Delos Franklin Wilcox (April 22, 1873 in
Ida, Michigan – April 4, 1928
) was a
United States
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expert on municipal government.
Biography
He graduated from the
University of Michigan
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in 1894, having been strongly influenced by
John Dewey
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The overridi ...
.
[ He took the degree of Ph.D. at ]Columbia University
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in 1896. He edited the Detroit
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''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.
Personal
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.[
]
Works
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)
* ''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)[ (1931)
]
Notes
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References
External links
Guide to the Delos Franklin Wilcox Papers 1907-1928
at th
University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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1873 births
1928 deaths
American editors
20th-century American non-fiction writers
Columbia University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
People from Monroe County, Michigan
20th-century American male writers
19th-century American male writers
19th-century American non-fiction writers