Dr. Oliver Garrison Ricketson, Jr., an archaeologist and anthropologist, died in the Bar Harbor Hospital . He was widely known for his anthropological studies among the Navajo Indians of the southwest and for his archaeological research of the Mayan ruins of Central America.
His mother was a niece of the steel magnet Andrew Carnegie. He graduated in 1916 from Harvard college, which awarded him a masters' degree in 1924 and a Doctorate of philosophy in 1933.
During WWI he served as a machinist's mate 2d class aboard a Naval Reserve Patrol Craft "Scooter" . off the New England coast. He had a short marriage (1917) in Philadelphia to Bertha Phillips Chase, and they were in the Cambridge, MA city directory (1918). He was released from active duty September 3, 1917 .Harvard Naval Unit. He spent most of the next three decades on Mayan Indian research in Central America.
Dr. Ricketson was survived by his third wife the former Anna Howard Riggs of Catonsville, Maryland, a son, Oliver Garrison III, of Golden, Colorado, two daughters, Mary Bayles Ricketson
(later Bullard) of Cambridge Mass and Mrs. Howard B. Sprague, Jr. Of Pride's Crossing; and a sister, Mrs. Robert W. Ferguson of Cumberland Island, GA
Contributor: Ed White (49189816) •
His mother was a niece of the steel magnet Andrew Carnegie. He graduated in 1916 from Harvard college, which awarded him a masters' degree in 1924 and a Doctorate of philosophy in 1933.
During WWI he served as a machinist's mate 2d class aboard a Naval Reserve Patrol Craft "Scooter" . off the New England coast. He had a short marriage (1917) in Philadelphia to Bertha Phillips Chase, and they were in the Cambridge, MA city directory (1918). He was released from active duty September 3, 1917 .Harvard Naval Unit. He spent most of the next three decades on Mayan Indian research in Central America.
Dr. Ricketson was survived by his third wife the former Anna Howard Riggs of Catonsville, Maryland, a son, Oliver Garrison III, of Golden, Colorado, two daughters, Mary Bayles Ricketson
(later Bullard) of Cambridge Mass and Mrs. Howard B. Sprague, Jr. Of Pride's Crossing; and a sister, Mrs. Robert W. Ferguson of Cumberland Island, GA
Contributor: Ed White (49189816) •
Dr. Oliver Garrison Ricketson, Jr., an archaeologist and anthropologist, died in the Bar Harbor Hospital . He was widely known for his anthropological studies among the Navajo Indians of the southwest and for his archaeological research of the Mayan ruins of Central America.
His mother was a niece of the steel magnet Andrew Carnegie. He graduated in 1916 from Harvard college, which awarded him a masters' degree in 1924 and a Doctorate of philosophy in 1933.
During WWI he served as a machinist's mate 2d class aboard a Naval Reserve Patrol Craft "Scooter" . off the New England coast. He had a short marriage (1917) in Philadelphia to Bertha Phillips Chase, and they were in the Cambridge, MA city directory (1918). He was released from active duty September 3, 1917 .Harvard Naval Unit. He spent most of the next three decades on Mayan Indian research in Central America.
Dr. Ricketson was survived by his third wife the former Anna Howard Riggs of Catonsville, Maryland, a son, Oliver Garrison III, of Golden, Colorado, two daughters, Mary Bayles Ricketson
(later Bullard) of Cambridge Mass and Mrs. Howard B. Sprague, Jr. Of Pride's Crossing; and a sister, Mrs. Robert W. Ferguson of Cumberland Island, GA
Contributor: Ed White (49189816) •
His mother was a niece of the steel magnet Andrew Carnegie. He graduated in 1916 from Harvard college, which awarded him a masters' degree in 1924 and a Doctorate of philosophy in 1933.
During WWI he served as a machinist's mate 2d class aboard a Naval Reserve Patrol Craft "Scooter" . off the New England coast. He had a short marriage (1917) in Philadelphia to Bertha Phillips Chase, and they were in the Cambridge, MA city directory (1918). He was released from active duty September 3, 1917 .Harvard Naval Unit. He spent most of the next three decades on Mayan Indian research in Central America.
Dr. Ricketson was survived by his third wife the former Anna Howard Riggs of Catonsville, Maryland, a son, Oliver Garrison III, of Golden, Colorado, two daughters, Mary Bayles Ricketson
(later Bullard) of Cambridge Mass and Mrs. Howard B. Sprague, Jr. Of Pride's Crossing; and a sister, Mrs. Robert W. Ferguson of Cumberland Island, GA
Contributor: Ed White (49189816) •
