Chicago. Doctoral Dissertations in Economics, 1894-1926

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Sixty Ph.D.’s in political economy/economics were awarded at the University of Chicago between 1894-1926. Names, dates of birth and death, previous education, dissertation titles (with links to the published dissertation where available) and basic career c.v.’s  (to be updated as additional information comes up) are found below. 

Cf. Page for 114 Harvard Ph.D.’s completed between 1875-1926.

Image Source: Seventh Convocation of the University of Chicago (Albert A Michelson, professor of Physics is delivering the Address), July 2, 1894.  James Laurence Laughlin, Head of the department of political economy, is in the second row, third from the right.  University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf3-00416, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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1894. Cummings, John.

Thesis Title: The Poor Law system of the United States. Published as “The Poor Laws of Massachusetts and New York.” Publications of the American Economic Association, vol. X, no. 4 (July, 1895), [Table of Contents] and [Preface] [Main Text].

A.B. Harvard College, 1891; A.M. Harvard University, 1892.

1868, May 18. Born in Colebrook, New Hampshire.
1887. Entered Harvard College.
1893-94. Senior Fellow, Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1894. Reader in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1894-1900. Instructor in Economics, Harvard University.
1900-02. Editorial staff New York Evening Post.
1902-10. Assistant Professor in Political Economy. University of Chicago.
1910-16. Expert special agent, Census Bureau.
1917-23. Statistician, Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.
1924-30. Statistician and economist, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board.
1930-1933. Chief of Research and Statistics, Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.
1933-. Chief of research and statistical service, vocation education, United States Office of Education.
1936, June 26.  Died in Washington, D.C.

Obituary in The Washington Post, June 27, 1936, page 8.

 

1897. Hatfield, Henry Rand.

Thesis Title: Municipal bonding in the United States. [“…reported to be 1923 pages. No copies survived.”]

A. B. Northwestern University, 1892.

1866, November 27. Born in Chicago, Illinois.
1884. Enrolled in Northwestern University, withdrawing 1886 to work in the bond house S. A. Kean & Co.
1891. Re-enrolled in Northwestern University.
1893-4. Instructor in Political Economy and Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis.
1897-98. Fellow, Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1898-1902. Instructor in newly established College of Commerce and Administration, University of Chicago.
1900. Travels to Germany to learn about business education there.
1902-4. Assistant Professor and Dean of College of Commerce and Administration, University of Chicago.
1904. Associate Professor of Accounting, University of California, Berkeley.
1909. Professor of Accounting and Secretary of the College of Commerce, University of California, Berkeley.
1916. Change in title to Dean Secretary of the College of Commerce, University of California, Berkeley.
1918/19. Director of the Division of Planning and Statistics of the War Industries Board.
1938, April 1. Professor Emeritus of Accounting, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
1945, December 25
. Died in Berkeley, California.

Biography:  Stephen A. Zeff, Henry Rand Hatfield: Humanist, Scholar and Accounting Educator (Stamford, Ct: JAI Press, 2000).

 

1897. McLean, Simon James.

Thesis Title: The railway policy of Canada [see McLean post]

A.B. University of Toronto, 1894. LL.B. University of Toronto, 1895. A.M. Columbia University, 1896.

1871, June 14. Born in Brooklyn, New York.
1894-95. Fellow in Economics, University of Toronto.
1895-96. Fellow in Economics, Columbia University.
1896-97. Fellow, Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1897-1902 Professor of Economics and Sociology. University of Arkansas.
1902-1905. Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
1906. Professor of economics of commerce and transportation, University of Toronto.
1908, September 17  to August 5, 1919 Commissioner, Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
1919, August 6 to September 16, 1938 as Assistant Chief Commissioner, Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
1946, November 5. Died in Ottawa.

 

1897. Tunell, George Gerard.

Thesis Title: Transportation on the Great Lakes of North America.

S.B. University of Minnesota, 1892.

1868, April 6. Born in Chicago, Illinois.
1892-3. Fellow in History, University of Chicago.
1893-4. Honorary Fellow in Political Science, University of Chicago.
1894-97. Fellow, Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1913.
Commissioner, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
1921.
 Secretary of the Board of Pensions of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System, Chicago, Ill.
1931, April 1. Commissioner of Taxes, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System, Chicago, Ill.
1938, April 1. Commissioner of Taxes, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System, Chicago, Ill.
1942, Jan 1. Retired from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., Chicago, Ill.
1942, Apr. 29. Died in Chicago, Illinois.

 

1898. Davenport, Herbert Joseph.

Thesis Title: The French war indemnity.

Harvard Law School, 1881-4; Student in Paris and Leipzig, 1889-91; A.B. University of South Dakota, 1895.

1861, August 10. Born in Wilmington, Vermont.
1893-7.
Principal Sioux Falls High School.
1897-8. Fellow, University of Chicago.
1902-4. Instructor in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1904-7. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago.
1907-8. Associate Professor, University of Chicago.
1908. Department head and first dean of the College of Business, University of Missouri.
1913.  Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
1916-29. Professor of Political Economy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1929-. Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1931, June 16. Died in New York City.

 

1898. Willis, Henry Parker.

Thesis Title: A history of the Latin Monetary Union.
Published as A History of the Latin Monetary Union: A Study of International Monetary Action. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1901.

A.B. University of Chicago, 1894.

1874, August 14. Born at Weymouth, Massachusetts.
1894-5.
Graduate Student, University of Chicago.
1895-8. Fellow of Political Economy, University of Chicago.
Economics and Political Science, Washington and Lee University.
1907. Professor of Finance, George Washington University
1913. Associate Editor, New York Journal of Commerce.
1914-18. First Secretary of the Federal Reserve Board.
1918-22. Director of Research of the Federal Reserve Board.
1919. Editor-in-Chief, New York Journal of Commerce.
1921. Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1931. Resigns as editor of Journal of Commerce.
1937, July 18. Died in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

 

1899. Millis, Harry Alvin.

Thesis Title: History of the finances of the city of Chicago.

A.B. Indiana University, 1895; A.M. Indiana University, 1896.

1873. Born May 14 in Paoli, Indiana.
1895-96
. Fellow in Sociology, University of Chicago.
1898-99. Fellow, University of Chicago.
1899-1902. Reference librarian at the John Crerar Library, Chicago.
1902-4. Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Arkansas.
1904-11. Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
1907. Co-founder of the National Tax Association.
1912-16. Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.
1916-. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
1920. Professor of Political Economy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1928-38. Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1934-5. Member of the National Labor Relations Board.
1938. Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1948. Died June 25.

 

1899. Mitchell, Wesley Clair.

Thesis Title: History of the United States notes.
Published in an expanded version as A History of the Greenbacks with Special Reference to the Economic Consequences of Their Issue: 1862-65. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1903.

A.B., University of Chicago, 1896.

1874, August 5. Born in Rushville, Illinois. 
1896-99.
Fellow, University of Chicago.
1899-1900. Worked in Division of Methods and Results under Walter F. Willcox of Cornell at the Census Office in Washington, D.C.
1900-01. Assistant in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1901-02. Instructor, University of Chicago.
1903-08. Assistant Professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley.
1908/09. Visiting lecturer, Harvard University.
1909-12. Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
1913. Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1914-44. Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1919-21. Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
1919-1948. Founder, director of research, National Bureau of Economic Research.
1948, October 29. Died in New York City.

Autobiographical/biographical: Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Two Lives: The Story of Wesley Clair Mitchell and Myself, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

 

1900. Davis, Katharine Bement.

Thesis Title: Causes affecting the standard of living and wages.

A.B. Vassar College, 1892.

1860, January 15. Born in Buffalo, New York.
1885-92. Teacher of Sciences, Dunkirk, N.Y., High School.
1893-7. Head of Pennsylvania College Settlement.
Lecturerer in Drexel Institute, and on the Staff of University Extension, American Society, Philadelphia.
1897-98; 1899-1900. Fellow, University of Chicago.
1913. Superintendent, State Reformatory for Women, Bedford Hills, N.Y.
1914-18. Head of the Correction Commission of New York.
1918-27. General Secretary, Bureau of Social Hygiene, New York City.
1928-35. Retired to Asilomar, Calif.
1935. Died December 10 in California.

 

1900. Sterns, Worthy Putnam.

Thesis Title: Studies on the foreign trade of the United States.
Publication: The Foreign Trade of the United States from 1820 to 1840. Part I: Vol. 8, No. 1 (December, 1899), pp. 34-57,  Part II: Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 1900) pp. 452-490.

A.B. University of Nebraska, 1895; A.M. University of Nebraska, 1897; Graduate Student, University of Nebraska, 1897-97.

1878 [ca.] Born in Iowa.
1897-1900. Fellow, University of Chicago.
1901. Clerk, Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.
1913. Special Examiner in the Bureau of Corporations.
1921. Special Examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D.C.
1938. Retired, 1833 Lamont St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

 

1901. Padan, Robert Samuel.

Thesis Title: Studies in interest.

A.B. Marietta College, 1874.

1853, April 1. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio.
1874-5.
 Principal of Circleville Grammar School.
1875-6. Superintendent, Jackson High School.
1899-1900. Graduate Student. University of Chicago.
1906, September 17.  Died in Ganges, Michigan.

 

1903. Arbuthnot, Charles Criswell.

Thesis Title: The development of the corporation and the entrepreneur function.

B.S. Geneva College, 1899.

1876, May 30. Born.
1899-1900. Assistant in History, Geneva College.
1901-3. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1903-4. Instructor in Political Economy, University of Nebraska.
1904. Adjunct Professor, University of Nebraska.
1904-6. Instructor in Economics, Adelbert College and Flora Stone Mather College.
1906-8. Associate Professor of Economics. Adelbert College, Western Reserve University
1908-37. Professor of Economics. Western Reserve University
1916. LL.D., Geneva College.
1937-46. Professor of Business and Economics, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
1963, March 11. Died in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

 

1903. Leacock, Stephen Butler.

Thesis Title: The doctrine of laissez faire.
Published in My Recollection of Chicago, and the Doctrine of Laissez Faire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

A.B. University of Toronto, 1891.

1869, December 30. Born in Stanmore (near Southampton) England.
1876. Family emigrated to Canada, settled in Sutton, Ontario.
1889-99.
Instructor in French and German, Upper Canada College.
1899-1900. Graduate Student, University of Chicago.
1921. Head of Department of Economics and Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1931, April 1. Professor and Head of Department of Economics and Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1936. Retires becoming Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1944, March 28. Died.

 

1904. Wildman, Murray Shipley.

Thesis Title: The economic and social conditions which explain inflation Movements in the United States.
Published as Money Inflation in the United States, Chicago:  1905.

Ph.B. Earlham College, 1893.

1868, Feb. 22. Born in near Selma, Clark County, Ohio.
1893-5.
 Teacher of History and Economics, Spiceland Academy and Normal School.
1895-7. Cashier of the Henry County Bank, Spiceland, Indiana.
1897-1901. Vice President of the Henry County Bank, Spiceland, Indiana.
1898-1901. Superintendent, Spinland Academy and Normal School.
1901-4. Graduate Student in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1902-04. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1904-05. Professor of History and Economics, Central College, Missouri.
1905-1906. Instructor in economics, University of Missouri.
1906[?]-1909. Assistant professor of economics, University of Missouri.
1909-12. Professor of economics and commerce, Northwestern University.
1912-. Professor of economics, Stanford University.
1921. Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford University, Cal.
1930.  Died December 24 in Santa Clara, California.

 

1905. Abbott, Edith.

Thesis Title: A statistical study of the wages of unskilled labor in the United States, 1830-1900.
Publication in The Journal of Political Economy (June, 1905) as “The Wages of Unskilled Labor in the United States 1850-1900”.

A.B. University of Nebraska, 1901.

1876, September 26. Born in Grand Island, Nebraska.
1893. Graduated Brownell Hall in Omaha, Nebraska.
1901-03.
Instructor in Mathematics, Lincoln, Nebraska, High School.
1903. Graduate Student, University of Nebraska.
1903-05. Fellow, Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1906-07. Carnegie Fellowship for postgraduate study at the London School of Economics.
1907-1908. Taught at Wellesley College
1908-20. Resident of Hull House. Associate Director of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy at the University of Chicago.
1909-10. Special Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1921. Associate Professor of Social Service Administration in the Graduate School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1924-42. Dean of the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.
1926. Established Cook County (Illinois) Bureau of Public Welfare.
1935. Assisted in drafting the Social Security Act.
1942-1953. Dean Emeritus.
1957, 29 July. Died in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska.

 

1905. Howard, Earl Dean.

Thesis Title: The recent industrial progress of Germany.
Won the Hart, Schaffner & Marx prize ($600) for 1905. Dissertation published as The Cause and Extent of the Recent Industrial Progress of GermanyBoston: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press (Cambridge), 1907.

Student, Fayette Normal University, 1891-4; Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1902; Ph.M. University of Chicago, 1903.

1876, June 9. Born in Fayette, Ohio.
1897,
Spring. Admitted to the University of Chicago.
1900. Founded the Daily Maroon, first daily newspaper of the University of Chicago.
1903-4. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1904-5. University of Chicago Fellowship to attend the University of Berlin.
1905-1907. Instructor of Banking and Economics at the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania.
1907. Doctoral thesis published. Winner of the first Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize ($600).
1907-15. Assistant Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.
1915-41. Professor of Sociology and Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
1920-22. Visiting lecturer, Harvard University.
1922. Visit to Moscow and Petrograd with Sidney Hillman and other labor leaders.
1931.
 Labor manager, Hart Schaffner and Marx, Chicago, Ill., and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
1931. Visiting lecturer, Stanford University.
1941. Retired from Northwestern.
1956, July 14. Died in Evanston, Ill.

 

1905. Hoxie, Robert Franklin.

Thesis Title: An analysis of the concepts of demand and supply in their relation to market price.
Published as The Demand and Supply Concepts. An Introduction to the Study of Market Price. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906.

Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1893.

1868, April 29. Born in Edmeston, New York.
1893-6.
Fellow in Political Economy.
1897-8. Acting Professor of Political Economy, Cornell College, Iowa.
1898-1901. Instructor in Economics, Washington University.
1901-2. Acting Professor of Political Economy and Political Science, Washington and Lee University.
1903. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1903-6. Instructor in Economics, Cornell University.
1906-8. Instructor in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1908-12. Assistant Professor in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1912-16. Associate Professor in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1914-15. Appointee of United States Commission on Industrial Relations.
1916. Died [suicide] June 22.

 

1906. Merritt, Albert Newton.

Thesis Title: Federal regulation of railway rates.
Publication:  Chicago, 1906. (Hart, Schaffner & Marx Prize First Prize, 1906)

A. B. Battle Creek College, 1899; A.B. Leland Stanford Jr. University, 1901; A.M. University of Chicago, 1903.

1906. Knox College (Galesburg, IL)
1913. Secretary of the Chicago Wholesale Grocers Association.
WWI, Distribution division of the U.S. Food Administration, Washington, D.C.
1921. Secretary-Treasurer, Wholesale Grocers Exchange, Chicago, Ill.
1926. Chicago Wholesale Grocers Association dissolved. Given the credit bureau portion to run as a private business. (Merritt Credit Bureau)
1931. Food Trades Credit Bureau of Chicago, 549 West Washington St., Chicago, Ill.
1938. Owner and Manager, Food Trades Credit Bureau of Chicago, 549 West Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

 

1907. Bridgman, Donald Elliott.

Thesis Title: An examination into the economic causes of large fortunes.
(published 1909)

A.B. Hamline University, 1903; Student, University of Munich, 1903-4.

1886, June 13. Born.
1910. 
LL.B. Harvard Law School.
1921. Attorney, 801 First National-Soo Line Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
1931, April 1. Attorney, 801 First National-Soo Line Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
1937 married Elizabeth Klein.
1938, April 1. Attorney, 801 First National-Soo Line Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
1976, June 6. Died.

 

1908. Patton, Eugene Bryan.

Thesis Title: The resumption of specie payment in 1879.

A.B. Washington University, 1904.

1879, July 20. Born in Wilson County, Tennessee.
1904-5. St. Louis Public Library.
1905-7.
Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1910.
Instructor in Economics and History, University of Rochester.
1911-13.
Expert, New York State Department of Labor, Bureau of Statistics.
1920-27. Chief Statistician, Bureau of Labor, Albany, N.Y
1927– Director, Division of Statistics and Information, New York State Department of Labor, New York, N.Y.
1966, 20 April. Died in Westchester County, New York.

1908. Skelton, Oscar Douglas.

Thesis Title: An examination of Marxian theory.
Revision published as Socialism: A Critical Analysis (1911). First Prize (1908) Hart Schaffer & Marx Prize Essay.

A.M. Queens University, 1899

1878, 13 July. Born in Orangeville, Ontario.
1909-25. John A. Macdonald Professor of Political Science and Economics, Queen’s University.
1919-25. Dean of Arts, Queen’s University.
1925-1941. Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada.
1941, January 28. Died in Ottawa.

 

1908. Swanson, William Walker.

Thesis Title: The establishment of the National Banking System.
Published 1910, Kingston: Jackson Press.

A.M. Queen’s University, 1905.

1879. Born in Ontario.
1908-16.
 Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Queen’s University.
1916-45. Head of the Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1929. Chairman of a provincial Royal Commission on Immigration.
1950, July 21. Died in Saskatoon.

 

1908. Youngman, Anna Prichitt.

Thesis Title: The economic causes of large fortunes.
Published as The Economic Causes of Great Fortunes, New York: Bankers Publishing, Co., 1909.

Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1904.

1883. Born in Lexington, Kentucky.
1908-14.
Instructor in economics, Wellesley College.
1911-2. Winter Semester at the University of Berlin. Later at the University of Frankfurt/Main.
1914-20. Associate Professor, Wellesley College.
1919. Leave of absence to work at the Federal Reserve Board.
1921.
Research Assistant, Division of Analysis and Research, Federal Reserve Board; Lecturer in Banking, School of Business, Columbia University, New York City.
1924-1933. Editorial writer, Journal of Commerce, 46 Barclay St., New York, N.Y.
1933-52. Editorial Writer, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
1974, February 16. Died in Silver Spring, Maryland.

 

1909. Stephens, George Asbury.

Thesis Title: Influence of trade education upon wages.

A.B. Baker University, 1899; A.M. Chicago, 1907.

1873, August 14. Born in Kansas.
1900-01.
Principal, Attica Kansas High School.
1902. Graduate Student, Winter and Spring Quarters, University of Chicago.
1902-04.Principal, Manhattan, Kansas high School.
1904-07. Instructor in English and Economics, Topeka, Kansas High School.
1904-07. Summer quarters, Graduate Student at the University of Chicago.
1908-09. Fellow, University of Chicago.
1913. Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
1918. Examiner, Federal Trade Commission.
1920. Major role in research for and writing of Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Sugar Supply and Prices.
1921. Economist, Federal Trade Commission, and Professor of Insurance, American University, Washington, D.C.
1931. Economist, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.
1938. Chief Statistician, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.
1952, May 16. Died in Colma, California.

 

1910. Johnson, Edgar Hutchinson.

Thesis Title: The economics of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty.

S.B. Emory College, 1891; S.M. University of Chicago, 1899; A.M. Harvard University, 1903.

1873, February 15. Born in Palmetto, Georgia.
1891-93. Professor of Mathematics, Quitman College, Arkansas.
1893-5.
Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University.
1895-1900. Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Emory College.
1900-16. Professor of History and Political Economy, Emory College.
1915-19. Dean (executive head) of Emory College, Oxford.
1909-10. Assistant in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1919. Founding Dean of School of Business Administration, Emory College, Atlanta.
1931. Dean of School of Business Administration, and Professor of Economics, Emory University, Emory University, Ga.
1938. Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Business Administration, Emory University, Emory University, Ga.
1944, September 11. Died in Decatur, Georgia.

 

1912. Lippincott, Isaac.

Thesis Title: The Industrial History of the Ohio Valley to 1860.
Published as A History of Manufactures in the Ohio Valley to the Year 1860.

A.B. Harvard University, 1902; A.M. Washington University, 1908.

1879, May 20. Born in Villa Ridge, Illinois.
1913.
Teacher, Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo. [about six years]
1921. 
Professor of Economic Resources, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
1938-47. Full Professor of Economic Resources, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
1959, October 27. Died.

 

1913. Magee, James Dysart.

Thesis Title: Money and prices: a statistical study of price movements.

A.B. Des Moines College, 1902; A.M. University of Chicago, 1913.

1881, August 22. Morrisdale Mines, Pennsylvania.
1910. 
Instructor of Economics, Western Reserve University.
1917. Professor, University of Cincinnati
1921. Associate Professor of Economics, New York University, New York, N.Y.
1931. Professor of Economics and Head of Department, New York University, New York, N.Y.
1938. Professor of Economics, New York University, New York, N.Y.
1948, April 6. Died in Cleveland, Ohio.

 

1914. Donald, William John Alexander.

Thesis Title: The history of the Canadian iron and steel industry.
Publication: The Canadian Iron and Steel Industry, A Study in the Economic History of a Protected Industry. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. (Honorable Mention, Hart, Schaffner & Marx Prize Essay (1913) XIX)

A.B. McMaster University, 1910.

1890, April 29. Born in Plympton, Ontario.
1911-12.
Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
-1917. Lecturer in economics, McMaster University.
1921. Managing Director, National Personnel Association, New York, N.Y.
1931. Managing Director, American Management Association, New York, N.Y.
1938. Managing Director, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, New York, N.Y.
1955. Retired.
1959. Management research advisery council of the Small Business Administration.
1962, August 12. New York City.

 

1914. Moulton, Harold Glenn.

Thesis Title: Waterways vs. railways.
Publication:  Waterways versus Railways, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1914.

Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1907.

1883, November 7. Born in Rose Lake Township (later LeRoy), Michigan.
1903-5.
 Student, Albion College.
1905-7. Student, University of Chicago.
1908-1909. Teacher at Evanston Academy.
1909-10. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1910. Travelling Fellow.
1910-14. Assistant and instructor in political economy at the University of Chicago.
1914-18. Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1918-22. Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1922. Professor  of Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1921. Head of the Institute of Economics, Washington, D.C.
1927-52. President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
1952. Retirement. Brookings President emeritus.
1965, December 14. Died in Charles Town, West Virginia.

 

1915. MacGibbon, Duncan Alexander.

Thesis Title: Railway rates and the Canadian Railway Commission.
Publication: Railway Rates and the Canadian Railway Commission, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. Hart, Schaffner and Marx Essay winner in 1916.

B.A. McMaster University, 1908; M.A: McMaster University, 1911.

1882, March 12. Born in Lochaber Bay, Quebec.
1908. 
Newspaper reporter in Ottawa.
1907-15. Professor of economics at Brandon College, Manitoba.
1916. Hart, Schaffner and Marx Essay winner.
1917-18. Lecturer in political economy at McMaster University.
1920-29. Professor of economics in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Alberta.
1921. Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
1929-49. Member of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1949-55. Professor of political economy at the University of New Brunswick.
1969, October 10. Died in Hamilton, Ontario.

 

1915. Nourse, Edwin Griswold.

Thesis Title: A study in market mechanism as a factor in price determination.
Publication: The Chicago Produce Market, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Honorable mention awarded in 1915 Hart, Schaffner & Marx Essay Prize.

A.B. Cornell University, 1906.

1883, May 20. Born in Lockport, New York.
Taught high school for two years (Ogden, Utah) after graduating from Cornell.
1909-10. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
1910-12. University of South Dakota
1915-18. University of Arkansas.
1918-21. 
Professor of Agricultural Economics, Iowa State Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa.
1922. Joins newly established Institute of Economics in Washington, D.C.
1931. Director of Research, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
1929-42. Director, Institute of Economics, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
1942-46. Vice President of Brookings.
1942. President of the American Economic Association.
1942-45. Chairman of the Social Science Research Council.
1946-48. Council of Economic Advisers (chairman), Washington, D.C.
1974, April 7. Died in the District of Columbia.

 

1917. Garver, Frederic Benjamin.

Thesis Title: The subvention in the state finances of Pennsylvania.
Published: The Subvention in the State Finances of Pennsylvania. Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Company, 1919.

A.B. University of Nebraska, 1909.

1884, November 2. Born in Fairfield, Nebraska.
1909-10.
Graduate student, University of Wisconsin.
1910-11. Fellow in Politicial Economy, University of Chicago.
1912. Harvard.
1912-14. Instructor, University of Chicago.
1914-19. Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
1919-21. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
1921-50. Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
1950, February 22. Died, Hennepin County, Minnesota.

 

1918. Slichter, Sumner Huber.

Thesis Title: The turnover of factory labor.
Publication: The Turnover of Factory Labor. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1919.

A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1913; M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1914.

1892, January 8. Born in Madison, Wisconsin.
1916-17.
Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
Princeton.
1918-19. Instructor, Princeton University.
1920-30. Assistant, Associate, Full Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1930-59. Professor of Business Economics, Harvard Business School. Harvard University, Boston, Mass.
1935. Department of Economics, Harvard University.
1936-. Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University.
1940-59. Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University.
1941. President, American Economic Association.
1959, Sept 27. Died in Boston.

 

1920. Bonnett, Clarence Elmore.

Thesis Title: Employers’ associations in the United States.
Published: Employers’ Associations in the United States: A Study of Typical Associations. New York: Macmillan, 1922.

B.S. University of Missouri, 1908; B.A. University of Missouri, 1909.

1885, January 9. Born in Tina, Missouri.
1912-13. Fellow, University of Chicago.
1918. Research Expert, War Trade Board, Washington, D.C.
1921.
Professor of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
1931. Professor of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
1938. Professor of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
1965, February 17. Died in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

 

1920. Innis, Harold Adams.

Thesis Title: History of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Publication: A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1923.

A.B. McMaster University, 1916; A.M. McMaster University, 1918.

1894, November 5. Born in Otterville, Ontario, Canada.
1920-23.
 Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Toronto.
1924-29. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.
1929-36. Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
1936-52. Professor Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
1937-52. Fifth Head of the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
1937. President of the Canadian Political Science Association
1942. President of the Economic History Association.
1947-52. Dean of School of Graduate Studies.
1949. Beit Lecturer in Oxford University and Stamp Memorial Lectuer in the University of London.
1951. Chairman of a President’s Committee on the Humanities.
1952. 54th President of the American Economic Association.
1952, November 8. Died in Toronto, Canada.

 

1920. Kyrk, Hazel.

Thesis Title: The consumer’s guidance of economic activity.
Winner of first prize in Hart, Schaffner & Marx competition for 1921. Published as: A Theory of Consumption. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.

Ph.B. Ohio Wesleyan University, 1906.

1886, November 19. Born in Ashley, Ohio.
As a student at Ohio Wesleyan, Kyrk worked as “mother’s helper” for the  family of Professor Leon Carroll Marshall (who went on to become a member of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Chicago in 1906).
1906-08. Teacher, Ashley (Ohio) High School
1908-11. Student. University of Chicago.
1911. Instructor in Economics, Iowa State College.
1911-12. Instructor in Economics, Wellesley College, 1911-12.
1912-13. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1914. Assistant, University of Chicago.
1914-17. Instructor, Oberlin College.
1918. Assistant, University of Chicago.
1918. Promoted to Assistant Professor, Oberlin College.
1919-20. Leave of absence to complete dissertation.
1919. Travel to London to do statistical work for the Allied Maritime Transport Council.
1921. Resigns from Oberlin College.
1923. Research assistant, University of Chicago.
1923-4. Food Research Institute at Stanford.
1924. Bryn Mawr Summer School for Working Women.
1924-5. Professor of Economic Science and Household Administration, Iowa State College.
1925. Assistant Professor of Home Economics, University of Chicago.
1926-27. Associate Professor of Home Economics, University of Chicago.
1929. Joint appointment in Economics and Home Economics, University of Chicago
1928-41. Associate Professor of Home Economics and Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1941-54 Full Professor of Home Economics and Economics, University of Chicago.
1957, August 5. Died in Brattleboro, Vermont.

 

1920. Mittelman, Edward Becker.

Thesis Title: History of trade unionism, 1833-1839.
Related Publication. Trade Unionism (1833-1839). In John R. Commons et al., History of Labour in the United States, Vol. I, Part III. New York: Macmillan, 1918. Pp. 333-484.

A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1914.

1890, June 5. Born in Lublin, Poland.
1917. Collaborator in Economic History, University of Illinois.
1921.
 Instructor in Economics and Sociology, Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore.
1931. Associate Professor of Economics, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Ore.
1936. Moved to Washington, D.C.
1938. Consultant in Economics, Railroad Retirement Board, Washington, D.C.
1942. War Production Board.
1946-. Chief economist for International Association of Machinists.
1949, September 25. Died in New York City.

 

1921. Copeland, Morris Albert.

Thesis Title: Some phases of institutional value theory.
Abstract (9 pages).

A.B. Amherst College, 1917.

1895, August 6. Born in Rochester, New York.
1917-18.
Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago
1919-20. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago
1921-25. Instructor in Political Economy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1925-28. Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1927-29. Leave of absence.
1928-1930. Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1930-36. Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1933-35. Leave of absence.
1933-39. Executive Secretary, Central Statistical Board, Washington, D.C.
1939-40. Director of research, Bureau of the Budget.
1940-44. Chief of munitions branch, War Production Board.
1944-59. National Bureau of Economic Research.
1950-51. Fulbright Lecturer, Delhi School of Econmics, India.
1952. A Study of Money Flows in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). [Flow of funds]
1954. Visiting professor at Columbia University.
1957. President, American Economic Association
1957-65. Robert J. Thorne professor of economics, Cornell University.
1966-67. Visiting Professor, University of Missouri.
1967-71. Visiting Professor, State University New York at Albany.
1989, May 4. Died in Sarasota, Florida.

 

1921. Goodrich, Carter Lyman.

Thesis Title: The frontier of control, a study in British workshop politics.
Publication: The Frontier of Control, a Study in British Workshop Politics. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921.

A.B. Amherst College, 1918.


1897, May 10.
Born in Plainfield, N.J.
1919-21
. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago
1921. Economist, c/o Memorial Fellowship Committee, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
1921-22. Scholar and Fellow of Amherst College.
1923-24. Scholar and Fellow of Amherst College.
1924-31. Assistant Professor of Economics (first appointment), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1928-45. Member of the League of Nations delegation on the economic depression.
1931-63. Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1931-34. Member of Board of Editors, American Economic Review.
1936. Consultant to the Resettlement Administration.
1937. Consultant to the Social Security Board.
1941.  Special assistant to the American Ambassador to Britain.
1937-40. Executive Committee, American Economic Association.
1936-46. United States member of the governing body of the International Labor Office, Chairman (1939-1945).
1946. Vice President of the American Economic Association.
1948-51. Consultant to the United Nations.
1949-50. Vice President of the Economic History Association.
1952-53. Special representative to Bolivia for the Secretary General of the United Nations.
1954-56. President of the Economic History Association.
1955-56. Chief of the United Nations economic survey mission in Vietnam.
1963-71. Mellon professor of history and professor of economics, University of Pittsburgh.
1971, April 7. Died in Mexico City, Mexico.

 

1921. Lyon, Leverett Samuel.

Thesis Title: A functional approach to social-economic data.
Preprinted from Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 7 (July, 1920)

Beloit College, Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1910; A.M. University of Chicago, 1919; LL.B. Kent College of Law, 1915.

1885, December 14. Born near Sollitt, Will County, Illinois.
1910-15 (ca). Taught high-school in Joliet while attending evening classes at Kent College of Law in Chicago.
1916-19.
 Instructor in Commercial Organization in the School of Commerce and Administration. University of Chicago.
1920-22. Assistant Professor of Commercial Organization in the School of Commerce and Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1923. Associate Professor, University of Chicago.
1923-25. Dean of the School of Commerce and Finance, Washington University, St. Louis.
1925. Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government.
1929. United States delegate to the International Congress on Business Education at Amsterdam.
1929-32. The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
1932-39. Executive Vice-President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
1934. Deputy assistant administrator for fair trade practice policy in the National Recovery Administration.
1934. United States delegate to the International Congress on Business Education at London.
1939-54. Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Association of Commerce & Industry.
1954-56. Chairman of the Chicago Home Rule commission.
1959, September 8. Died in Chicago.

 

1921. Splawn, Walter Marshall William.

Thesis Title: The Railroad Commission of Texas.
Cf. note: “Reproduction Cost as a Basis of Valuation” in Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 1921), pp. 161-64 and “Valuation and Rate Regulation by the Railroad Commission of Texas” in Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 31, No. 5 (October, 1923), pp. 675-707.

A.B. Decatur College; A.B. Baylor University, 1906; A.B. Yale, 1908; Summer 1908, University of Chicago; A.M. Yale 1914.

1883, June 16. Born in Arlington Texas.
1910-12. Taught social science at Baylor College.
1912-15. Practiced law in Fort Worth.
1916-19. Taught social science at Baylor University.
1919-28. Member of the economics faculty of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
1923-24. Texas state Railroad Commission.
1924-27. President of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
1927. Referee on the War Claims Commission.
1929-34. Dean of the Graduate School and School of the Political Sciences of the American University, Washington, D.C.
1934-53. Member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C. (also served terms as Chairman)
1963, January 17. Died in Washington, D.C..

 

1922. Stehman, Jonas Warren.

Thesis Title: The financial history of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Publication: The Financial History of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925.

B.A. Lebanon Valley College, 1909; M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1910.

1887, October 13. Born in Pennsylvania.
1913-15.
Student at Harvard University.
1931. Professor of Finance, School of Business Administration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
1938. Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
1978, June 3. Died in St Paul, Minnesota.

 

1922. Wright, Helen Russell.

Thesis Title: The political labour movement in Great Britain, 1880-1914.

A.B. Smith College, 1912.

1891, February 26. Born in Glenwood, Iowa.
1920-21
. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
Staff member, Brookings Graduate Institution of Economics, Washington, D.C.
1928. Joins University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration.
1931. Associate Professor of Social Economy, Graduate School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1938. Professor and Assistant Dean of the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1941-1956. Dean of the Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.
1950-56. Editor of the Social Service Review.
1957-58. Chief of a technical assistance team of the Council on Social Work Education to assist the development of the schools of social work in India.
Part-time teaching at the University of Southern California.
1969, August 14. Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California.

 

1924. Foth, Joseph Henry.

Thesis Title: The influence of trade associations on business.

A.B. University of Oklahoma, 1913; A.M. University of Oklahoma, 1914.

1888, May 28. Born in Whitewater, Kansas.
1915-22. Professor of Economics in Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
1922-36.
Professor of Economics, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. [asked to resign because of the “demonstrated ineffectiveness of certain aspects of your professional work”]
1936-37. Leader in forums sponsored by United States Commissioner of Education (Wichita, Milwaukee, Portland (oregon), Seattle).
1937-39. Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Business Administration, Washburn College, Topeka, Kan.
1939-1941. Executive, director of Citizens League of Kansas City.
1941-43. O.P.A. information executive for Kansas.
1942. Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kansas.
1943. Professor of economics and director of student employment, Washburn Municipal University.
1945-.
Head of Department of Economics and Business Administration, Washburn Municipal University.
1977, January 29. Died in Shawnee County, Kansas.

 

1924. Moffat, James Ernest.

Thesis Title: The theory of diminishing returns: a history and criticism.

A.B. McMaster University, 1914; A.M. University of Chicago, 1916.

1883, August 26. Born in Cambray, Ontario, Canada.
1919. 
Instructor in Economics and Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
1923-24. London School of Economics.
1931.
 Professor of Economics and Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
1938. Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
1957, January 9. Died in Bloomington, Indiana.

 

1924. Powell, Leona Margaret.

Thesis Title: A history of the United Typothetae of America, with especial reference to labor policy.

A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University, 1905.

1884, July 19. Born in Grand Rapids, Ohio.
1916-17.
Assistant in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1923. Bureau of Industrial Relations of the United Typothetae of America.
1931. Managing Editor, Handbook of Business Administration, American
Management Association, New York, N.Y.
1938. Manager, Bureau of Research and Information, American Management Association, New York, N.Y.
1971, September 27. Died in Delaware, Ohio.

 

1924. Valgren, Victor Nelson.

Thesis Title: Farmers’ mutual fire insurance in the United States.
Published in 1924 by University of Chicago Press. A review of Valgren’s work on agricultural insurance.

B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College, 1905; M.A. University of Minnesota, 1909.

1876, June 30. Born in Sweden. Came to U.S. at age six.
1910-11. Instructor in Political Economy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
1912. Instructor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1914-15.  Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
1915. Investigator in Agricultural Insurance, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
1921. Associate Agricultural Economist,  U. S. Department of Agriculture.
1931.
 Senior Agricultural Economist, Farm Credit Administration, Washington, D.C.
1935. Left the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to join the Farm Credit Administration.
1938. Principal Agricultural Economist, Farm Credit Administration, Washington, D.C.
1944. Rejoined Division of Agricultural Finance in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to head up the insurance research work of the division.
1946. Retired.
1963, April 11. Died at Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

 

1925. Alexander, Ralph Samuel.

Thesis Title: Some phases of allied merchandising in the United States.

Ph.B. Wooster College, 1916.

1893, February 17. Born in Kingman, Kansas.
1920-22. Instructor in industrial economics, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1922-26. Lecturer in business, Columbia University.
1926-44. Assistant Professor of Marketing. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1944-[?]. Associate Professor of Marketing, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1961. Retired from Columbia University.

Biography: Journal of Marketing, Vol. 31 (October, 1967), pp. 67-68.

 

1925. Cooper, Ly[s]le Winston.

Thesis Title: Economic policies and theories of the American Federation of Labor.

B.A., Colorado College, 1918.

1895, December 30. Born in St. John, Kansas.
1920-21. Student at University of California, Berkeley.
1923. Student at the University of Wisconsin.
1931. Professor of Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.
1938. Industrial Economist, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C.
1942. Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration.
1962, October 11. Died in Lombard, Illinois.

 

1925. Fitzgerald, James Anderson.

Thesis Title: The relations of a bank with its customers.

A.B. Georgetown, 1901; A.M. 1907.

1883, April 1. Born in Wolf Creek, West Virginia.
1931.
Professor of Business Administration, and Dean of the School of Business Administration, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
1938. Professor of Banking and Insurance, and Dean of the School of Business Administration, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
1963, January 11. Died in Austin, Texas.

 

1925. Logan, Harold Amos.

Thesis Title: A history of trade-union organization in Canada.

A.B. Acadia University, 1912; A.B. Yale University, 1913.

1889, April 25. Born in West Amherst,http://www.jstor.org/stable/134623 Nova Scotia.
1913-15. Instructor in Mathematics and English, Columbia College, New Westminster, B.C.
1916-17.
Instructor in History and Economics, Purdue University.
1917-1919. Military service. 6th Siege Battery in France, then in Army of Occupation on the Rhine.
1919-21. 
Instructor in Economics and Sociology, Brandon College, University of Manitoba.
1922-23.
Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago
1924-29.
Professor of Economics and Sociology, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia.
1929-30. Associate Professor at University of Western Ontario.
1931 [?]-38. Professor and Head of Department of Economics and Political Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
1938-42. Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto.
1942-55. Professor of Economics, University of Toronto.
1944. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.
1979, April 12. Died in Palmerston, Ontario.

Obituary: Mark K. Inman, “In Memoriam: Harold Amos Logan, 1889-1979”, The Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Feb., 1980), pp. 123-124.

 

1925. Montgomery, Royal Ewert.

Thesis Title: Industrial relations in the Chicago building trades.
Published: 1927.

Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1921; A.M. University of Chicago, 1923.

1896, May 6. Born in Moline, Illinois.
1918-19. Military service: Army military intelligence.
1921-22. Instructor in the University of Missouri.
1922-27. Assistant and instructor in the University of Chicago.
1927-29. Associate Professor in the University of Texas.
1929-36.
 Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1937-1964. Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1938.  Staff member, Brookings Institution.
1938-1941. Editorial Board of The American Economic Review.
1940-45. Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor.
1942-45. Arbitrator and public panel member of the National War Labor Board.
1947-. Arbitrator on the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
1966, June 13. Died in Ithaca, New York.

 

1925. Warne, Colston Estey.

Thesis Title: The consumers’ co-operative movement in Illinois.

A.B. Cornell University, 1920; M.A., Cornell University, 1921.

1900, August 14. Born in Romulus, New York.
1919-20. Assistant in Economics, Cornell University.
1921-22. University of Pittsburgh.
1922-25.
Instructor of economics, University of Chicago.
1925-26. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Denver.
1926-30. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh.
1930-42.
Associate Professor of Economics, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
1936-79. A co-founder and president of the board of directors of the Consumers Union [the group that publishes Consumer Reports]
1960-70. President of the International Organization of Consumers Unions.
1942-70. Professor of Economics, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
1987, May 20. Died in Beford, Massachusetts.

Obituary: New York Times, May 21, 1987.

 

1926. Coon, Shirley Jay.

Thesis Title: The economic development of Missoula, Mont.

A.B., Beloit College, 1909; M.A., Ohio State University, 1915.

1927- Professor of Business Administration, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
1931.
Professor of Economics; Dean of the College of Business Administration, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
1935, Summer Quarter. Offered courses in “Contemporary Economic Problems” and “History of Economic Thought” at Stanford.
1938. Professor of Economics and Dean of the College of Economics and Business, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
1938. Died in Seattle, Washington.

 

1926. Cummings, Joseph Earl.

Thesis Title: Economic aspects of railway consolidation in the West.

B.A. (in Education) University of Minnesota, 1915; A.M. University of Minnesota, 1916.

1889, July 3. Born in Verdi, Minnesota.
1919/20.
Instructor of Economics, University of Minnesota.
1927, May 20. Died in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

 

1926. Curtis, Clifford Austin.

Thesis Title: The Canadian banking system, 1910-25.

B.A. University of Toronto, 1922.

1899, November 23. Born in Victoria County, Ontario.
1927-
Queen’s University.
1931. Associate Professor of Economics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1938. Professor of Economics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1981. Died in Kingston, Ontario.

 

1926. Dummeier, Edwin F.

Thesis Title: The marketing of Pacific coast fruits in Chicago.

A.B. Lousiana State University, 1918; M.A. University of Colorado, 1921.

1887, April 4. Born in Metropolis, Illinois.
1917. Principal of High School, Webster Parish, Louisiana.
1926-46. Professor of Economics, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash.
1946, June 17. Died in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

1926. Jensen, Jens Peter.

Thesis Title: The general property tax.

A.B. Dakota Wesleyan University, 1913; A.M. University of Minnesota, 1917.

1883, April 8. Born in Trustrup, Denmark.
1900. Emigrated to U.S.
1917-18. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1918-19. Taught at Beloit College.
1919. Instructor, University of Chicago.
1919-21. Assistant Professor of Economics and Commerce. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.
1921-. Associate Professor of Economics and Commerce. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.
1924. Problems of Public Finance. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
1930-31 (Visiting) Associate professor of economics, University of Chicago.
1931. Professor of Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.
1937. Government Finance. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
1938. Professor of Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.
1942, August 26. Died in Brush, Colorado.

Obituary:  In Memoriam: Jens P. Jensen, 1883-1942 by John Ise in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Apr., 1943), pp. 391-392.

 

1926. Leland, Simeon Elbridge.

Thesis Title: The classified property tax in the United States.

A.B. DePauw University, 1918. A.M. University of Kentucky.

1897, September 2. Born in Madison Indiana.
1920-24.
Assistant professor of economics, University of Kentucky.
1924-26. Associate Professor of economics, University of Kentucky.
1926-28. Professor of economics, University of Kentucky.
1928-31. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
1931-38. Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
1938-46. Professor of Government Finance, University of Chicago.
1933-40. Member of the Illinois Tax Committee.
1935-36.  National Resource Board, consultant.
1936-40. Chairman, Illinois Tax Commission, Chicago, Ill.
1939. Tennessee Valley Authority, consultant.
1939. Special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury.
1940. Budget Bureau, consultant.
1940-46. Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
1946-. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University.
1972, December 7. Died in Evanston, Illinois.

Biographical Note: Guide to the Simeon E. Leland Papers, University of Chicago Library.

 

1926. Wolf, Harry DeMerle.

Thesis Title: The Railroad Labor Board.
Publication: The Railroad Labor Board. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927.

B.S. Kansas State Teachers College, 1922; A. M. University of Chicago, 1923.

1895, March 14. Born in Sheldon, Illinois.
1927. Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
1928-1934.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
1934-60. Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
1960, June 8. Died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.