Jones, William, 1871-1909

found: Mesquakie (Fox) material culture : the William Jones and Frederick Starr collections, 1998:p. 4 (William Jones; first academically trained Native American anthropologist; b. of Welsh, England, and Mesquakie descent in 1871; attended Phillips Exeter Academy; Columbia Univ., 1901; Ph. D. in anthropology 1901 with dissertation entitled Some problems in Algonkin word formation; field work in Phillipines where he was killed by the Ilongot in Mar. 1909)

found: Rideout, Henry Milner. William Jones, Indian, cowboy, American scholar, and anthropologist in the field, 1912:p. 7 (William Jones; b. Mar. 28, 1871, on the Sauk and Fox Reservation, in what was then Indian Territory) p. 10 (William Jones, name on government rolls; Indian names: Wee lee; Megasiáwa; Black Eagle) p. 202 (d. Mar. 29, 1909)