David Crockett Graham

David Crockett Graham , D.Sc., Ph.D., B.D., F.R.G.S. was a polymath American Baptist minister and missionary, educator, author, archeologist, anthropologist, naturalist and field collector in Szechuan Province, West China from 1911 to 1948. From 1921 to 1942, Graham collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution nearly 400,000 zoological specimens, including more than 230 new species andnew genera, of whichwere named after him . From 1932 to 1942 he was curator of the Museum of Art, Archeology and Ethnology at the West China Union University, which still stands as part of Sichuan University, in Chengtu. There, he taught comparative religions at the Theological College, and archeology and anthropology at the University. He wrote extensively and spent his retirement years, from 1950 to 1961, in Englewood, Colorado compiling his writings and research into three books that were published by the Smithsonian Institution. McKhann refers to Graham as One of a handful of Western miss

Graham was born in Green Forest, Arkansas on March 21, 1884 to William Edward Graham and Elizabeth Belinda Graham .96 His family moved to Walla Walla, Washington when he was a small child, and he grew up there. When he wasyears old, his mother died of TB,181 and his older sister Elmina Elizabeth Graham , who had just turned 12, raised him. Elmina was a strong believer in education and supported David through his education . Graham entered Whitman College in 1904 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1908. He then entered Rochester Theological Seminary where he studied under and was influenced by Walter Rauschenbusch.183184 He completed his studies for the Bachelor of Divinity in 1911.

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