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WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)

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WELLS, See also:
DAVID
DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)
DAVID See also:
AMES
AMES, FISHER (1758–1808)
AMES, JOSEPH (1689–1759)
AMES, OAKES (1804–1873)
AMES, WILLIAM (1576–1633)
AMES (1828—1898) , See also:

AMERICAN

American economist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

SPRINGFIELD

Springfield, See also:

MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 17th of See also:

JUNE

June 1828. He graduated at See also:

Williams See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1847, was on the editorial See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of the Springfield Republican in 1848, and at that See also:

time invented a See also:

machine for folding See also:

NEWSPAPERS

newspapers and See also:

BOOK

book-sheets. He then removed to See also:

Cambridge, graduated at the See also:

Lawrence Scientific School in 1851, and published in 1850—1865 with See also:

George See also:

BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON (1833– )

Bliss (1793—1873) an See also:

ANNUAL

Annual of Scientific See also:

DISCOVERY

Discovery. In 1866 he patented a See also:

PROCESS

process for preparing textile fabrics. His See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on the See also:

NATIONAL

national See also:

DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt, Our See also:

BURDEN, or BURTHEN

Burden and Our Strength (1864), secured him the See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment in 1865 as chairman of the national See also:

revenue See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission, which laid the basis of scientific See also:

taxation in the See also:

UNITED

United States. In 1866—187o he was See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

COMMISSIONER

commissioner of revenue and published important annual reports; during these years he became an See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of See also:

FREE

free See also:

trade, and he argued that the natural resources of the United States must See also:

lead to See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial supremacy without the artificial assistance of a protective See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff which must produce an uneven development industrially. The creation of a Federal See also:

BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau of See also:

STATISTICS

Statistics in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

Department of the See also:

TREASURY

Treasury was largely due to Wells's See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence. In 1871 he was chairman of the New See also:

York See also:

State Commission on See also:

LOCAL

local taxation which urged the abolition of See also:

PERSONAL

personal taxes, except of moneyed corporations, and the See also:

levy of a tax on the rental value of dwellings to be paid by the occupant; and in 1878 he reported on New York See also:

canal tolls. In 1877 he was See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the American Social See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science Association. He died in See also:

Norwich, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 5th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1898. He edited many scientific See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text-books, and wrote The Creed of the Free Trader (1875), See also:

Robinson Crusoe's See also:

MONEY

Money (1878), Our See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

Merchant Marine (1832) , The Primer of Tariff Reform( 884) , See also:

PRACTICAL

Practical See also:

ECONOMICS

Economics (: 885), Principles of Taxation(' 886) , See also:

RECENT

Recent Economic Changes (1889).

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