| Name |
Place(s)
of Residence |
Comments
|
Wachsman,
Edward |
California
(San Francisco) |
- 1961 - Becomes teacher, Henry George School
- 1973 - Served on board, Henry George School
of Northern California
|
Wachtel,
Robert |
New
Jersey
(Teaneck) |
- 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
San Francisco, CA
|
Wade,
Minnie R. |
District
of Columbia |
- 1953 - Article, "I Join the Crackpots,"
Henry George News, July (after completion of the Henry
George course)
|
Wadley,
Margil |
California
(Los Angeles) |
- 1966 - Joins faculty, Henry George School
- 1979 - Attended and participated in Joint
Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA, August
- 1987 - Elected Chairman, Henry George
School board
|
Wagnon,
H.D. |
Oregon |
- 1908 - Proposed constitutional amendment
that would have resulted in a Single Tax
|
Wakefield,
George W. |
...
|
- 1926 - Elected to the board, Henry George
Foundation of America
|
Wakefield,
William H.T. |
Kansas.
|
- 1887 - Nominated by United Labor Party as
candidate for U.S. Vice Presidency
|
Wald,
Sara |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1941 - Member, American Alliance to Advance
Freedom
|
Waldauer,
Abe D. |
Tennessee
(Memphis) |
- 19-- - Serving as Secretary, Memphis Single
Tax Association
- 1932 - Address on new Single Tax enclave,
Wall Hill, Mississippi, at Henry George Congress, Memphis
- 1933 - Address on how he became a Single
Taxer, delivered at the Henry George Congress, Chicago; he read
all of Henry George's books as a 13 year old
- 1933 - Address, "The Light That Must
Not Fail," delivered at the Henry George Congress, Chicago,
IL, September
- 1937 - Created plan to "make Memphis
the Georgist capital of the South"
- 1939 - Appointed Collector of Customs for
43rd District
|
Waldbillig,
Brian |
New
York
(New York) |
- 2009 - Serving on staff of the Robert
Schalkenbach Foundation; attended the Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Cleveland, Ohio, August
|
Waldman,
John L. |
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia) |
- 1940 - Member, Henry George School advisory
council
|
Walker,
B. |
Illinois
(Evansville) |
- 1890 - Serving as President, Evansville
Single Tax Association
|
Walker,
C.R. |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1940 - Serving as editor, Cause and
Effect
|
Walker,
C.S. |
...
|
- 1890 - Attended National Conference of
Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York City, September
|
Walker,
Edwin C. |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1890 - founded The Sunrise Club; hosted
discussion on the Single Tax
- 1931 - Died
|
Walker,
Frank A. |
...
|
- 1954 - Completed Henry George course,
Detroit, Michigan
|
Walker,
Frank D. |
California
(Redlands)
(Sacramento) |
Profession:
U.S. Air Force
- 1970s - Studied economics at Claremont
Men's College
- 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
San Francisco, CA
- 1980 - Paper,
The Single
Tax Reconsidered, written
- 1981 - Letter, Georgist Journal,
Spring
- 1982 - Relocated to Sacramento, California
|
Walker,
Henry |
Illinois
(Springfield) |
- 1890 - Participated in Single Tax petition
campaign
|
Walker,
Herman B. |
New
Jersey |
- 1927 - Leter, on natural monopolies and
privileges, Hudson Dispatch. Quote: "Natural
monopolies should be owned and operated for the equal benefit of
all the people."
|
Walker,
Maggie |
California
(San Francisco) |
- 1961 - Becomes teacher, Henry George School
- 1971 - Instructor, Henry George School,
Marin Branch
|
Walker,
Pinkney C.
|
Missouri |
- 1940 - Began teaching at University of
Missouri
- 1955 - Succeeds Harry Gunnison Brown as
dean of School of Economics, University of Missouri
- 1955 - Address on Henry George at Henry
George School, St. Louis, 18 December
- 1959 - Speaker at conference in Columbia,
Missouri, May 17
- 1975 - Retired from teaching
- 1983 - Submitted written testimony before
Missouri House of Representatives to amend the state
constitution to permit LVT as local option
|
Walker,
William E. |
Pennsylvania
(Erie) |
- 1969 - Elected as trustee, Henry George
Foundation
- 1974 - Member, Graded Tax League of
Pennsylvania; served on state advisory board
|
Wallace,
E.H. |
New
Jersey
(S. Orange) |
- 1890 - Serving as President, S. Orange
Single Tax Club
|
Wallace,
Fred S. |
Ohio
(Coshocton) |
- 1871 - Born, on a farm near Springfield,
Ohio
- 189- - Studied law at Ohio Wesleyan
University
- 1890s - Became active supporter of the
Single Tax through correspondence with Rev. Mellor and reading
of The Public
- 1908 - Read Progress and Poverty and
became a strong Single Taxer
- 1910 - Serving as Editor, Daily Tribune,
devoted to the Single Tax and free trade
- 1928 - Editor and publisher of the Coshocton
Ohio Tribune
|
Wallace,
George |
New
York
(New York)
|
- 1910 - Participated in Single Tax
Conference, New York, NY, November
|
Wallace,
Henry L. |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Wallace,
Thomas |
North
Carolina
(Brevard) |
- 2003 - Letter, to the Henry George School,
Philadlephia, expressing a desire to leave a bequest to the
school; responded to by Dan Sullivan, 16 January
|
Wallace,
William J. |
New
Jersey
(Newark) |
- 1861 - Born
- 18xx - Read Progress and Poverty
and became an active supporter of Henry George; later came to
disagree with the strategies of the Single Taxers and joined
with Joseph Darling to start an independent party
- 19xx - Elected President of the Single Tax
Publishing Co. (succeeded by Herman G. Loew)
- 1917 - Assisted Luke North in the Great
Adventure campaign in California
- 1919 - Single Tax Party candidate for U.S.
Senate
- 1924 - Nominee of Commonwealth Land Party
for President
- 1926 - Serving as President, Land and
Freedom
- 1928 - Died (age 67)
|
Wallis,
Louis |
...
|
Profession:
Lecturer in Henry George economics
- 1907 - Book, Sociological Significance
of the Bible
- 1916 - Book, The Struggle for Justice,
published by the University of Chicago Press
- 1917 - Book, An Economic Program for
Zionism
- 1935 - Book, Safeguard Productive
Capital: Tax Ground Values and Untax Industry, published by
Doubleday, Doran & Co.)
- 1935 -
Review
by Joseph Dana Miller of Safeguard Productive Capital,
Land and Freedom, September-October
- 1936 - Book, The Economic Problem
- 1937 - Book, Burning Question: Making
Your Living in a Monopolized World
- 1938 - Made lecture tour of England
- 1938 - Address, "A Square Deal for
Business," to London Rotarians (200 in audience), 10 August
- 1938 - Book, State of War Permanent
Unless --, published by Doubleday Doran Co.
- 1939 - Article,
Ecclesiasticism
and Economics, The Freeman, January
- 1939 - Address, "Lopsided Taxation,"
to Rotary Club, Union City, New Jersey, 12 April
- 1939 - Address, "Lopside Taxation,"
to Rotary Club, Perth Amboy, NJ, 17 May; and at Gardens-Richmond
Hill Club, 22 June
- 1939 - Article,
Political
Escape From Economics, The Freeman, September
- 1939 - Article,
Marxist
Boring -- Review of Revolutionary Christianity, by
Sherwood Eddy, The Freeman
- 1939 - Address, "Lopsided Taxation,"
to Jamaica Long Island Kiwanis Club, 27 September
- 1939 - Address, "Lopsided Taxation,"
to Hoboken Rotary Club, NJ, 17 October; and Rotary Club, S.
Norwalk, CT, 9 October
- 1939 - Address, "Economic Causes for
Anti-Semitism," Rotary Club, Hackensach, NJ, 19 October
- 1940 - Article, "One Solution to the
Problem of Idle Money," Financial World, 10 April
- 1940 - Address, "Lopsided Taxation,"
at Methodist Preachers Monday Meeting Group, New York, 15 April
- 1940 - Address, "Lopsided Taxation,"
at Jersey City Rotary Club, 18 April
- 1940 - Article, "Putting the School
First," The Freeman, June
- 1941 - Book, Secular Bible History
- 1942 - Pamphlet, Winston Churchill on
Economic Justice
- 1946 - Article,
Can
Britain's Labor Government Succeed?, American Journal
of Economics and Sociology, Vol.5, No.2, January, pp.159-167
|
Walsh,
David Ignatius |
Massachusetts
|
- 1872 - Born, 11 November (Leominster,
Massachusetts)
- 1873 - Graduated from Holy Cross University
- 1897 - Graduated from Boston University Law
School
- 1900 - Elected to the Massachusetts House of
Representatives (served to 1901)
- 1919 - Elected to the U.S. Senate (served to
1925)
- 1926 - Elected to the U.S. Senate (served to
1947)
- 1926 - Photograph
- 1932 - Speech,
A
Program to Eliminate the Great Depression, written by
George W. Anderson, read by Senator Walsh into the Senate record
|
Walsh,
Frank P. |
Missouri
(Kansas City) |
- 19-- - Serving as President, Missouri
Homestead Land and Loan League
|
Walsh,
John F. |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1936 - Serving on editorial staff, Henry
George Fellowship News
|
Walsh,
Joseph |
Maine
(Lewiston) |
- 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Lewiston Single
Tax Committee
|
Walsh,
Reta E. |
Massachusetts
(Boston) |
- 1940 - Member, Fund Drive Committee, Henry
George School
|
Walsh,
William J. |
New
Jersey
(Elizabeth) |
- 1890 - Active in single tax movement
|
Walstrom,
A.W. |
Ohio
(Cincinnati) |
- 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
|
Walthall,
Edward Walter |
Florida
(Pensacola) |
- 1879 - Born
- 1914 - Introduced to Henry George's ideas
in Jackson, Mississippi by Robert S. Phifer
- 1955 - Letter, Henry George News,
October
- 1958 - Serving on board, Henry George
Foundation
- 1964 - Funded study on LVT in Louisiana
- 1969 - Resigned as trustee, Henry George
Foundation
|
Walton,
Scott |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 198- - Becomes member, Common Ground USA
- 1990 - Hired as part-time assistant to Sam
Venturella at Henry George School
- 1996 - Article, "Looking Forward,"
(with Sue Walton), Georgist Journal, Autumn
- 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Evanston, IL, July
- 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA,
July
- 2008 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2009 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Cleveland, Ohio
|
Walton,
Sue |
Illinois
(Evanston) |
- 1949 - Born, 17 August; Sidney, New York
- 1971 - Earned B.A., History, Keuka College
- 1989 - Introduced to ideas of Henry George
by her husband, Scott, and by Sam Venturella
- 198- - Becomes member, Common Ground USA
- 198- - Hired as administrator for CGO
- 1992 - Elected director, Common Ground USA
- 1996 - Article, "Looking Forward,"
(written with Scott Walton), Georgist Journal, Autumn
- 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
- 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Evanston, IL, July
- 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA,
July
- 2008 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Kansas City, Missouri
- 2009 - Attended Council of Georgist
Organizations conference, Cleveland, Ohio
|
Wang,
George Chi-Tsu |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1954 - Hired as research assistant, Henry
George School, Chicago
- 195- - Earned Ph.D. in economics under H.G.
Brown at University of Illinois
|
Wangemann,
A. |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1911 - Serving as Secretary, Chicago Single
Tax Club
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Warbasse,
James Peter |
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
- 1866 - Born
- 1889 - Graduated from Columbia College of
Physicians and Surgeons
- 190x - Became an active socialist and
anarchist
- 1923 - Book, Cooperative Democracy,
published
- 1928 - Book, What Is Cooperation?
published by The Vanguard Press, New York;
reviewed
by Joseph Dana Miller, Land and Freedom,
January-February
- 1930s - Served on the Consumer Board of the
National Recovery Administration
- 1946 - Book, The Corporate Way, A
Method of World Reconstruction, published
- 1957 - Died
|
Ward,
Frances Avery |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Ward,
I.F. |
New
York
(Wyoming) |
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Ward,
Lydie Avery Coonley |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Ward,
Walter |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1938 - Instructor, Henry George School
|
Ware,
Hamilton D. |
Delaware
(Arden) |
- 1959 - Trustee, Arden, Delaware
- 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
|
Warmington,
W.H. |
Minnesota
(Minneapolis) |
- 1940 - Extension secretary, Henry George
School
|
Warner,
John de Witt |
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
- 18xx - Born, Chenango County, New York
- 1882 - Served as the principal of sevferal
rural schools (thru 1887)
- 188x - Moved to New York City; graduated
Columbia Law School (Albany)
- 1887 - Founded the Reform Club. Frequent
contributor to the Journal of Muncipal Affairs
- 1890 - Member, Brooklyn Single Tax Club
- 1890 - Address, "The Liberation of
Personal Property from Taxation" delivered at the Manhattan
Single Tax Club
- 1890 - Elected to U.S. House of
Representatives (a "limited single taxer")
- 1893 - Article, "The Currency Famine
of 1893."
- 1902 - Appointed Commissioner of Parks for
Manhattan and Staten Island
- 1903 - Described the Williamsburg Bridge in
New York as a "surrender of the City Beautiful to the City
Vulgar."
|
Warren,
Fiske |
Massachusetts
Harvard |
- 1862 - Born, Waltham, Massachusetts
- 1884 - Graduated from Harvard University;
later studied law in England
- 1890s - Becomes active in Single Tax
campaign
- 1909 - First read Progress and Poverty
- 1909-1921 - Found single-tax colonies
- 1912 - Trustee, Single Tax enclave, Tahanto
- 1912 - Co-founded Georgist enclave of
Halidon Village, Maine
- 1917 - Essay,
Where is the
Vanguard of the Single Tax?, the introduction a 1921 book,
Enclaves of Single Tax
- 1927 - Address, "The Value of the
Single Tax Enclave," at the Henry George Club, Pittsburgh,
Pa., 13 May
- 1929 - Attended International Union
conference, Edinburgh, Scotland; address, on the Single Tax
enclaves delivered
- 1929 - Address, on Single Tax colonies,
delivered at the Henry George Foundation of America Congress,
Pittsburgh, PA, September
- 1932 - Address on enclave movement
worldwide delivered at Henry George Congress, Memphis
- 1934 - Elected to the board, Henry George
Foundation of America
- 1938 - Died, 2 February, age 75
|
Warren,
George A. |
District
of Columbia |
- 1943 - Attended annual Henry George Birthday
celebration, Arden, Delaware, 5 September
|
Warren,
W.A. |
Pennsylvania
(Beaver Falls) |
- 1928 - Letter, regarding rising land values
along the Mississippi River due to work by the U.S. Army Corp.
of Engineers (written from Stephnia, Russia), Land and
Freedom, January-February
- 1932 - Working as an engineer in Russia
- 1933 - Delegate to Henry George Congress,
Chicago; recently returned from Russia where he worked as an
engineer
|
Warren,
Willard D. |
Connecticut
(New Haven) |
- 1890 - Serving as President, New Haven Tax
Reform Club
|
Warwick,
T. |
Oregon
(Portland) |
- 1890 - Serving as President, Portland Ballot
REform and Single Tax Club
|
Wasdike,
(Mrs.) |
...
|
- 1982 - Attended International Union
conference, Utrecht, Holland
|
Washburn,
Catherine M. |
New
Jersey
Hackensack |
- 1953 - Article,
Two
Minds With But A Single-Tax, Henry George News,
January (a comparison of Henry George with Patrick Edward Dove)
- 1954 - Article, "Essay in Practical
Georgism," Henry George News, July
- 1955 - Article, "The Fourth 'R',"
Henry George News, February
- 1955 - Article, "William Ogilvie --
Landlord and Scholar," Henry George News, December
- 1956 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Bryn Mawr, PA
- 1956 - Article,
William
Ogilvie -- Decentralist, Henry George News, April
- 1958 - Letter, Henry George News,
October
|
Wasicki,
Victor S. |
Missouri
(St. Louis) |
- 1953 - Article, "The
Interest-Due-to-Savings Theory," Henry George News,
April
- 1954 - Letter, Henry George News,
September; regarding Steve Cord's argument on monopoly income
- 1956 - Letter, Henry George News,
February; regarding money debate
- 1956 - Letter, Henry George News,
April; regarding E.C. Harwood on money
- 1958 - Letter, Henry George News,
January
- 1960 - Letter, Henry George News,
April
- 1961 - Letter, Henry George News,
September
- 1978 - Article, "Karl Marx Again,"
Georgist Journal, Winter
- 1981 - Letter, Georgist Journal,
Spring
- 1982 - Letter, Georgist Journal,
Spring
|
Wassou,
Warren |
Missouri
(Kansas City) |
- 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Kansas City
Single Tax Club
|
Wasserman,
Louis |
California
(San Francisco) |
Professor
of Philosophy and Government, San Francisco State College
- 1964 - Article on LTV in Denmark, published
in American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
San Francisco, CA
|
Wasson,
Elizabeth |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1945 - Letter, regarding U.S. cotton
subsidy, Henry George News, June
|
Waterbury,
R.R. |
... |
- 1917 - Secretary, Oakland Single Tax League
|
Waters,
D. |
New
York
(Rochester) |
- 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Rochester
Single Tax Union
|
Watkins,
Robert B. |
Pennsylvania
(Allegheny County) |
- 1974 - Member, Graded Tax League of
Pennsylvania
|
Watros,
M.V. |
Alabama
(Fairhope) |
- 1935 - Quote: "I
know Henry George well. My most treasured possession is a copy
of 'Protection or Free Trade' which was presented to me by Henry
George himself." Land and Freedom,
January-February
|
Watson,
Claude |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1932 - Joned the Henry George Lecture
Association; began a lecture tour covering Ohio to Nebraska,
Missouri to Minnesota -- "Why Poverty Amidst Plenty?"
- 1933- Address, "Creating a Cooperative
Democracy," delivered at the Milwaukee Theosophical
Society, 8 January
|
Watson,
Hazel |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1940 - Elected director, Henry George
Woman's Club
|
Watterson,
Henry |
Kentucky
(Louisville) |
- 1890s - Owner of newspaper; serialized Henry
George's Protection or Free Trade when first published
|
Watts,
W.J. |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Way,
Eugene W. |
Washington
(Seattle) |
- 19-- - Served on the City Council and in the
state legislature
- 1932 - Reported to an active letter writer
on behalf of the Single Tax
- 1933 - Book, Taxation and Starvation
|
Weaver,
John C. |
Pennsylvania
(Pittsburgh) |
- 1896 - Born, August 10
- 1918 - First heard of Henry George
- 1926 - Founding member and trustee, Henry
George Foundation of America
- 1942 - Article,
Time For An
Emancipation Proclamation, The Freeman, September
- 1943 - Article, "More Ado About
Canterbury," The Freeman, January
- 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
- 1958 - Article,
Strategy vs
Theory on Land-Rent Figures, Henry George News,
February
- 1958 - Attended Henry George Foundation
conference, Pittsburgh, PA; November
- 1958 - Serving on board, Henry George
Foundation
- 1958 - Article, "Pittsburgh Welcomed
Georgists," Henry George News, December
- 1960 - Conducting a public events radio
program called "Allegheny Round Table"
- 1960 - Article, "More on Economic
Rent," Henry George News, November
- 1961 - Becomes acting director following
deaht of Robert C. Bowers
- 1962 - Moderated panel discussion on "Pitsburgh's
Graded Tax," at Henry George Schools conference, Chatham
College, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1974 - Serving as Vice President, Graded
Tax League of Pennsylvania
- 1974 - Letter, regarding
the effects by
Perry Prentice to enlist suppor for land value taxation
from "The Concerned Citizens of Pennsylvania" address
to George Collins in Philadelphia; 13 April
- 1976 - Paper, on Henry George movement in
Pennsylvania, at Henry George Foundation conference, Evanston,
IL, July
- 1977 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
- 1979 - Moved to New York
- 1979 - Photograph
- 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
San Francisco, CA
- 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
New York, NY
- 1983 - Received service award at HGI
meeting, NYC, June 17
- 1985 - Died, November 3, age 89
|
Webber,
W.I. |
Massachusetts
(Sharon) |
- 1890 - Letter, "The Single Tax and the
Farmer," The Advocate, 9 May
|
Webster,
Grant M. |
California
(San Diego) |
- 19-- - One of founders of Henry George
School, San Diego
- 19xx - Served as director, HGS
- 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, San Diego, CA
- 1960 - died, March 9, age 91
|
Weden,
Elmer A. Jr. |
California |
- 1965 - Article, "The Flame Grows
Brighter," Henry George News, August
- 1965 - Serving as President, Henry George
School
- 1965 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Asilomar, CA, July
- 1971 - Moderated a panel on "cities in
crisis," at Henry George Schools conference, San Francisco,
July
- 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
|
Weden,
June |
California
|
- 1960s - Ran for mayor of Marin County (lost
narrowly to Barbar Boxer)
|
Weeks,
Glenn |
California
(San Francisco) |
- 1966 - Joins faculty, Henry George School
- 1971 - Served as President of the board of
the Henry George School, Norther California
- 1974 - Elected trustee, Henry George School
- 1979 - Elected trustee, Henry George
School, NY
|
Weeks,
Harvey |
California
(Del Mar) |
- 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, San Diego, CA
|
Weggener,
Edward L. |
Michigan
(Saginaw) |
- 1890 - Serving as President, Saginaw Single
Tax Club
|
Wehnes,
Frieda |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1940 - Member, staff of The Freeman
|
Weidler,
Charles |
Indiana
(South Bend) |
- 1926 - Candidate for the U.S. House of
Representatives (Democrat)
|
Weiler,
Gladys F. |
California
(San Diego) |
- 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, San Diego, CA
|
Weiler,
J. |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1918 - Letter, Everyman, April, in
which he wrote: "Henry George
gave up his life in a political battle in the hope of advancing
the Single Tax gospel. What is the matter with the gentlemen who
are satisfied with an agitation which degenerates into an appeal
or series of appeals to the stomach instead of to the heart and
mind and conscience of men and women?"
|
Weilgart,
Carol (or Carl?) |
...
|
- 1973 - Served on board, Henry George School
of Northern California
|
Weinberger,
Harry |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1908 - Admitted to the New York bar after
graduation from the New York University Law School
- 19-- - Served as counsel without fee for
Emma Goldman
- 1931 - Participated in a discussion on "The
World Wide Depression Ways Out," conducted by the Foreign
Policy Association, New York; explained the Single Tax to
another speaker (a Professor Hamilton). Quote: "Henry
George's idea of taxing the land, or rather taking the full
rental value of the land and taking off all taxes from industry,
is not a rural form of economics. ...Henry George did have ... a
way out."
- 1931 - Lecture, "The Way Out of Economic Depression,"
Sunrise Club, New York, NY, 16 February
- 1935 - Article,
Dictatorship
or Single Tax, Land and Freedom, January-February
- 1935 -
Review
of Albert Jay Nock's Our Enemy, The State, Land and
Freedom, November-December
- 1938 - Article, "I'd Rather Be Right,"
The Freeman, July
- 1939 - Address, [topic unknown] at Henry
George Centenary, New York, 15 September
- 1940 - Address, "Liberty's Blackout --
the Destruction of Civilizatin," at Dinner-Talk Fest,
Jamaica, Long Island, 18 May
- 1942 -
Review,
"An Agnostic Applauds an Archibishop," of the book,
Christianity and Social Order, written by William
Temple. Land and Freedom, September-October
- 1943 -
Quote, on
Henry George, Land and Freedom, April-May
- 1943 - Address, on Henry George, delivered
at annual Henry George birthday celebration, September
- 1944 - Died, 5 March, age 58
|
Weinberger,
Henry |
New
York
(New York) |
- 19-- - Active in Single Tax movement
|
Weincheimer,
Edgar C. |
California
(Long Beach) |
- 1950s - Instructor, Henry George School
- 1960 - Died. 25 May
|
Weinstein,
Arnold A.
Photograph |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1911 - Born
- 1933 - Graduated New York University School
of Law
- 1937 - First took Henry George courses at
Henry George School, New York, NY
- 1940 - Appointed legal counsel to Henry
George School
- 1952 - Article, "How the Early Dutch
Legislators Dealt With the Housing Shortage," Henry
George News, January
- 1956 - Elected to Board of Trustees, Henry
George School; held positon until 1973
- 1959 - Teacher, Henry George School
- 1960 - Elected Secretary, Henry George
School board, NY
- 1961 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Hartford, Connecticut
- 1962 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1967 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Chicago, Illinois; July
- 1968 - Elected president, Henry George
School, NY
- 1968 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Miami Beach, FL
- 1969 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Chicago, Illinois
- 1970 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Calgary
- 1973 - Attended Conference on the Property
Tax, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; co-sponsored by the Henry George
School and Schools of Economic Science; 4-7 July
- 1979 - Died, 17 December (age 68)
|
Weinstein,
Constance |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
New York, NY
- 1984 - Elected trustee, Henry George
School, NY
- 1999 - Died, May 8
|
Weinstein,
Gregory |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1929 - Letter, regarding his activism from
the late 1890s, Land and Freedom, January-February
|
Weir,
Hamilton D. |
Delaware
(Arden) |
- 1943 - Served as trustee in Arden
- 1955 - Attended the International Union
conference, St. Andrews University, Scotland
|
Weir,
John W. |
Ohio
(Lakewood) |
- 18-- - Born, Pennsylvania
- 19-- - Served as advisory chairman of Henry
George School in Ohio for 8 years
- 1953 - Address on education delivered at
Henry George School conference, Lakeside, Ohio, August
- 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
- 1957 - Died, May
|
Weir,
Robert |
...
|
- 1997 - Paper, "Contested
Constituencies: Henry George's Search for Working-Class Votes,"
at the International Conference on Henry George, Cooper Union,
New York, NY, 1 November
|
Weis,
James A. |
Ohio
(Columbus) |
- 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
|
Weiss,
Madison |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
Philadelphia, PA
|
Weiss,
Nicholas A. (Jr.) |
New
York
(Long Island) |
- 1940 - Teaching Henry George class from his
home
|
Weitendorf,
Matthew J. |
Ohio
(N. Olmsted) |
- 1987 - Letter, Georgist Journal,
Spring
|
Weitman,
Louis L. |
Massachusetts
(Tryingham) |
- 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
|
Weitzman,
Louis I. |
New
Jersey
(Newark)
Massachusetts
(Tyringham) |
- 1898 - Born
- 1940 - Completed Henry George School
courses under Mr. Susskind
- 1944 - Elected to the board, Henry George
School, New Jersey
- 1961 - Attended Henry George School
conference, Hartford, Connecticut
- 1973 - Served as trustee, Henry George
School, New Jersey
- 1976 - Attended Henry George Foundation
conference, Evanston, IL, July
- 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
|
Welcome,
Solon B. |
California
(Los Angeles) |
- 1927 - Book, From Earth's Center
|
Welling,
John P. (Mrs.0 |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1939 - Address, "Why Arm Japan,"
at Henry George Woman's Club, 9 June
|
Welliver,
Earl |
California
(San Diego) |
- 1960 - Teacher, Henry George School
|
Wells,
Barnett |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Wells,
E.R. |
Ohio |
- 1952 - Address, "How a Municipal
Railway Affects San Francisco's Watchdogs of Public Treasury,"
delivered at Henry George School, Dayton
|
Wells,
Frank |
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
- 1867 - Born, 21 July (Woodstock College,
Ontario, Canada)
- 18-- - Family moved to Manitoba
- 1888 - Moved to New York City; worked for
several newspapers
- 1880s - Introduced to Henry George's
writings and became an active supporter as well as a regular
contributor to The Public, the Single Tax Review
and Land and Freedom
- 1933 - Died, 9 March (Brooklyn)
|
Wells,
George V. |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Wells,
Nora |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1949 - Member, Henry George Woman's Club
|
Wells,
Sue |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Welsh,
William Henry |
Pennsylania
(Philadelphia) |
- 1940 - Member, Henry George School advisory
council
|
Welt,
Sylvia |
New
York
(New York) |
- 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
|
Welty,
Dora |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1949 - Member, Henry George Woman's Club
|
Welty,
J.N. |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1918 - Letter, Everyman, April, in
which he wrote: "Right at this
time while men are full of thought of practical democracy is the
time to make a drive for a sample of it. There was never a saner
method proposed than The Great Adventure in California. To get
one state as an object lesson will help more than all the
conventions and resolutions and lectures of decades and decades."
|
Welty,
Maurie E. |
Illinois
(Chicago)
|
- 1936 - Instructor, Henry George School
- 1939 - President, Henry George School
- 1953-1955 - Served as President of the
board, Henry George School
- 1955 - Stepped down from the board of the
Henry George School after 19 years
|
Weltzman,
Louis I. |
New
Jersey
(Newark) |
- 1942 - Paper, "Let's Take Stock of
Ourselves," presented at meeting of Henry George School
faculty
|
Wendel,
Gladys |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1944 - First took the Henry George course
- 1988 - Elected to Henry George School board
- 2003 - Died, June
|
Wendell,
Canada (Dr.) |
Illinois
(Peoria) |
- 1934 - Serving as President, Henry George No
Tax League of Peoria
|
Wendell,
Harriet D.M. |
California
(Santa Monica) |
- 1977 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
- 1978 - Letter regarding strategies to raise
media attention to Proposition 13 inequities, the New LEAF,
August
- 1970 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference,
San Francisco, CA
- 1979 - Despite a reduction in property
taxes due to Proposition 13, she sent the county $592 more than
her new tax bill, advising the tax collected this was her true
land value tax due
|
Wentworth,
Franklin |
Massachusetts
(Boston) |
- 1909 - Participated in the 3rd Sociologial
Conference, Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
- 1932 - Article,
Outwitting
Communism, Land and Freedom, May-June
- 1933 - Address, "The Idea of Progress,"
to the International Association of Electrical Inspectors,
Chicago, IL, Fall
- 1938 - Article, "Who Pays Whose
Premiums?" The Freeman, December
- 1949 - Attended International Union
conference, Swanwick, England
|
Wenzlick,
Roy |
...
|
- 1920s - Received A.B. degree from
Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri; began graduate work at
Princeton University; received a Ph.D. from St. Louis University
- 1928 - Began his work in real estate
research
- 1936 - Book, The Coming Boom in Real
Estate
- 1936 - Article,
Story on
Wenzlick, reprinted from Time Magazine, 25 May
- 1964 - Article,
Land Value as a Percentage of
Total Price of Residences, The Real Estate Analyst
Appraisal Bulletin, 18 September
- 1965 - Principal of Roy Wenzlick
ResearchGroup and Editor of The Real Estate Analyst
- 1965 - Article,
The
Fundamental Differences Between Real Estate and Other
Commodities, The Real Estate Analyst, 19 March
- 1972 -
Interview in the St.
Louis Globe Democracy, 25-26 March
|
Werkheiser,
Don |
California
(San Diego) |
- 1985 - Letter, Fragments, June
|
Werner,
Otto and A.B. |
California
(Ocean Park) |
- 1917 - Letter, Everyman, October, in
support of The Great Adventure campaign
|
Werner,
Percy |
Missouri
(St. Louis) |
Profession:
Attorney
- 1926 - Pamphlet, The functions of a
Lawyer
|
Wernicke,
Waldo J. |
California
(Los Angeles) |
- 1926 - Letter, on the Single Tax experiment
in Sydney, New South Wales, Los Angeles Daily News
- 1931 - Sent letter to the Henry George
Congress, Baltimore; October
- 1938 - Letter, regarding the probable
taxation of air raid shelters, The Freeman, December
|
West,
George E. |
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
- 1888 - Elected President, Brooklyn Single
Tax Club
|
West,
Henry J. |
...
|
- 19-- - Completed courses at Henry George
School, Chicago
- 1954 - Address, "If I Were President,"
delivered to American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1954 - Declared himself a candidate for the
U.S. Presidency
|
Weston,
Louis F. |
Massachusetts
(Cambridge) |
- 1930 - Letter, commenting on Land and
Freedom, January-February
- 1930 - Letter, regarding strategies for
promoting the Single Tax, Land and Freedom, May-June
- 1931 - Letter, commenting on Jackson
Ralston's plan for preparing state constitutional amendments.
Land and Freedom, July-August
- 1933 - Letter, urging Georgists to discard
tax reform as a description of Henry George's reform, Land
and Freedom, May-June
|
Wetherbee,
Bruce E. |
Massachusetts |
- 1984 - Introduced LVT bill in state
legislature
|
Wetstone,
S. |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Wettlaufer,
A.F. |
Michigan
|
- 1890 - Attended National Conference of
Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York, NY, September
|
Weymann,
August |
California
(Los Angeles) |
- 1926 - Reported as recovering from a serious
illness
|
Weymiller,
Eleanor |
California
(San Diego) |
- 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, San Diego, CA
|
Whaley,
George B. |
California
(San Diego) |
- 1890 - Serving as Chairman, Single Tax
County Committee
|
Wheeler,
Fred M. |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
Wheeler,
|
Montana
|
- 1930 - Serving in U.S. Senate; introduced a
resolution to insert excerpts from Henry George's Protectin
or Free Trade into the Congressional Record, March
|
Whelan,
Rodger |
... |
Great-grand
nephew of Rev. Edward McGlynn
- 1945 - Letter, indicating he is working on
a paper on the Single Tax.
|
Whiffle,
A.A. |
Washington
(Wenatchee) |
- 1929 - Letter, regarding farm relief, Land
and Freedom, July-August
|
White,
Arletta |
Michigan
(Detroit) |
- 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Detroit, MI
|
White,
Edward |
Missouri
(Kansas City) |
- 1928 - Arranged speaking engagements for
Single Tax spokespersons
- 1928 - Wrote articles on the transit
situation for the Kansas City Labor News
- 1930 - Letter, urging Single Taxers to avoid
supporting socialist measures, Land and Freedom,
January-February
- 1943 - Wrote to his Congressman
recommending tax simplification
|
White,
Edwin M. |
Massachusetts
(Boston) |
- 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Boston Single
Tax League
- 1926 - Died, 1 July
|
White,
George |
New
Jersey
(Hackensack)
(Long Branch) |
- 1911 - Article, "Land Values and
Taxation," Twentieth Century Magazine; made
available online by Google Books
- 1917 - Active in Single Tax movement
- 1928 -
Letter,
critical of Harry Gunnison Brown's article on the effects of
rent taxation on farmers, Land and Freedom, July-August
- 1930 - Still active (age 75)
|
White,
George |
New
York
(Brooklyn) |
- 1888 - Elected Corresponding Secretary,
Brooklyn Single Tax Club
|
White,
Gordon |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1939 - Instructor, Henry George School
- 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools
conference, Detroit, MI
- 1962 - Member, Henry George School advisory
board
- 1967 - Died, 6 May
|
White,
Horace |
... |
- 1890 - Article challenging Single Tax
publshed, Popular Science Monthly
|
White,
John F. |
Indiana
(Indianapolis) |
- 1942 - Letter, regarding need for publicity
of William Temple's views on Christianity and the Social Order.
Land and Freedom, May-June
|
White,
John Z.
Autobiography |
Illinois
(Chicago) |
- 1854 - Born, 8 August; Oneida County, New
York
- 1860 - Family moved to Kane County,
Illinois
- 1885 - Attended Henry George's public
lecture in Chicago
- 1890 - Attended National Conference of
Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York City, September
- 1903 - Began to speak around the United
States on the Single Tax
- 190- - Lecturer with the Henry George
Lecture Association of Chicago
- 1906 - Article,
The Single Tax, The
Arena, Vol.35, April, pp. 366-372
- 1906 - Photograph
- 1910 - Participated in the Single Tax
Conference, New York, NY, November
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
- 1913 - Active in Colorado campaign for
Single Tax
- 1916 - Served as Vice President, Chicago
SingleTax Club
- 1931 - Elected to the board,
newly-established Single Tax League
- 1935 - Book, Public and Private
Property, published: ...........Chapter
1: On Prpoerty
...........Chapter 2:
Property:
Further Considerations
...........Chapter 3:
Property:
fundamental Public Funcations
...........Chapter 9:
Democracy
- 1935 -
Review
by Walter Fairchild of White's Public and Private Property,
Land and Freedom, July-August
- 1938 - Address, on "economic
sophistries" at the Henry George School graduation, 30
November
- 1939 - Address, [topic unknown] before the
Henry George Fellowhsip, 18 April. Recorded and made into a
phonograph record (copies sold by the Henry George School)
- 1939 - Presided over the Centenary
celebration of Progress & Poverty, Chicago, 1
September
- 1940 - Address, "America's Need of the
Hour," at Henry George School commencement exercises,
Chicago, 5 December
- 1940 - Photograph
- 1943 - Address,
Henry George, the Man,
at YMCA, Chicago, 2 September. This condensed version reprinted
in The Freeman, January
- 1944 - Died, 8 October; age 91
- 1944 -
Remembrances, by
George T. Tideman, John L. Monroe, and Henry L.T. Tideman
- 1966 - Tape-recording of a speech he made
earlier in the century, played at the Henry George School
conference, St. Louis, Missouri
|
White,
J.L. |
Illinois
|
- 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference,
Chicago, Illinois, November
|
| White,
Malcolm |
...
|
- 1940 - Member, staff of The Freeman
|
White,
Paul |
Pennsylvania
(New Castle)
|
- 1938 - Serving as Director, Henry George
Club
|
White,
S. Robert |
California
(San Diego) |
- 19-- - Member, San Diego Single Tax Club
|
White,
Walter J. (Mrs.) |
District
of Columbia |
- 1940 - Elected President, Woman's National
Tax Relief Assocation
|
White,
Warren |
Missouri
(St. Louis) |
- 1951 - Became Chairman of the board, Henry
George School
|
White,
W.E. |
Missouri
(Kansas City) |
- 19-- - Serving as Secretary, Anti-Poverty
Society
|
White,
William Allen |
Kansas
(Emporia) |
|
Whitenach,
Oscar O. |
Colorado
(Denver) |
- 1939 - Editor, Denver Post Open Forum
- 1939 - Letter, regarding his use of
material from The Freeman, November
- 1945 - Letter, regarding labor-saving
machinery, Henry George News, November
|
Whitlock,
Brand |
Illinois
(Chicago)
Ohio
(Toledo) |
Journalist
- 1890s - Supporter of Henry George
- 190- - Elected mayor of Toledo, Ohio
- 1917 - Serving as the U.S. Minister to
Belgium
- 19-- - Book, A Life of Abraham Lincoln
- 1929 - Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion
of Honor by the French government in recognition of relief work
in Belgium
- 1930 - Book, A Life of General Lafayette,
published
- 1934 - Died (age 60) in Cannes, France
- Quote: "The
Single Tax will wait ... for years, since it is fundamental and
mankind never attacks fundamental problems until it ha exhausted
all the superficial ones."
|
Whitman,
John Prott |
...
|
- 1920 - Book, The Sympathy of the People
- 1934 - Book, Utopia Dawns, published
by Utopia Publishing Co., Boston
- 1934 - Articles on Henry George, Christian
Science Monitor
|
Whitmore,
W.R. |
Massachusetts
(Newburyport) |
- 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Marrimac
Assembly
|
Whitney,
Theodore T. (Jr.) |
Massachusetts
(Milton) |
- 1944 - Letter, regarding book Roots in
the Earth by Waring and Teller, published by Harpers, Henry
George News, March
|
Whittingham,
R. (Rev.) |
Maryland
|
- 1890 - Attended National Conference of
Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York City, September
|
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