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(1818-1881) Anthropologist, writer, Father of American anthropology. Lewis H. Morgan was born near Cayuga Lake. He was an adopted member of the Seneca Tribe. He collected and published under the name of Skenandoah, his adopted Seneca name; he lived in Cattaraugus County. He collected not only stories of the Iroquois but artifacts as well. He hired Ely S. Parker, a young teenager at the time, to work for him as a researcher and translator in order to write and publish, “League of the Iroquois” in 1851.
Full Name
Lewis Henry Morgan
Locations
Cattaraugus
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