David Hutton Webster (March 24, 1875 − May 20, 1955) was an American sociologist, economist and anthropologist. He was Lecturer Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University.

Biography

David Hutton Webster was born in

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on March 24, 1875. He went to California in 1893, receiving a A. B. from Stanford University in 1896, where he subsequently served as an assistant in economics from 1899 to 1900. From 1902 he was a teaching fellow in economics at

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, where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1904. For the next three years Webster was Assistant Professor of Economics at

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in Williamstown, Massachusetts. From there Webster went to the

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, where he was Professor of Social Anthropology until 1933. He was later hired by Stanford University, of which his former classmate

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was president, serving there since 1940 as Lecturer Emeritus of Sociology. Webster was a member of the American Anthropological Association, the American Folklore Society, the American Sociological Society, the

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, the Royal Anthropological Institute,

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, the

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, the

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of Washington, D. C., and the Press and Union League Club of San Francisco. Webster was killed by a train in

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on May 20, 1955. He was survived by seven children.

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