Oliver G. Ricketson, Jr. (1894-1952) was born in September 19 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When he was five years old, his family moved to Cumberland Island, Georgia. In 1916 he entered Harvard Medical School, but enlisted in the navy the next year at the outbreak of World War I. He returned to school after the war, but only remained a year. He spent most of his life traveling and working on architectural surveys on the Yucatan peninsula and other international regions. He focused much of his time on the excavations of Mayan ruins. Ricketson died in Bar Harbor, Maine, on October 17, 1952 (a complete biography is available in S.K. Lothrop's article, "Oliver Garrison Ricketson, Jr." in American Antiquity, Vol. 19, No. 1 (July 1953), 69-72.
From the description of Oliver G. Ricketson, Jr. typescript of Memoir, or a Cursory Glance at My Different Travels and My Sojourn in the Creek Nation, ca. 1950. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 157010771
