Marion Iola Grater and Roswell Cheney [74-841]

[74-841] MARION IOLA GRATER, b} May 21, 1876; dau Abraham G. and Hannah (Umstead) Grater [74-455]; m June 19, 1901, ROSWELL CHENEY McCREA, Ph.D., b July 30, 1876; s William Henry Harrison and Fredericka (Frankfurter) McCrea. Educator and educational administrator; res., 101 Rockland Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. (1919.)

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Roswell C. McCrea was born at Norristown, Pa. He received the degrees of A.B. from Haverford College in 1897, A.M. from Cornell University in 1900, and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1901. He is an economist, and was acting head of the department of History and Civics at the Eastern Illinois State Normal School from 1901 to 1902; instructor in Economics at Trinity College 1902-1903; professor of Economics and Sociology at Bowdoin College 1903-1907; associate director of New York School of Philanthropy 1907-1911; and professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania 1911-1916. Dr. McCrea was dean of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania from 1912-1916. He was appointed civilian commissioner to act on conscientious objectors in the war department in 1918; and has been commercial examiner for the Chamber of Commerce, State of New York, since Feb., 1919. Dr. McCrea is also secretary of the Academy of Political Sciences.

He is the author of ‘“‘The Humane Movement,” 1910, and a writer on social and economic subjects, mainly for use in technical schools. Since July, 1916, Dr. McCrea has been Professor of Economics at the School of Business, Columbia University. [Who’s Who—1920. |