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Squier, Ephraim George

archæologist, author, was born June 17, 1821, in Bethlehem, N. Y. He was an archæologist and diplomatist, consul to Peru in 1863-65, and consul-general of Honduras at New York in 1868. He was the author of Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H. Davis); Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America; Serpent Symbols; and Peru. He died April 17, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.