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| | Samuel George Morton Papers, American Philosophical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Antebellum America's foremost craniologist, Samuel George Morton cast a long shadow over the history of physical anthropology and "race science." The son of Jane Cummings and the Philadelphia merchant, George Morton, Samuel was left fatherless at an early age, and was taken to Westchester County, N.Y., to be raised. |
 | | In 1815, however, Morton's education was interrupted when he was apprenticed to a merchant in the city, although his step-father and a family acquaintance, John Gummere, encouraged him to continue his studies on his own. |
 | | Beginning prior to 1834, Morton began to take a deep interest in the quintessentially American enterprise of racial science, and his groundbreaking work in craniology and craniometry proved to be the most enduring of his scientific contributions. |
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