Jenks
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JEREMIAH CIAH WH American St. Clair, economist and writer t and writ from the University Mich., in 1856. of He 1856. Be He took post - graduate Michigan of Michig universities. He was courses ate courses in 1881 but did not admitted as admitted several years he taught practice Greek practice and German in ght Greek and from 1886 to Mount Morris political science 1889 was 389 was at Knox College and English d English political science and. He was He was pr diana social social scie from that University year to from 1889 to am 1889.to of political economy 1912 he was 912 he was sity. From at Cornell at Corner fessor of government 1912 to 1917 he 1917 be division of public and director and direc University. He affairs in Fairs in N professor of became in 1917 me in 1919 ministration government at and ment and 1899 to 1901 that university he acted as expert 1 as expert the United States Industrial dustrial Co on Investigation of Trusts and custs and E Europe Combinations. He was in the also United special United S sioner of the War so special vestigate questions Department Departmen ternal taxation, labor of currency, and f currency Oriental or, and agent on countries currency. reform He acted in He acted al Mexico in form in M 1903. commission In 1903 to reform and 1904 he acted 204 he acte currency currency i the From United 1907 to 1910 he was a was a me sion. He was States also Immigration migration Commission in a member of member of t 1907 he was president Nicaragua. In Economic Association of the of the Al works on. He wrote He wrot " The Trust economic Problem subjects, ubjecte, in on Certain Economic, " ( 1900); (1900); English and Dutch Questions Questions Orient " ( 1902 Colonies Colonies reports of the). He also edited also edited United States States Ing the Allies in Commission. He compiled and edited compiled and ed many books on politics, government, and economic itics, government, Germany, in He contributed m Saxe - Weimar; articles to periodicals in these branches. subjects. He contributed many als in these branc the Saale, except for its a
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 Jeremiah Whipple Jenks was still living and teaching, and the entry breaks off mid-sentence (the text as reprinted is badly garbled by scanning). Jenks died in 1929, so the life is now closed: born in St. Clair, Michigan, in 1856, professor of political economy at Cornell from 1891 until 1912, then at New York University. The work the entry lists most proudly has had the longest afterlife in immigration policy: Jenks served on the federal Immigration Commission of 1907-10, whose voluminous report supplied the intellectual case for the national-origins quota system enacted in the 1920s, a system not dismantled until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. His currency-reform missions to Mexico, Nicaragua and the East belonged to the age of the gold-exchange standard, an arrangement that did not survive the 1930s.
Written for this edition, 2026.