Alexander E. Cance Papers 1911-1958

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Alexander E. Cance Papers 1911-1958

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Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when it was known as Massachusetts Agricultural College who also worked briefly for Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover, as well as the United States Department of Agriculture. Includes biographical materials, correspondence concerning Cance's role in the agricultural cooperative movement, addresses, articles (both in typescript and published), lectures, book reviews, typescript of a Carnegie study of factors in agricultural economics, a summary of a U.S. Senate report of which he was co-author, "Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe," and research material. No documentation of his role as a delegate to the Hoover Conference on Economic Crisis, 1920, or his position as Supervisor of Market Research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1922.

6 boxes; 2.75 linear ft.

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Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Cance, Alexander E.

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Alexander E. Cance, Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts, was born in 1874 in Wisconsin. In 1891 he graduated from the academy of Gale College, Galesville, Wisconsin, and taught physics, mathematics, and science through the next year (1892). From there he went to Macalester College of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he received his B.A. in 1896. For the next three years (1896-1899) he taught Mathematics, Greek, Latin, and English ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Agricultural Economics.

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