Charles Franklin Dunbar
Born(1830-07-28)July 28, 1830
Abington, Massachusetts
DiedJanuary 29, 1900(1900-01-29) (aged 69)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
EducationHarvard University
OccupationEconomist
Spouse
Julia Ruggles Copeland
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(m. 1853; died 1899)​
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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.[1][2]

Biography

Economic Essays, title page (1904)

Charles Franklin Dunbar was born in Abington, Massachusetts on July 28, 1830.[3][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.[5]

Charles Franklin Dunbar died at his home in Cambridge on January 29, 1900.[5][6]

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.[7]

Works

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Laughlin, J. Laurence (1900). "Professor Dunbar". Journal of Political Economy. 8 (2): 234–238. doi:10.1086/250658. ISSN 0022-3808.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Dunbar, Charles Franklin, 1830-1900, collector. Charles Franklin Dunbar autograph collection: Guide". Archived from the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Prof Charles F. Dunbar Dead". The Boston Globe. January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Williams, Myron R. (1957). The Story of Phillips Exeter. Phillips Exeter Academy. p. 92. Retrieved March 23, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ 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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