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First Name
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Ephraim
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Additional Names
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George
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E. G. Squier
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Last Name
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Squier
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Born
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17 June 1821
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Died
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17 April 1888
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Parents
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Joel Squier - itinerant Methodist minister
Katherine Kilmer Squier
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Date Married
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1858
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Divorced, when she was having an affair, and later marriage, with Frank Leslie, in 1873
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Profession
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Archeologist
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Author
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Editor
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Publisher
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Diplomat
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Note
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Squier's work on Mound-Builder cultures were groundbreaking at the time, and among the first publications from the Smithsonian.
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Likely befriended Lucian Burleigh in the early 1840s when he lived in Hartford.
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Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh
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Miriam Follen Frank, his wife, was an extraordinarily busy and successful woman, who went through at least four husbands and likely many more affairs than that, but was also a suffragist who left her considerable fortune to the movement!
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Wikipedia article on Miriam Leslie
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Etching of E.G. Squier by Frances Carner. Original artist S.W. - Print in scrapbook owned by F Carner, originally Nelson W. Bell c. 1870, Public Domain.
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Wikimedia link to portrait
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His importance to this project surfaced in the discovery that Lucian Burleigh had gifted to Squier a copy of William H. Burleigh's "Our Country: A Desultory Poem" which Squier inscribed "From his friend, Lucian Burleigh" in the inside cover. This is in the collection of Jennifer Rycenga
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Our Country
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Associated Causes
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Further research needed
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Religious Affiliation
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Further research needed
New York - Central Upstate
Vermont
Connecticut - Western
Ohio
New York City
Great Britain
E. G. Squier