Jenks
JEREMIAH WHIPPLE, an American economist and writer, born in St. Clair, Mich., in 1856. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878.
He took post-graduate courses in foreign universities. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 but did not practice law. For several years he taught Greek and Latin and German in Mount Morris College and from 1886 to 1889 was professor of political science and English literature at Knox College . He was professor of political science and social science at In- University from 1889 to 1901, and from that year to 1912 he was professor of political economy at Cornell University. From 1912 to 1917 he was professor of government and director of the division of public affairs in New York University. He became in 1917 research professor of government and public adthat university. From 1899 to 1901 he acted as expert agent of the United States Industrial Commission on Investigation of Trusts and Industrial Combinations in the United States and Europe. He was also special commissioner of the War Department to investigate questions of currency and internal taxation, labor, and police in Oriental countries. He acted as special agent on currency reform in Mexico in 1903. In 1903 and 1904 he acted on the commission to reform currency in China.
From 1907 to 1910 he was a member of the United States Immigration Commission. He was also a member of the High Commission in Nicaragua. In 1906 and 1907 he was president of the American Economic Association . He wrote many works on economic subjects, including "The Trust Problem," (1900) "Report Questions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the ). He also edited many reports of the United States Industrial many books on politics, government, and articles to periodicals in these branches. economic subjects. He contributed many Africa, on the Niger, and on the road JENNE (jen'ne), a town of Central from Sego to Timbuctoo, from which it is distant about 280 miles. It is a place of considerable commercial importance, and in the shops may be seen printed cloth, hardware goods, and other articles of British manufacture. Pop. about ture. Pop. about 10,000.