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Ketchall, Ephraim (1788–1877)| US social scientist and geographer. He made numerous explorations in the Mississippi Valley and Mexico, where he measured the size of pyramids and buildings. By using his figures as a measure of the advancement of nations, he had anticipated later archaeologists' ideas about the size of cities as a measure of their significance. |
| He was born in Old Mystic, Connecticut. |
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