Charles Pickering Bowditch
American archaeologist and businessman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Pickering Bowditch was an American financier, archaeologist, cryptographer and linguistics scholar who specialized in Mayan epigraphy. Bowditch was born in Boston into the Massachusetts Bowditch family of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch, his grandfather, and physiologist Henry Pickering Bowditch, his brother, son of Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch and Lucy Orme Nichols. He received his undergraduate degree in 1863 and his master's in 1866, both from Harvard University. During the American Civil War he served as an officer in the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a colored regiment, rising to the rank of captain, and then served as a captain in the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, also a colored regiment. In 1866, he married Cornelia L. Rockwell who bore him four children who survived him. He died in 1921 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and was buried with a Unitarian service.
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- Decipherment of the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Central America. By John Campbell (1900) (1)
- Report of the Committee on American Archaeology (1905) (1)
- MEMORIAL TO JOSIAH ROYCE (1918) (1)
- Notes on the Report of Teobert Maler (1902) (1)
- Nachlass [Korrespondenz]: Absender: Bowditch, Charles P. (Peabody Museum) (0)
- Report of the Committee on American Archaeology (1906) (0)
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