Royal Meeker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Royal Meeker, Ph.D. (February 23, 1873-August 16, 1953) was an American statistician, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1898, then studied at Columbia (Ph.D., 1906) and in Europe at the University of Leipzig (1903-04). From 1906 to 1913, he was professor at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania and at Princeton. President Wilson appointed him Commissioner of Labor Statistics in 1913. He served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry from 1923-24, and later joined the faculty of Yale University. He died in New Haven, Connecticut in 1953.

Professor Meeker wrote History of Shipping Subsidies (1905).

[edit] External links

 This biography of an American historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.