Today we meet the 1924 Ph.D. economic historian Mildred L. Hartsough from the University of Minnesota. She entered government service as an economic analyst during the New Deal. Links to some of her publications are provided below. She died from stomach cancer at age 41. Her husband whom she married in 1937 just two years before her death, David Novick, was a N.Y.U. trained economist and later worked forty years at the RAND Corporation [e.g. his paper on his role in the birth of the Planning Programming Budgeting System, “Beginning of Military Cost Analysis 1950-1961” (March 1988)].
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Fun fact: Mildred L. Hartsough was listed in her college yearbook (University of Minnesota, class of 1919) as having been a member of the Equal Suffrage Club in her junior year.
Research tip: Fellows of the Social Science Research Council, 1925-1951 is a goldmine of biographical and career data for many economists who were supported by the SSRC in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Hartsough, Mildred Lucile
1898. Born March 21 in Sumner, Iowa.
1919. B.A. University of Minnesota.
1921. M.A. University of Minnesota.
1924. Ph.D. University of Minnesota, economic history. Advisor: Norman Scott Brien Gras (Harvard Ph.D.)
1925-27. Instructor in economics and sociology. Smith College.
1927-28. Research fellow, Social Science Research Council.
Fellowship program: study of economic concentration in western Germany and the Rhineland.
1928-29. Assistant professor. Smith College.
1929-32. Associate in research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard.
1934-35. Staff member, Committee on Government Statistics and Information Services.
1935-36. Housing Division, Public Works Administration.
1936-37. National Resources Committee.
1937. Married David Novick (b. 19 Sep 1906 in Easton, PA; d. 5 Nov 1991 in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania)
1937-39. Consumer purchases study, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Staff for the Study of Consumer Purchases: Urban Series
Faith M. Williams. Chief, Cost of Living Division
A. D. H. Kaplan. Director
Bernard Barton. Associate Director for Tabulation
J. M. Hadley. Associate Director, Collection and Field Tabulations
A. C. Rosander. Statistician, Tabular Analysis
Mildred Parten. Associate Director, Sampling and Income Analysis
Mildred Hartsough. Analyst, Expenditure Analysis
Ruth W. Ayres. Field Supervisor for New York City
1939. Assistant director of editorial division, Children’s Bureau.
1939. Died from stomach cancer, December 12 in Arlington, Virginia.
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Publications:
Also see: A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought to 1940 By Kirsten Kara Madden, Janet A. Seiz, Michèle A. Pujol p. 217.
The Twin Cities as a Metropolitan Market: A Regional Study of the Economic Development of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The University of Minnesota, Studies in the Social Sciences, no. 18, 1925.
“Transportation as a Factor in the Development of the Twin Cities.” Minnesota History, vol. 7, no. 3, 1926, pp. 218–32.
JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20160604
“The Concept of Regionalism as Applied to Western Germany,” Proceed. Am. Sociol. Soc. 1929.
Journal of Economic and Business History (Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University), 1929-30. This journal was founded by her thesis advisor, N.S.B. Gras.
“Business Leaders in Cologne in the Nineteenth Century” Feb. 1930, v. 2: 332-52.
“The Rise and Fall of the Stinnes Combine” Feb. 1931, v. 3, no. 2: 272-295.
“Cologne, the Metropolis of Western Germany” August 1931. Vol. 3: 574-601.
“Treatise on Bookkeeping under the Fuggers” May 1932, vol 4: 539-51.
From Canoe to Steel Barge on the Upper Mississippi 1934; Published in Minneapolis for the Upper Mississippi waterway association by the University of Minnesota Press.
Member of technical staff (F. Lorimer, director), The Problems of a Changing Population 1938.
Associate director (A. D. H. Kaplan, director), Urban Study of Consumer Incomes and Expenditures, Bur. Lab. Statis. Bul. 641-649, 1939-42.
BLS Bulletins:
No. 642, 1939. Family Income and Expenditure in Chicago, 1935-36. Vol. II Family Expenditure. Prepared by A. D. H. Kaplan, Faith M. Williams and Mildred Hartsough
No. 643 Family Income and Expenditure in New York City, 1935-36.
Source: For most of the biographical information above, see Fellows of the Social Science Research Council, 1925-1951. p. 159.
Image Source: University of Minnesota, The Gopher 1919, p. 389.