Squier.

Squier. EPHRAIM GEORGE, American author and archaeologist, was born at Bethlehem, New York, June 17, 1821. From 1841 to 1848 he was a newspaper editor, latterly in Ohio; and his attention being attracted to the antiquities of the Scioto Valley, he made an exploration of similar monuments through the Mississippi Valley, an account of which was published in vol. i. of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (1848). He made similar explorations in New York in 1848; and next year being appointed chargé d'affaires to the states of Central America, he used his official position as a means of making extensive geographical and archaeological explorations in those regions. For his researches he received the gold medal of the French Geographical Society. In 1853 he surveyed a railway route through Honduras, and extended his archaeological inquiries. In 1863 he was appointed U.S. commissioner to Peru; and afterwards he edited Frank Leslie's publications. He died in Brooklyn, 17th April 1888. Among his works are Nicaragua: its People, Scenery, and Ancient Monuments (1852); Serpent Symbols (1852); Notes on Central America (1854); Wauku, or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore (1855); Central America (1857); and Peru: Explorations in the Land of the Incas (1877).