Jay Webber Seaver (March 9, 1855 – May 5, 1915 ) was an American physician and a pioneer of

anthropometry Anthropometry () refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variation, in paleoanthropology and in various atte ...

Life

Seaver was born in

Craftsbury, Vermont Craftsbury is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,343 at the 2020 census. The town includes the unincorporated villages of Craftsbury, Craftsbury Common, Mill Village, and East Craftsbury. History The state ...

as son of William Seaver and Betsy Urie, and had four siblings.Randall J. Seaver
''Descendants of Caleb Seaver''
, May 18, 2005. He studied at the

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary t ...

, where he became professor in his later life. Seaver measured the bodies of thousands of people attending the summer school resort at

Chautauqua Chautauqua ( ) was an adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua bro ...

, New York.,

William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

''Strategies for Personality Transfer - Basic Tendencies''
. and published the results of his studies in his work ''Anthropometry and physical examination. A book for practical use in connection with gymnastic work and physical education.''. On July 1, 1886, he married Leona Nancy Sheldon Sullivan. Seaver died in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...

, and was buried at Chautauqua Cemetery on the main road to Jamestown.''Chautauqua Cemetery''
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Honors and awards

Honorary Fellow in Memoriam, National Academy of Kinesiology

References

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