Records of Francis Sumner on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Sumner and the Sumner Family Tree

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Some Famous People called Francis Sumner

Francis Sumner

Francis Cecil Sumner (December 7, 1895 – January 11, 1954) was an American leader in education reform. He is commonly referred to as the "Father of Black Psychology." He is primarily known for being the first African American to receive a Ph.D in psychology (in 1920). He worked closely with G. Stanley Hall during his time at Clark University, and his dissertation—published in Pedagogical Seminary, which later became the Journal of Genetic Psychology—focused on "Psychoanalysis of Freud and Adler." Source: Francis Sumner, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Francis Bertody Sumner

Francis Bertody Sumner (August 1, 1874 – September 6, 1945) was an American ichthyologist, zoologist and writer.

Sumner was born in Pomfret, Connecticut. He studied at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University where in 1901 he received a PhD with a thesis on fish embryology. He became the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory at Woods Hole. He worked as a Professor of Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Sumner collected many subspecies of Peromyscus in California. He also studied the pigments of fishes.

Source: Francis Bertody Sumner, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Sumner

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