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Wright (CARROLL DAVIDSON an American)

CARROLL DAVIDSON, an American statistician; born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840. After distinguished service in the Civil War, he was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1872-1873; afterward chief of the State Bureau of Statistics, lecturer at Harvard University, United States Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1902, and completed the 11th United States census; was Honorary Professor of Social Economics in the Catholic University of America (in 1895-1903); and Professor of Statistics and Social Economics, Columbian University (1900). Besides numerous addresses, pamphlets, and articles in reviews, he published: "Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Labor" (15 vols. 1873-1888); "Census of Massachusetts" (1876-1877); "The Factory System of the United States" (1882); reports of the United States Commissioner of Labor, including "Industrial Depressions" (1886), "Convict Labor" (1886), "Strikes and Lockouts" (1887), and "Railroad Labor"; "Outline of Practical Sociology" (1899), etc. He was a leading authority on statistics.

He died Feb. 20, 1909.