Edwin Atlee Barber (August 13, 1851 – December 12, 1916) was an American
archaeologist and author.
Biography
Edwin Atlee Barber was born in
Baltimore, Maryland to William Edwin Barber and Anne Eliza Townsend. He entered
Lafayette College in 1869 but left before graduating to assume a position as an assistant naturalist for the
Hayden Survey. He developed an interest in decorated pottery and rapidly became an authority in
Pueblo ceramic art. He contributed several articles to the American Naturalist about his work with the Hayden Survey. He returned to Lafayette College and graduated in 1877. In 1881, Barber was elected as a member to the
American Philosophical Society.[1]
Hough, Walter. "Barber, Edwin Atlee." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928.
Men and Women of America; A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. (p. 90) New York City: L.R. Hamersly & Company, 1910.
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