biography
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Bowditch, Charles P(ickering)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1842–1921)
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| biography:
| Businessman and archaeologist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard and became president of Pepperell Manufacturing Co and Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co while pursuing a career as an amateur archaeologist. After 1891 he planned and financed annual Peabody Museum expeditions to Central America, and in 1910 produced a groundbreaking study of Maya hieroglyphics. |
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