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Born in Trenton, Maine on 18 March and raised on a small coastal farm, Ernest came to know and love the sea and revere the hardy mariners who had.!
Frank Speck
American anthropologist (1881–1950)
Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples among the Eastern WoodlandNative Americans of the United States and First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada.
Early life and education
Frank Gouldsmith Speck, son of Frank G. and Hattie Speck, was raised in urban settings (in Brooklyn, New York and Hackensack, New Jersey), with occasional summer family sojourns to rural Connecticut.
Gourd growers of the South Seas; an introduction to the study of the Lagenaria gourd in the culture of the Polynesians by Ernest S. Dodge.
He had two siblings: a sister, Gladys H. (8 years younger), and brother Reinhard S. (9 years younger). The Speck family was well-to-do, with live-in servants that included a German woman, Anna Muller, and a mixed Native American/African American woman, Gussie Giles from South Carolina.
Around 1910, Frank married Florence Insley, from Rockland, New York, and they raised three children: