Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. (December 6, 1869 - February 24, 1956) was an American zoologist. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ...
He was born in Peterboro, New York in 1869. He graduated from Harvard University in 1894 and worked under Clinton Hart Merriam at the United States Department of Agriculture. He became assistant curator of mammals at the United States National Museum in Washington in 1898 and was curator from 1909 to 1940, when he became an Associate in biology at the Smithsonian Institution. Peterboro is a historic village located in the Town of Smithfield, Madison County in the U.S. state of New York. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855-March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist and ornithologist. ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture, also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA, is a Cabinet department of the United States Federal Government. ... The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ...
In 1915, he published results of his studies of casts of specimens associated with the Piltdown Man, concluding that the jaw actually came from a fossil ape. Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni) was a hoax which was perpetrated, possibly by Charles Dawson and/or others, on paleontologists from November 1912 until its exposure in 1953. ...
Smith enjoyed a financially secure life except for a short time during the Panic of 1837, when her family moved from their mansion to a cottage and Smith and her mother worked as clerks in her fathers land office.
Smith was educated mainly by her father and governesses, except for a period in 1835-6, when she attended a "manual labor school" in Clinton, New York, and in 1839, when she went to Friends School in Philadelphia.
Miller was perhaps most fondly remembered by her contemporaries for carrying on the tradition -- established by her father and mother in Peterboro -- of providing a welcoming environment for reformers and philosophers.
GerritSmith was a widely known philanthropist and social reformer of the mid-nineteenth century.
Their son, GerritSmithMiller placed the papers of Peter and GerritSmith in the care of Syracuse University in 1928, twelve years before the family mansion and its contents were destroyed in a fire.
Smith was a financial supporter of John Brown's military activity in Kansas, and was implicated in his raid on Harper's Ferry.
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