Francis Henry Bird was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts in 1887. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1910. He did graduate work at the University of California and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. Bird served in the Army as a First Lieutenant in 1918 and then worked for the United Typothetae of America from 1919 - 1926, and continued to serve on their Committee on Research until 1932. He began teaching at the University of Cincinnati in 1926 as a Professor of Commerce. He served as head of the Commerce Department and then Dean of the College of Business Administration from 1946 until 1958. Bird's other activities included serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and a member of the National War Labor Board during World War II. Bird died in 1982 at the age of 94
From the guide to the F.H. (Francis Henry) Bird papers, 1921-1960, (University of Cincinnati, Archives and Rare Books Library)
