The post provides another life/career overview of a Ph.D. alum. Today’s Ph.D. went on to become professor of sociology and statistics at Columbia University, Robert Emmet Chaddock.
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Previous posts at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror
with Chaddock content…
E.R.A. Seligman’s recommendation for Chaddock’s promotion to Associate Professor in 1912.
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Chaddock obituaries by…
Frederick E. Croxton in Journal of the American Statistical Association 36:213 (March, 1941), pp. 116-119.
William F. Ogburn in American Journal of Sociology 46:4 (January, 1941), p. 595.
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Robert E. Chaddock (1879-1940)
1879 born April 16, in Minerva, Ohio
1900 A.B. Wooster College
1900-05. Taught at Wooster College
1906 M.A., Columbia University
1906-08. University Fellow in Sociology, Columbia University
1908 Worked with the boy’s club of the Union Settlement (New York City)
1907-09. Instructor, Columbia University
1908 Ph.D. Columbia University.
1909-11. Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
1911-12. Assistant Professor of Statistics, Columbia University
1912-22. Associate Professor of Statistics, Columbia University
1917-24. Secretary-Treasurer of the American Statistical Association
1925 Publication of Principles and Methods of Statistics.
1922-40. Professor of Sociology and Statistics.
1925 President of the American Statistical Association
1925-1940. Member of the Joint Advisory Committee to the Director of the Census.
1928 Represented the Social Science Research Council as delegate to the International Conference on Population in Paris (July).
1929 LL.D. awarded by Wooster College
1933-36. Member of the Committee on Government Statistics and Informational Services (jointly established by the American Statistical Association and the Social Science Research Council)
1937 Chairman of the Joint Advisory Committee to the Director of the Census
1940 October 21. Death by suicide.
Other memberships
Member of the American Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Problems.
Chairman of the Research Committee, member of the Executive Committee of the Research Bureau of the Welfare Council of New York City.
Consultant statistician of the Commonwealth Fund
Member of the Advisory Council of the Milbank memorial Fund.
Member and Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Research in Medical Economics. Member of the editorial board of the quarterly journal Medical Care.
Fellow of the American Public Health Association
Member of the International Statistical Institute
Member of the American Sociological Society
Member of the Century Club (New York)
Phi Beta Kappa.
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Political Science Faculty Memorial Minute
Columbia University
Dec. 13, 1940
Robert Emmet Chaddock
Professor Robert Emmet Chaddock served his University for over thirty years. Born at Minerva, Ohio, 1879, he took his A.B. at Wooster College in 1900. From the time he first came to Columbia as a graduate student in 1905, his association with the University was broken only for two years, during which he was Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At Columbia he was in turn University Fellow in Sociology, Instructor in Economics, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Associate Professor, and from 1922 until his death Professor of Sociology and Statistics. In these various capacities he fulfilled his duties with unsparing devotion, giving attention to his students, whole-heartedly cooperating with his colleagues, freely participating in various organizations for the advancement of public welfare, and contributing always to the improvement of statistical application to social problems, especially those connected with population and public health. He was the author of numerous articles and reports on these and other subjects, and his work on Principles and Methods of Statistics has given guidance to a large number of students throughout the country. His recognition as a leader in this field was shown by the many calls made upon his services, from the Bureau of the Census, the Milbank Foundation, the Welfare Council of New York City, the Cities Census Committee, and the International Statistical Institute, and other bodies. To these calls Professor Chaddock never failed to respond. He won the regard of all who knew him. His death removes a man who gave himself without limit and without afterthought, to his University, to his family, to the community. His colleagues tender their respectful sympathy to those who intimately mourn for him, his wife and daughter.
Robert M. MacIver
Carlton J. H. Hayes
Roswell C. McCrea
Source: Columbia University Archives. Minutes of the Faculty of Political Science, 1940-1949, p. 881.
Image Source: Robert Emmet Chaddock from Barnard College, Mortarboard, 1919.