George Ricker Berry, D.D., Ph.D., (15 October 1865 – 24 May 1945) was an internationally known Semitic scholar and archaeologist, and Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School.
[1] Berry married Carrie Leola Clough (1877 – 4 March 1909), in Liberty, Waldo, Maine, on 17 August 1893.
degree from Colby College in 1885, and graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1889.
He was one of the first students to attend the University of Chicago when the new school opened in 1892, where he studied Semitic languages.
He was promoted to Professor in 1897 and in the following years expanded the Assyriological offerings at Colgate.