Jessup did Archaeological Research at Tayasal, the last Mayan stronghold said be to abandoned around 700 AD, on the shores of Lake Peten Itsa.
In December of 1921, he had applied for a passport to visit Guatemala and what was then British Honduras for archaeological research
Jessup was appointed as an assistant in the astronomy department from 1921~Jan 18th, 1922
The 1920 edition of the “Catalogue of the University of Michigan” shows Morris K. Jessup from Rockville, Indiana, enrolled in the Schools of Engineering and Architecture.
Morris Kethcum Jessup was born 2 March 1900 in Rockville, Indiana. Morris’s mother was the former Alice Edna Swaim. His father, George Washington Jessup.
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