William Martin Beauchamp

Beauchamp circa 1900

William Martin Beauchamp (March 25, 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.

Early life and education

Beauchamp was born in Coldenham, Orange County, New York. He received his education at Skaneateles Academy until 1845. He graduated from the DeLancey Divinity School,^[1] and received Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D. Sacrae Theologiae Doctor) in 1886 for Hobart College. He married Sarah Carter of Ravenna, Ohio in November, 1857, and resided in Syracuse, New York^[2]

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. 1884-1910 was archaeologist of New York State Museum.^[3]

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)
• Iroquois Folk Lore, Gathered From the Six Nations of New York (1922)

Member of Organizations

• American Folklore Society
• Onondaga Historical Association (1909-1910)
• A.A.A.S.

References

1. "William M. Beauchamp Papers, 1840-1944 (finding aid)". New York State Library Website. New York State Library. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
2. The International Who's Who Pub. Co., 1911. p. 103.
3. The International Who's Who Pub. Co., 1911. p. 103.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

Media related to William Martin Beauchamp at Wikimedia Commons

• Works by or about William Martin Beauchamp at Internet Archive
• "William Martin Beauchamp", Minnesota State University-Mankato eMuseum