Henry George
American political economist and journalist, author of Progress and Poverty
He ran for Mayor of New York City in 1886 as the United Labor Party nominee and again in 1897 as the Jefferson Democracy nominee.[1]
Quick Facts
- Born
- 2 September 1839
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Died
- 29 October 1897
- Place of death
- New York City, New York, U.S.
- Resting place
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- Spouse
- Annie Corsina Fox (1861)
- Children
- 4, including Henry Jr. and Anna
- Political party
- Democratic
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
George was born in Philadelphia to a lower-middle-class family, the second of ten children.[2] His father sent him to the Episcopal Academy, but George left without graduating and his formal education ended at age 14.[2] He first articulated his views on railroad construction in an 1868 article entitled "What the Railroad Will Bring Us"[3] George's most famous work, Progress and Poverty, investigated the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress.[4]
He argued that the economic rent of land should be shared by society through a land value tax.[5][6] George died from a stroke during his 1897 mayoral campaign, and an estimated 100,000 people visited Grand Central Palace to see his face.[7][8] In April 1855, at age 15, George became a foremast boy on the ship Hindoo, which sailed for Melbourne and Calcutta.[2] After arriving in the American West in 1858, George began employment as a type setter in San Francisco that same year.[9]
George married Annie Corsina Fox, who was from Sydney, Australia, on December 3, 1861, after the couple eloped.[10] For four years, from 1871 to 1875, George served as editor of his own newspaper, the San Francisco Daily Evening Post, and also worked for other papers.[11]
What the cited sources add
An online source on patents and copyrights notes that George initially fell into error by confounding patent and copyright rights, which he subsequently acknowledged and corrected in the Standard of June 23, 1888.[12]
References
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dictionary of American Biography, 1st. ed., s.v. "George, Henry," edited by Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, Vol. VII (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931), ; David Montgomery, American National Biography Online, s.v. "George, Henry," February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00261.html Accessed September 3, 20; "American National Biography Online." (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Montgomery, American National Biography Online, s.v. "George, Henry," http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00261.html Accessed September 3, 2011.; George, "What the Railroad Will Bring Us", October 1868; Dictionary of American Biography, s.v. "George, Henry," 213. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "American History: Excerpt from Henry George Progress and Poverty 1879", University of Groningen (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jurgen G. Backhaus, "Henry George's Ingenious Tax: A Contemporary Restatement," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 56, no. 4 (Oct. 1997), 453–458; Henry George, Progress and Poverty, (1879; reprinted, London: Kegan Paul, Tench & Co., 1886), 283–284. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: George, "Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth", Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1879; Lough, "The Last Tax: Henry George and the Social Politics of Land Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era", Academia.edu (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dictionary of American Biography, s. V. "George, Henry," 215.; Montgomery, American National Biography, s.v. "George, Henry," http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00261.html; "Henry George's Death Abroad. London Papers Publish Long Sketches and Comment on His Career", The New York Times, October 30, 1897; New York Times October 30, 1897, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/10/30/105956699.pdf (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gabriel, "Course of American democratic thought", 1946, p. 204 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "American National Biography Online." (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: O'Donnell, "Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age", Columbia University Press, 2015 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Henry George" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Charles A. Barker, "Henry George and the California Background of Progress and Poverty," California Historical Society Quarterly 24, no. 2 (Jun. 1945), 103–104.; Dictionary of American Biography, s.v. "George, Henry," pp. 211–212.; Montgomery, American National Biography Online, s.v. "George, Henry," http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00261.html Accessed September 3, 2011. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Henry George / On Patents and Copyrights", cooperative-individualism.org. facts only, no text reused. cooperative-individualism.org
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