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Dr Edwin Meyer Loeb

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Dr Edwin Meyer Loeb Veteran

Birth
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Death
16 Aug 1966 (aged 72)
Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California, USA Add to Map
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Dr Edwin M Loeb, seventy-two years of age, died unexpectedly on August 16, 1966.

He was a nationally known anthropologist, a fellow of the American Anthropology Association, and a retired professor of the department of geography at the University of California Berkeley. Over the years, he had collected firsthand information about the mores of the natives in African jungles and the remote islands of the Pacific.

He was the author of a book on the history of the natives of Sumatra and a number of monographs on anthropology, including one on California Indians.

He graduated from Yale in 1916 with a bachelor of philosophy degree and received his doctorate from Yale in 1922. He subsequently pursued his research as a Guggenheim Fellow.

During World War II, he served with the Southeast Asia division of the Office of Strategic Services.

He is survived by his wife, Ella Marie Karr Loeb; and three children, Timothy Robert Loeb, Barbara Kennedy, and Peter Albert Loeb.
Dr Edwin M Loeb, seventy-two years of age, died unexpectedly on August 16, 1966.

He was a nationally known anthropologist, a fellow of the American Anthropology Association, and a retired professor of the department of geography at the University of California Berkeley. Over the years, he had collected firsthand information about the mores of the natives in African jungles and the remote islands of the Pacific.

He was the author of a book on the history of the natives of Sumatra and a number of monographs on anthropology, including one on California Indians.

He graduated from Yale in 1916 with a bachelor of philosophy degree and received his doctorate from Yale in 1922. He subsequently pursued his research as a Guggenheim Fellow.

During World War II, he served with the Southeast Asia division of the Office of Strategic Services.

He is survived by his wife, Ella Marie Karr Loeb; and three children, Timothy Robert Loeb, Barbara Kennedy, and Peter Albert Loeb.


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