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Hodge (FREDERICK WEBB an American)

FREDERICK WEBB, an American ethnologist, born in Plymouth, England, in 1864. He was brought to this country at the age of seven years and was educated in the public schools, and entered Columbian, now George Washington, University. He took part in several archæological expeditions carried on by the United States Government and archæological societies in Arizona and New Mexico from 1886 to 1889. In the latter year he became editor of publications and librarian of the Bureau of American Ethnology. He continued his researches among the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico and was the first to successfully climb the "Enchanted Mesa" in New Mexico. From 1905 he devoted special attention to the Handbook of the Bureau of American Ethnology. From 1910 he was ethnologistin-charge at the Bureau of American Ethnology. He was a member of many scientific societies. His published writings include "Coronado's Route from Culiacan to Quivira" (1899). He edited the narratives of early Spanish explorers.