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Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (clergyman)
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (born in Utica, New York, 13 October 1804; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 June 1886) was an American clergyman. He was graduated at Harvard University, Harvard in 1825, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. In 1829 he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Dover, New Hampshire, and on 17 June 1834, took charge of the Brattle Street Church, Brattle Square Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1852. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1853. His society moved to a new building in 1873, but dissolved in 1876, when Lothrop resigned the pastorate. He was a member of the Boston School Committee for 30 years, and chairman of its committee on the English high school for 26. Among his literary works are a life of his grandfather, Samuel Kirkland, included in Jared Sparks' ''American Biography'', and a ''History of Brattle Square Church''. His grandmother was Jerusha Bingham Kirkla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1804-1886) (cropped)
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (July 6, 1892 – January 10, 1965) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in Central and South American Studies. His two-volume 1926 work ''Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua'' is regarded as a pioneering study. Lothrop was a longtime research associate of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and made many contributions based on fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and evaluations of private and public collections that focused on Central and South America. He is known for archaeological excavations in Argentina and Chile as well as investigations of the archaeological contexts for the stone spheres of Costa Rica. Lothrop is also known for his research on goldwork and other artifacts from Costa Rica, the Veraguas Province of Panama, and the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Mexico. Early life Lothrop was a descendant of his namesake, prominent Unitarianism, Unitarian minister Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (clergyman), Samuel Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |