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SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910) , American economist, was born, of English parentage, in Paterson, New Jersey
Hartford, Connecticut, graduated at Yale College in 1863, studied French and Hebrew in Geneva in 1863-1864 and divinity and history at Gottingen in 1864-1866, and in 1866-1869 was a tutor at Yale. He was ordained a priest of the Protestant
rector of Calvary Church, New York
rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, New Jersey
to 1909, when he became professor emeritus, he was professor of political and social science at Yale. In 1909 he was president of the American Sociological Society. He died at Englewood, New Jersey, on the 12th of April 191o. He was notable especially as an opponent of protectionism, and was a great teacher. He wrote: History of American Currency (1874); Lectures on the History of Protection in the United States (1875) ; Life of Andrew Jackson (1882), in the " American Statesmen Series "; What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883); Collected Essays in Political and Social Sciences (1885) ; Protectionism (1885) ; Alexander Hamilton (1891), and Robert Morris (1891), in the" Makers of America Series "; The Financier and Finances of the American. Revolution (a vols., 1891) ; A History of Banking in the United States (1896); and Folkways: a Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores and Morals (1907), a valuable sociological summary.End of Article: SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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