Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Ely, Richard Theodore 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OE WISCONSIN.
RICHARD THEODORE ELY, Ph. D., LL. D., Director of the School of Economics, 
Political Science and History, and Professor of Political Economy, was born at 
Ripley, Chautauqua county, N. Y., April 13, 1854. Columbia College, A B., 1876; 
A. M., Columbia College, 1879; Ph. D., Heidelberg University, 1879; LL D., 
Hobart College, 1892; Fellow in Letters, Columbia College, 1876-79;  student of 
the universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Geneva, and at the Royal Statistical 
Bureau, Berlin, 1877-80; holder of the chair of Political Economy, Johns 
Hopkins University, 1881-92; secretary of the American Economic Association, 
1885-92; member of the Baltimore Tax Commission, 1885-86; member of the 
Maryland Tax Commission, 1886-88; Professor of Political Economy and Director 
of the School of Economics, Political Science and History in the University of 
Wisconsin, 1892. Publications—French and German Socialism in Modern Times, New 
York, 1883; The Past and the Present of Political Economy, Baltimore, 1884; 
Japanese translation, Japan, 1888; Taxation in American States and Cities, New 
York, 1888; Japanese translation, Tokyo, Japan, 1894; Problems of Today, New 
York, 1888; Social Aspects of Christianity, New York, 1889; also London, 1894; 
An Introduction to Political Economy, New York and London, 1891; Japanese 
translation, Tokyo, Japan, 1890; Outlines of Economics (College edition), New 
York, 1893; Socialism and Social Reform, New York and London, 1894; the Social 
Law of Service, New York, 1896. Frequent contributions to the North American 
Review, the Forum, Harper’s Magazine, the Century, Outlook, Harper’s Weekly, 
the Independent, etc.

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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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