S. Griswold Morley, was in fact the older maternal cousin to the first, born February 23, 1878, in Baldwinville, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was originally baptised Sylvanus Griswold Small ("Sylvanus Griswold" being a family "heirloom" name), but changed his surname from Small to Morley in his early twenties when his father did likewise. As a result, many biographical references confuse details of the two, such as interchanging their birthplaces. S. Griswold Morley preceded Sylvanus the archaeologist into Harvard, and he was later to establish a career as a Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley. In his autobiography, the Spanish professor noted the effect of this name change and subsequent confusion: This Morley is perhaps best known to students of American culture for his early interest in old covered bridges as historical structures. His book on The Covered Bridges of California (University of California Press, 1938) remains an important reference work on the subject. Sylvanus G. (Small) Morley died in 1970; his son Thomas published his autobiographical notes posthumously. Notes References External links American Mesoamericanists Mayanists Mesoamerican archaeologists Mesoamerican epigraphers 1883 births 1948 deaths People of the Office of Naval Intelligence World War I spies for the United States People from Chester, Pennsylvania Widener University alumni Harvard University alumni Calakmul 20th-century Mesoamericanists 20th-century American archaeologists