William Martin Beauchamp (March 1830-1925) was an American ethnologist and clergyman, born in Coldenham, Orange County, New York He graduated at the DeLaney Divinity School and from 1865 to 1900 was rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Baldwinsville, N. Y. From 1884 to 1912 he was examining chaplain for the diocese of New York. He made much valuable archæological research, particularly concerning the Iroquois Indians. He was detailed in 1889 by the United States Bureau of Ethnology to survey the Iroquois territory in New York and Canada and prepared a map indicating the location of all the known Indian sites in that region. An enlargement of this map was published in his Aboriginal Occupation of New York (1900). His other works are:
- The Iroquois Trail (1892)
- Indian Names in New York (1893)
- Shells of Onondaga County (1896)
- History of the New York Iroquois, now Commonly Called the Six Nations (1905)
- Aboriginal Use of Wood in New York (1905)
- Aboriginal Place Names of New York (1907)
- Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County (1908)
External links
- Biographical sketch, Minnesota State University-Mankato eMuseum
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
