He was an interesting man.

By birth a German, he spoke excellent English; born of Protestant parents and reared in their faith, in early manhood be became a Catholic; renounced by his parents and left without support, he was befriended by Jesuits and determined to become a priest.

Entering the ministry at twenty-nine years of age, he was sent as mission priest to foreign lands.

He had lived in California, Utah, and Nevada; he had labored in Ecuador, Panama, and Guatemala.

His interest in archaeology, kindled in the Southwest, continued in his later fields of labor.