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American economist (1830-1900)
Charles Franklin Dunbar
Born (1830-07-28 ) July 28, 1830Died January 29, 1900(1900-01-29) (aged 69) Education
Harvard University Occupation Economist Spouse
Julia Ruggles Copeland
(
m. ; died
)
Charles Franklin Dunbar (July 28, 1830– January 29, 1900) was an American
economist . He held the first Chair of
Political Economy at the
Harvard University in 1871.
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[2]
Biography
Economic Essays , title page (1904)
Charles Franklin Dunbar was born in
Abington, Massachusetts on July 28, 1830.
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[2] He graduated from
Harvard University in 1851.
[4] From 1885 to 1898 he served as a trustee and later as president of the Board of Trustees of
Phillips Exeter Academy .
He married Julia Ruggles Copeland on November 30, 1853. She died on November 29, 1899.
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Charles Franklin Dunbar died at his home in
Cambridge on January 29, 1900.
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Dunbar Hall, a dormitory on that school's campus, was named after him in 1901, as was its replacement after it was destroyed by fire in 1907.
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Works
References
^ Lamont, Thomas S.; Mason, Edward S. (August 1982). "The Harvard Department of Economics from the Beginning to World War II". The Quarterly Journal of Economics . 97 (3): 384.
doi :
10.2307/1885870 .
JSTOR
1885870 .
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a
b Laughlin, J. Laurence (1900).
"Professor Dunbar" . Journal of Political Economy . 8 (2): 234–238.
doi :
10.1086/250658 .
ISSN
0022-3808 .
^ Hall, Edward H. (June 1900).
"Memoir of Charles Franklin Dunbar" .
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society . XXXIV : 218. Retrieved March 22, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^
"Dunbar, Charles Franklin, 1830-1900, collector. Charles Franklin Dunbar autograph collection: Guide" . Archived from
the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved December 23, 2017 .
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a
b Hall, Edward H. (June 1900).
"Memoir of Charles Franklin Dunbar" .
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society . XXXIV : 228. Retrieved March 22, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
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"Prof Charles F. Dunbar Dead" .
The Boston Globe . January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Williams, Myron R. (1957).
The Story of Phillips Exeter .
Phillips Exeter Academy . p. 92. Retrieved March 23, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^ R., J. H. (1891).
"Review of Laws of the United States Relating to Currency, Finance and Banking, from 1789 to 1891" . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 2 : 106–106.
ISSN
0002-7162 .
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