William Churchill
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1859 – 1920
Who was William Churchill?
William Churchill F.R.A.I., AIA, AAG was an American Polynesian ethnologist and philologist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Yale, where he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. In 1896 he became Consul General to Samoa. In 1897 his commission was extended, making him also Consul General to Tonga. In 1902 he began working for New York Sun, where he later became a member of the editorial staff. In 1915, he took a position as research associate in primitive philology at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.
While working for the Committee on Public Information during World War I, he suffered a skull fracture inflicted by an enemy spy.
Churchill was author of:
A Princess of Fiji
The Polynesian Wanderings, Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an Examination of the Proto-Samoan Content of Efaté and other Languages of Melanesia
Beach-la-Mar, the Jargon or Trade Speech of the Western Pacific
Easter Island, Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia
The Subanu, Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao
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