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Delos Franklin Wilcox

February 16, 2024

Delos Franklin Wilcox (April 22, 1873 in Ida, Michigan – April 4, 1928[1]) was a United States expert on municipal government.

Biography edit

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1894, having been strongly influenced by John Dewey.[1] He took the degree of Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1896. He edited the Detroit Civic News from 1905 to 1907. From 1907 to 1913 he was chief of the bureau of franchises in the first district of the New York Civil Service Commission. From 1914 to 1917 he was deputy commissioner of the New York department of water supply, gas and electricity. In 1919-20 he served as an advisor to the Federal Electric Railways Commission.[2]

Personal edit

He married Mina Gates in 1898, and four children survived him. He had an orchard at Elk Rapids, Michigan, which he gave much attention in later years.[1]

Works edit

He was a recognized authority on municipal government and wrote extensively on the subject. His works include:

  • Municipal Government in Michigan and Ohio, his Ph.D. thesis (1896)
  • The Study of City Government (1897)
  • Ethical Marriage (1900)
  • The American City (1904)
  • The Government of Great American Cities (1908)
  • Municipal Franchises (2 vols., 1910–11)
  • Great Cities in America: Their Problems and Their Government (1910)[3]
  • Government by all the People (1912)
  • Public Ownership of Public Utilities (1919), with William Bennett Munro, John Martin, and Samuel Orace Dunn
  • Analysis of the Electric Railway Problem (1921)[4]
  • Depreciation in Public Utilities (1925)
  • The Indeterminate Permit in Relation to Home Rule and Public Ownership (1926)
  • The Administration of Municipally Owned Utilities, a pamphlet outlining a work in progress at his death[1] (1931)

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d Lent Dayton Upson (1936). "Wilcox, Delos Franklin". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2. ^ "For City Ownership of Street Railways; Federal Commission's Own Expert Criticizes Report Favoring Service-at-Cost Plan". The New York Times. 1920-08-30. p. S17.
  3. ^ Wilcox, Delos F. (1910). Great Cities in America: Their Problems and Their Government. The citizen's library of economics, politics, and sociology. New York: Macmillan. OCLC 17641179.
  4. ^ Wilcox, Delos F. (1921). Analysis of the Electric Railway Problem (PDF). New York: Delos F. Wilcox. OCLC 1039534127.

References edit

External links edit

  • Guide to the Delos Franklin Wilcox Papers 1907-1928 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

February 16, 2024
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