Daniel Garrison Brinton

One of the founding fathers of modern American anthropology, Daniel Garrison Brinton was born in 1837 in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania. He worked as a surgeon during the American Civil War in the Union Army and was the surgeon-in-charge during 1864–65 of the US Army general hospital at Quincy, Illinois. In 1884, Brinton worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, as a professor of ethnology and archaeology, and then, in 1886, joined the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of archaeology and American linguistics. Notes on the Floridian Peninsula (1859), The Myths of the New World (1868), American Hero-Myths (1882) and The Pursuit of Happiness (1893) are some of his works.