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A.N. Marquis Co.. "George Amos Dorsey." Who Was Who in America: A Companion to Who's Who in America, 1 Chicago: A. N. Marquis (1943): 333.

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Marquis Co. notes are an invaluable tool when working on the Twentieth Century. The information comes from the listee, preserving a verbal self-portrait.

We included this entry as part of W. I. Thomas's biography. Dorsey as a close associate of Thomas's at the University of Chicago, a friendship that lasted for decades. Prior to his divorce, Dorsey's mistress Della Rains, was the sister of Mrs. Pearl Granger, the woman with whom Thomas was arrested in 1918.

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George Amos Dorsey

A. N. Marquis Co.

Dorsey, George Amos, anthropologist, journalist; b. Hebron, O., Feb. 6, 1868.; s. Edwin Jackson and Mary Emma (Grove) D.; A.B., Denison, 1888, LL.D. 1909; A.B. Harvard, 1890, PhD, 1894; m. Ida Chadsey; m. 2d, Sue McLellan. Conducted anthrop. investigations in S. America for Chicago Expdn., 1891-92; supt. archaeology, dept. anthropology, same, 1892-93; asst. in anthropology, 1894-95, instr., 1985-96, Harvard; asst. curator anthropology, 1896-98, curator, 1898-1915, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; prof., comparative anatomy, Northwestern U. Dental Sch., 1898-1913; asst. prof. anthropology, 1905-08, asso. prof., anthropology, 1908-1915, U of Chicago; Editor writer for Dem. Nat. Com., 1916. Lecturer on anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1925.— Visited Europe, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Java, Australia, Bismarck Arch., New Guinea, P.I., China and Japan for Field Mus., 1908. mem. edit. staff and fgn. commr. Chicago Tribune, 1909-1912, investigating sources of emigration in Italy, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Servia and Bulgaria, and studying political conditions in India, China, Japan, Australia and South Africa. US. del. Internat. Congress Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology, Paris, 1900; mem. Jury Awards, Dept Anthropology, St. Louis Expn, 1904; Commd. lt. U.S.N.R.F., Mar. 1918; lt comdr., Sept. 1919; asst naval attaché, Madrid, 1918; lt comdr., Sept 1919; naval attaché, Lisbon, 1919-1921; advisor on Spanish problems to Am. Commn. to Negotiate Peace, Paris. Comdr. mil orders of Avis and Santiago. Author: Young Low (novel) 1917, 27; Why We Behave like Human Beings, 1925; The Nature of Man, 1927; The Evolution of Charles Darwin, 1927; Hows and Whys of Human Behavior, 1929. Home: New York, N.Y. Died Mar 29, 1931.

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