Henry Field (1902 - 1986)

Born 15 Dec 1902 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Sturges) Alexander — married 19 Jan 1929 (to 10 Apr 1937) in Cook, Illinois, United States

Husband of Laura Placidia (White) Carter — married Jun 1938 (to 1953) in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Died 4 Jan 1986 at age 83 in Miami, Dade, Florida, United States

Biography

Henry Field is Notable.

Henry Field's name was changed as a child from Henry Field Gibson to Henry Field. A biographical sketch from the web site of Minnesota State University, Mankato at http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/field_henry.html follows:

Henry Field

1902-1986

Henry Field was born on December 15, 1902. He started his archaeology education in England at Oxford University, graduating in 1925. After graduating from college, he worked as an assistant curator of Physical Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History. He held the position of assistant curator for a few years, and he later became the head Curator from 1934 until 1941. During the period when he was Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, he participated in many of the Near East expeditions that the museum made.

In 1941, his position of Curator ended. Henry Field accepted an invitation to work for President Franklin D. Roosevelt as an anthropologist and as his personal assistant. In accepting this position, Field became a member of the Special Intelligence Unit of the White House. He was also the director of the project, a study of world population, migration and settlement. The data provided was used for shaping post-war re-location strategies.

Throughout Henry Field career, he participated in archaeological expeditions in Africa, Europe, Mongolia, and southwestern Asia. He led expeditions into Europe, the North Arabian Desert, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the University of California African Expedition which took place from 1947-1948, and also a member of the Peabody Museum Harvard Expedition to the Near East and Pakistan.

Henry Field received many honors and awards during his career as an Anthropologist. He was a research fellow in the physical anthropology department at Harvard from 1950-1969 and was also an honorary member of the Glasgow Archaeological Society. He also joined several foreign scientific societies and organizations in the United States and many other countries.

In 1966, Field joined the University of Miami faculty where he wrote and published a number of anthropological studies through his Research Reports The collection of Henry Field Papers included the page proofs of the project for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. That included six hundred and sixty-sixty studies from the project as well as the history behind the project.

In his lifetime, Field published many papers and wrote for many journals. Some of his publications include: The Anthropology of Iraq and Bibliographies on South West Asia I-VIII, Contributions to the Anthropology of the Caucasus, The Track of Man, Mongolia Today and many more. Henry Field contributed much to the study of anthropology during his lifetime through many articles, books and journals. Henry Field died in 1986 in Miami, Florida. ^[1]

Henry was married three times:

1. Elizabeth Sturges - divorced
2. Placidia White, with whom he had two daughters, Julianna and Marianna - divorced in 1953
3. Julia Rand Allen - as noted in is obituary and his Wikipedia article notes: "His third wife, Julia Allen Field was a lion trainer, zoo director, and environmental planner in Columbia. "

Sources

1. ↑ [1] - Man, Volume 62 June 1962 #88, written by Kari Gates

Profile in Wikipedia

Ancestry.com, including

• 1911 Braeside, Farningham, Dartford England Census - Henry is 8 years old, boarding in the household of Thomas Frederick Hugh Smith (his mother is living in Baggrave Hall with her new husband)
• 1930 Chicago, Cook, Illinois US Census - married to Sturges - occupation: anthropologist
• 1940 Chicago, Cook, Illinois US Census - married to White with three children (two of hers and one of theirs) - occupation: curator
• 1950 Washington, Washington, District of Columbia US Census - married to White with a daughter - occupation: Archeologist/Harvard University

Find A Grave: Memorial #192577889 - First Parish Cemetery in York Village, York County, Maine

Acknowledgment: Field-363 was created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011.