Farnam, Henry Walcott (1853-1933)

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1853-11-06

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1933-09-05

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New Haven, CT

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Henry W. Farnam was an economist who spent most of his career at Yale University. Farnam studied in Germany, and then returned to the United States to attend Yale for his Bachelor's; he was awarded the first master's degree that Yale offered. Farnam returned to Germany and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Strasbourg in 1878. He became a Latin lecturer at Yale, later becoming the college's first Professor of Political Economy. Farnam did not accept a salary from Yale, donating the funds to Yale projects. He founded the Yale Review and served as its chief editor. Farnam worked to create reform involving the areas of civil service, prohibition, and tobacco use. He supported numerous educational institutions, Indian missionaries, and charitable organizations. Farnam was also President of the American Economic Association, a founder of the American Association for Labor Legislation, and chairman of the State Commission of Sculpture. Farnman donated properties to the Lowell House Settlement in New Haven.

Farnam married Elizabeth Upham Kingsley in 1890. They had one child: Henry Walcott Farnam Jr. Farnam died in 1933.