History of Darke County Ohio United States of America

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Biography of John Rogers Commons

John Rogers Commons, political economist, was born in Darke county, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1862; son of John and Clara (Rogers) Commons. He was educated at Winchester high school, learned the printer's trade, and was graduated at Oberlin college in 1888, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1890. He pursued a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins university, 1888-89; was tutor in political economy at Wesleyan university, 1890-91, associate professor of political economy in Oberlin college, 1891-92, professor of economics and social science, Indiana university, 1892-95, and professor of sociology at Syracuse university, 1895-99. He was associated with Prof. G. W. Knight of Ohio state university in the authorship of the History of Higher Education in Ohio (1890); and also published, besides numerous magazine articles, The Distribution of Wealth (1893); Social Reform and the Church (1894); Proportional Representation (1896); and the chapter on Electric Lighting in Bemis's Municipal Monopolies (1898).

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

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