Knight, Frank Hyneman. Papers 1908-1979

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Knight, Frank Hyneman. Papers 1908-1979

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Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972) was an economist, professor, social philosopher, and author. The collection includes biographical material and documents pertaining to Knight's education; correspondence; copies of his publications; drafts of published and unpublished essays and articles, public lectures, and criticism; course lecture notes and classroom materials; and writings by others collected by Knight. The papers primarily document Knight's writing, lecturing, and career as a professor of political economics and related social sciences at the University of Chicago, as well as his role as one of the founders of the "Chicago school" of economics.

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Knight, Frank H. (Frank Hyneman), 1885-1972

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Born on November 7, 1885 in White Oak Township, McLean County, Illinois, Frank Hyneman Knight's early years were spent engaged in the work of his family's farm. At the age of twenty he finally began his post-secondary education, attending first American University in Harriman, Tennessee. Knight's first contact with the University of Chicago occurred during these early years: in the Summer Quarter of 1906 he took a mathematics and two upper-level physics courses at the University, ga...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...