Prof. Daniel John Crowley - I3 - Individual Information -

Prof. Daniel John Crowley (I3)

Prefix: Prof.
Given Names: Daniel John
Surname: Crowley

Note: His confirmation name was Michael.

Gender: Male

Birth: 27 November 1921 St. Francis Hospital, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Death: 24 February 1998 Oruro, Oruro, Bolivia

Personal Facts and Details

Personal Facts and Details

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Birth	27 November 1921 2928 St. Francis Hospital, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Latitude: N40.74 Longitude: W89.61
Education	1934? Grade School Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Address: 510 E. Kansas Street Peoria, Ill 61603 Corporation / Company: St. Bernard's Church School
Education	1939 (Age 18) High School Graduation Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Corporation / Company: Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute
Education	1943 (Age 22) A.B. Theory and Practice of Art Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA Corporation / Company: Northwestern University
Military	2 August 1943 - 1 November 1947 (Age approx. 22-26) Midshipman, Ensign Lieutenant ‎(junior grade)‎, APA-17, USS American Legion, United States Navy, WWII Source: Military: Notice of Separation From US Naval Service Note: Became Coding Officer then Secret Publications Issuing Officer for ComPhibsTraPac
Residence	c. April 1946 - May 1946 (Age approx. 25) Naval Hospital Charleston, North Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA Note: He contracted poliomyelitis in April 1946 and was left a partial-quadriplegic ‎‎‎(tetraplegic)‎‎.
Residence	c. June 1946 - April 1947 (Age approx. 25-26) Warm Springs Foundation, Warms Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia, USA Note: He spent 10 months recovering at Warm Springs and remained confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Education	1948 (Age 27) M.A. Art and Art History Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA Corporation / Company: Bradley University,
Education	1956 (Age 35) Ph.D. African Studies Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA Corporation / Company: Northwestern University
Occupation	c. 1961-1998 (Age approx. 40-77) Professor of Anthropology and Art, Davis, Yolo County, California, USA Corporation / Company: University of California, Davis
Associate	INDI GODF: Daniel Joseph Goggin (I189) - [Relationship Chart] Relationship: GODF
Associate	INDI GODM: Sylvia June Schnebelin (I388) - [Relationship Chart] Relationship: GODM
Death	24 February 1998 (Age 76) Oruro, Oruro, Bolivia Latitude: S17.975 Longitude: W67.110 Note: Died on Fat Tuesday ‎(Shrove Tuesday)‎, the last day of the Bolivian Carnival he was celebrating.
Burial	Oruro, Oruro, Bolivia Note: He was a true citizen of the world and always said "Just bury me where I drop."
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Notes

Note	Published "I Could Talk Old-Story Good: Creativity in Bahamian Folklore," 1966.
Note	Named "World's Most Traveled Handicapped Person," Guinness Book of World Records, 1978. At the time of his death he had circled the globe nine times and visited every nation except Iraq. Source: Article: 25 years ago, 1978 Source Text: The 1978 edition of the Guiness Book of World Records reads: "The most countries visited by a disabled person is 115 soverign and 59 nonsoverign countries by Professor Daniel J. Crowley of Davis, California, who has been confined to a wheelchair since March 1946, since he contracted polio." He is looking over his world map these days in search of a country he has not yet visited. In June he is bound for Brazil, leaving only 69 countries left to see.
Note	Godfather: Daniel J. Goggin ‎(I189)‎ - his first cousin once removed on his father's side Godmother: Sylvia June Schnebelin ‎(I388)‎ - his first cousin on his mother's side
Note	His death merited a New York Times obituary, complete with photo. Click on the plus sign below to read the text. Source: Obituary, New York Times: Daniel J. Crowley Source Text: March 1998 Dr. Daniel J. Crowley, an anthropologist who loved parties so much that he devoted his life to attending carnivals, festivals and other celebrations in every corner of the globe, died Feb. 24 while in Oruro, Bolivia, for a Mardi Gras carnival. He was 76 and had been professor of anthropology and art history at the University of California. For someone who used a wheelchair, Crowley got around. He circled the globe nine times and claimed to have visited every state in the union and every nation except Iraq, generally finding a party at each stop. The trips earned him recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records as athe most traveled disabled person, but the quest for records was not his motivating force. For Crowley - who was paralyzed after contracting polio in the Navy in World War II, used the GI Bill to get a Master's Degree in art history from Bradley University and a Doctorate in anthropology from Northwestern - there was another reason: he was born in Peoria, IL as the product of what he considered a painfully conventional family in a drab, hidebound community, he defined his entire career as escape from Peoria and cheerfully rubbed it in every December with what his family called his notorious Christmas letter. Sent to hundreds, including those who had derided his dreams of life beyond Peoria, the letter detailed his previous year of exotic travel with frequent references to his exotic wife, Pearl, a Trinidadian of pure Indian extraction. As a scholar, his specialty was the arts and culture of Africa and African outposts in the New World, with an emphasis on Mardi Gras and other eruptions of excess in the Caribbean and South America. Crowley, who helped develop the field of african studies and won numerous honors for his work had only limited use of his arms. He typed with one finger in turning out more than 350 papers and several books, including a Creativity in Bahamian Folklore. But his real forte was the field trip. Over the years he wangled temporary teaching assignments at a dozen other colleges, including posts in Trinidad, Australia and India, and was forever flying off to join one celebration or another, in the interest of scholarship, of course. Needing someone to push him around, Crowley, who wore out more than a dozen wheelchairs, hit upon an ingenious scheme to attract assistants. For more than 20 years, he ran a program for the University of California at Berkeley under University Research Expedition Projects, or high-spirited trips to blowouts around the world. It was a tribute to his dedication that he once attended carnival in Iceland. The beer helped, but the scholar who spent much of his time surrounded by writhing naked and near-naked bodies in warmer climes had trouble relating to revelers in parkas. Even though Crowley managed to take notes in a laborious scrawl he never had trouble lifting a glass. A man who relished good food and good drink of every cuisine, he was forever inventing exotic new cocktails. Crowley preferred a balcony at festival time, partly because of his experiences at ground level revelry. "When they come at you in Rio de Janeiro after snorting amyl nitrite and drinking quantities of liquor," he once said, "you'd better get out of the way. They have left footprints on my forehead." Crowley predicted his obituary would say, "He died as he lived: crushed by 50,000 Brazilians doing the samba." His family said he had died peacefully of a heart attack in his sleep in a hotel room on Mardi Gras morning. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Peter, of Martinez, Calif.; two daughters Eve, of Rome and Magdalene, of Berkeley; a sister, Patricia Capitelli of Peoria, and two grandchildren.
Note	Daniel Crowley had obituaries in a number of publications including Western Folklore ‎‎(the summer 1999 issue was dedicated to him)‎‎, the University of California, and the American Anthropological Association. There is also a scholarship at U.C. Davis in his name. See http://www.crowley.cx/Daniel for more information.

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Source	Genealogy of Daniel J. Crowley Research and anecdotes by Daniel Crowley passed on to his children. Data Source Text: Academy of Our Lady, Spalding Institute, class of 1939. A.B. Theory and Practice of Art, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill, 1943. Commissioned Ensign 11/43, assigned duty aboard APA-17, USS American Legion; transferred to Coding Officer, later Secret Publications Issuing Officer for ComPhibsTraPac, WWII. Contracted poliomyelitis 4/46; spent 10 months in GA Warms Springs Foundation then 2 months at Navy Hospital, Charleston, SC. M.A. Art & Art History, Bradley University, Peoria, Ill, 1948. Ph.D. African Studies, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill, 1956.
Source	1930 US Census: Illinois, Peoria, Peoria, district 14, page 4A Data Source Text: Name: Daniel Crowley Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1922 Relation to head-of-house: Son Father's Name: Michel B Crowley Mother's Name: Elsie M Crowley Home in 1930: Peoria, Peoria, Illinois
Source	Death Index: Social Security Record Data Source Text: Name: Daniel J. Crowley SSN: 337-14-0759 Last Residence: 95616 Davis, Yolo, California, United States of America Born: 27 Nov 1921 Died: 24 Feb 1998 State ‎(Year)‎ SSN issued: Illinois ‎(Before 1951 )