewkes. He was born in Newton, Mass., November 14, 1850. His father and mother were born in Ipswich, Mass. On his mother’s side his American ancestry goes back to the close of the seventeenth century. He fitted for college in 1871 and entered without conditions. He was graduated from Harvard with honor in Natural History in the class of 1875 and was elected in the society of Phi Beta Kappa. When a student in the Agassiz School, at Penikese Island, Buzzards Bay, in 1873, he came under the inspiring influence of the great naturalist, Louis Agassiz. After graduation he took a post-g...

## Chapters

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