CHAPTER LXII 

 EDWARD THOMAS DEVINE, Pn.D, LL.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQOQ TO 



IQIO 



EDWARD THOMAS DEVINE was born in Union, Hardin 

 County, Iowa, May 6, 1867, the son of John and Laura 

 Hall Devine. He obtained his degree of A.B. from Cornell 

 College, Iowa, in 1887, of A.M. in 1890, and of Ph.D. from the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1893. The degree of LL.D. was 

 conferred upon him by Cornell College in 1904. He studied also 

 at the University of Halle, Germany, and was a fellow of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1895. 



Dr. Devine was principal of the schools at Albion, Marshall- 

 town, and Mt. Vernon in Iowa from 1886 to 1890. From 1891 

 to 1896 he was staff lecturer on economics and the secretary of 

 the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. 

 In 1896 he became general secretary of the New York Charity 

 Organization Society, which position he occupied until 1917. 

 He was professor of social economy at Columbia from 1905 to 

 1919, director of the School of Philanthropy from 1904 to 1907, 

 and from 1912 to 1917. Dr. Devine was editor of the Survey 

 from 1897 to 1912, and has been serving in the capacity of asso- 

 ciate editor ever since. He was chief of the Bureau of Refugees 

 and Home Relief under the American Red Cross Commission to 

 France from 1917 to 1918. Prior to these important positions 

 Dr. Devine had been active as special representative of the 

 American Red Cross in charge of relief work in San Francisco in 

 1906 after the earthquake and fire, and he served again as special 

 representative for the American Red Cross in charge of Storm 

 and Flood Relief in Dayton, Ohio, in 1913, and as special agent 

 to the American Embassy in Petrograd in 1916. Because of this 

 great executive ability Dr. Devine was chosen president of the 



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