History of Sherman, (Fairfield County) Connecticut United States of America

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Franklin Henry Giddings, economist and sociologist, was born at Sherman, Conn., March 23, 1855; son of the Rev. Edward Jonathan and Rebecca (Fuller) Giddings; grandson of Augustine Jonathan Giddings, and of Revilo Fuller; and a descendant from George Giddings, Ipswich, Mass., 1635, and from Edward Fuller of the Mayflower company. He was graduated form Union in 1877 and engaged in newspaper work, writing articles on politics and economics for the Daily Union and Republican, Springfield, Mass. In 1885 he made an investigation of productive co-operation and profit sharing in the United States, the results of which were published in the seventeenth annual report of the Massachusetts bureau of statistics of labor. In 1888 he accepted the position of resident lecturer on political science at Bryn Mawr college, Pa., where he became associate in political science in 1889, associate professor in 1891, and professor in 1892. He was also lecturer on sociology in Columbia, 1892-94, and in the latter year was advanced to the full chair. He was for three years chairman of the publication committee of the American economic association and later first vice-president of the association, and was a vice-president of the American academy of political and social science from its foundation. He was the first American member of the Institut International de Sociologie (Paris). Union university conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 1897, and Oberlin that of LL.D. in 1900. He is the author of: The Modern Distribution Process (with J. B. Clark 1888); The Principles of Sociology (1896, 3d ed., 1897), which was translated into several languages; The Elements of Sociology (1898); an introduction to Proal's Political Crime (1898), and Democracy and Empire (1900).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Sherman, (Fairfield County) Connecticut

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