Dr. Haviland Scudder Mekeel

1902 - 1947  (45 years)

• Name	Haviland Scudder Mekeel
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	30 Apr 1902	St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Jul 1947
  Person ID	I25086	Scudder
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2008

  
  

  Father	Isaac A. Mekeel,   b. 25 Sep 1870, Clinton, Iowa d. Bef 1925 (Age < 54 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Schureman,   b. 3 Mar 1873, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri d. Aft 1930 (Age > 58 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1896
  Family ID	F8766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Velma B.,   b. 28 Feb 1905, Dorchester, Massachusetts d. 27 Dec 1993, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin (Age 88 years)
  Children	1. J.H. Mekeel
  Family ID	F8765	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Haviland was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. He studied at Harvard University (B.A., 1928), the University of Chicago (M.A., 1929), and Yale University (Ph.D., 1932). In 1929, he was a member of the Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe) ethnological field school session led by Alfred L. Kroeber. In 1929-1932, he carried out three field expeditions to the Dakota Indians of North Dakota, working mainly on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 1935, he joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs as Director of Applied Anthropology under Commissioner John Collier. In 1937, he was appointed Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe and continued there until 1940, when he accepted the teaching position at the University of Wisconsin.