Description: (Ethnologist)
William Churchill was a renowned American Polynesian ethnologist and philologist. He initially served as a consul general to Samoa and Tonga before moving to a role at the New York Sun as part of the editorial staff. His knowledge and skills earned him a position as a research associate in primitive philology at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. During World War I, he supported the war effort by working for the Committee on Public Information, where he encountered obstacles like a skull fracture caused by an enemy spy.