Devine
EDWARD THOMAS, an American author and lecturer; born in Union, Ia., in 1867. He graduated from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1887, and took post-graduate courses in the United States and in Germany. He was principal of schools in Iowa for several years, and from 1891 to 1896 was staff lecturer on economics for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. He was secretary of the same organization from 1894 to 1896, and from 1896 to 1912 was general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of New York. He was editor of the "Survey" from 1897 to 1912. From 1905 to 1919 he was professor of social economy at Columbia University and was DEVONIAN SYSTEM director of the New York School of Philanthropy from 1904 to 1907.
In 1917 and 1918 he was chief of the Bureau of Refugees and Home Relief under the American Red Cross Commission in France. He represented and directed several Red Cross relief expeditions, including San Francisco in 1906 and Dayton, O., in 1913. He was a member of many economic and educational societies. He wrote "Economics" (1899); "The Practice of Charity" (1901). "Social Forces" (1909); "The Normal Life" (1915); "Disabled Soldiers and Sailors" (1919).