While it is easy to find extensive biographical information for Irving Fisher, I am posting this item from the second volume of Universities and their Sons (1899), mostly for the picture of this young, newly minted, 32 year-old full professor of political economy at Yale. We see that middle-aged Irving Fisher’s more than passing resemblance to Col. Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame was preceded by boyish good looks of this, his academic youth. Again simply a reminder of the once youthfulness of the residents of our Pantheon of economics. Links are provided to the four works cited in this brief entry for Irving Fisher.
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FISHER, Irving, 1867—
Born in Saugerties, N. Y., 1867; prepared for College at the high schools of Peace Dale, R I., and New Haven, Conn., and at Smith Academy, St. Louis; A.B. Yale, 1888; Ph.D. Yale, 1891; studied in Berlin and Paris, 1893-94; Instructor in Mathematics Yale, 1890; Tutor, 1891; Assistant Professor, 1893; Assistant Professor of Political Economy, 1895; Professor, 1899—
IRVING FISHER, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy at Yale, was born February 27, 1867, at Saugerties, New York, son of the Rev. George Whitefield and Ella (Wescott) Fisher. His early education was acquired in the high schools of Peace Dale, Rhode Island, and New Haven, Connecticut, and at the Smith Academy, St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Yale in 1888 as valedictorian, and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1891. From 1890 to 1895 Mr. Fisher instructed in Mathematics at Yale. He became Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 1893, and Assistant Professor of Political Economy in 1895. The year 1893-1894 he spent in study in Berlin and Paris. He was made full Professor of Political Economy in 1899. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, of the American Economic Association, the British Economic Association, and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Fisher is the author of several books, among others: Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices [Published in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 9, New Haven (1892 to 1895), pp. 1-124], Appreciation and Interest [1896] and Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, [1st ed. 1897] the last named being designed for students of Mathematical Economics and Statistics. He also wrote with Professor Phillips Elements of Geometry [1896]. He was married June 24, 1893, to Margaret Hazard, and has two daughters: Margaret and Caroline Fisher.