Tufts, James Hayden (1862-1942)

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WILPF International Summer School (1924)

Jane Addams to James Hayden Tufts, June 3, 1904

Jane Addams to James Hayden Tufts, October 15, 1907

Jane Addams to James Hayden Tufts, February 22, 1908

Jane Addams to James Hayden Tufts, December 16, 1923

James Hayden Tufts to Jane Addams, November 28, 1909

James Hayden Tufts to Jane Addams, December 2, 1914

James Hayden Tufts to Jane Addams, May 1, 1917

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Birth Date

1862-07-09

Death Date

1942-08-05

Birthplace

Monson, Massachusetts

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James H. Tufts was born in 1862. In 1884 he graduated from Amherst College, and in 1889 he graduated from Yale. In 1891, he studied in Germany, and received his PhD from the University of Freiburg in 1892. Tufts then became a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago. From 1906 to 1931 he was the chairman of the philosophy department. He was also an editor of The International Journal of Ethics from 1914 to 1934, and president of the American Philosophy Association.

Tufts married Cynthia H. Whitaker in 1891, and they had two children: Irene Mead and James Warren. In 1920, Cynthia died, and Tufts eventually remarried to Matilde Castro, a professor of education at Bryn Mawr. Tufts died in 1942.