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A Biographical History of the Georgist Movement



“The grey heads and bald heads are in the majority. The problem that confronts those of us who want the torch held up in the future, is to fill up the ranks. In order to do that many things must be done, but we must not depend on the old or middle-aged. Somehow or other we must devise a way to reach the minds of the young people – when their minds are open, when they are ready for new truths.”

Mr. Rose, of Kansas City, Missouri (from a speech at the 1928 Henry George Foundation Congress, Chicago. Reprinted in: Land and Freedom, September-October 1928)


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Name Place(s) of Residence Comments
Bianco,
Neva
New York
(New York)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
  • 195- - Became volunteer at Henry George School, NY
  • 1957 - Attended Henry George School conference, Staten Island, New York
  • 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
  • 1967 - Attended Henry George School conference, Montreal, Quebec, July
  • 1969 - Attended Henry George School conference, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, PA
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1997 - Article, "Continuing Education -- the HGI Way," Georgist Journal, Summer
Bianco,
Roma
New York
(New York)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
  • 195- - Became volunteer at Henry George School, NY
  • 1957 - Attended Henry George School conference, Staten Island, July
  • 19-- - Edited Henry George School alumni newsletter, Sage's Pages
  • 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
  • 1967 - Attended Henry George School conference, Montreal, Quebec, July
  • 1969 - Attended Henry George School conference, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, PA
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1984 - Died, April 10
Bianco,
Bob
New York
(Long Island)
  • 1968 - Teacher, Henry George School, Long Island
Bickerdike,
Charles
Biddle,
Lloyd (Mrs.)
...
  • 1940 - Attended Henry George Foundation of America Congress, Washington, DC; 25-27 September
Biddle,
N.J.
Michigan
(Detroit)
  • 1958 - Delivered talk, "The Justification of Legislative and/or Political Action," at Wayne State University
Biddle,
Richard

Photograph
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1979 - Joins faculty, Henry George School extension
  • 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • 1980 - Interviewed on LVT by Philadelphia Inquirer
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1981 - Organizes Incentive Tax League of Delaware Valley
  • 1982 - Attended annual Georgist Conference, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, 16-19 July
  • 2004 - Elected to board, Robert Schlakenbach Foundation
  • 2004 - Appointed Acting Director, Henry George School
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
  • 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Evanston, Illinois, July
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
  • 2009 - Photograph, at the annual Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Cleveland, Ohio
Bidgood,
Lee
Alabama
  • Profession: Professor of Political Economy, University of Alabama
  • 1927 - Quote from his text (p.152): "Again, Single Taxers are incorrect in supposing that increase in value without the effort of the owner the unearned increment is peculiar to land. We see such increase going on everywhere in respect to all sorts of property. The ethical basis of the Single Tax is therefore fallacious."
Bieder,
H.
Ohio
(Painesville)
  • 1937 - Letter, agreeing with an article by Joseph R. Carroll, Land and Freedom, September-October. Quote: "It was my pleasure to hear [Henry George] denounce land monopoly in Ashtabula, Ohio, and to this day I sitll seem to hear his resonant voice."
Bieler,
Samuel K. (Dr.)
...
  • 1880s - Active Single Tax supporter (his sons were also active in the movement)
Bierwith,
H. Conrad
Massachusetts
(Cambridge)
  • Professor (of German) who expressed support for Henry George's analysis
  • 1884 - Graduated, Harvard University
  • 1928 - Book, Elementary Lessons in German, published
  • 1940 - Died
Bieu,
W.F.
Ohio
(Cleveland)
  • 1890 - Serving as President, Ohio Single Tax League
Bigelow,
Herbert S. (Rev.)
Ohio
(Cincinnati)
  • 1870 - Born, elkhart, Indiana
  • 189- - Given Progress and Poverty by a member of the congreation, George Von Auer
  • 1890s - Joins Single Tax movement and becomes lecturer
  • 1904 - Photograph
  • 1907 - Assisted in Single Tax campaign in Rhode Island
  • 1911 - Article, "The Religion of Henry George," Twentieth Century Magazine, February
  • 1911 - Article, The Farmer and the Land Value Tax, Twentieth Century Magazine April
  • 1911 - Article, Equality of Opportunity, The Great Social Aim, Twentieth Century Magazine, April
  • 1911 - Article, The Land Tax and the Problem of the Unemployed, Twentieth Century Magazine, April
  • 1911 - Article, Monopoly in Land a National Peril, Twentieth Century Magazine, April
  • 1915 - Article, On the Origins of War, Single Tax Review, July-August
  • 1915 - Pamphlet, Teaching a "Professor of Economics" Political Economy
  • 1915 - Pamphlet, Jobs and Jobless
  • 1915 - Pamphlet, Free Land Means Free Men
  • 1915 - Pamphlet, A Disregarded Warning
  • 1915 - Pamphlet, The Ownership and Funding of Public Utilities
  • 1916 - Booklet, Christianity, the Religion of Evolution, a compilation of extracts from addresses
  • 1916 - Address, "What shall we do with our Millionaires?" at the People's Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 23 January
  • 1916 - Sermons published
  • 1916 - Attended Joseph Fels Fund conference, Niagara Falls, NY, 19-21 August
  • 1928 - Address, on "the fundamentals of the Single Tax philosophy" at the People's Church, Cincinnati, 22 April
  • 1929 - Attended Henry George Congress, Pittsburgh, PA, September
  • 1929 - Attended International Union conference, Edinburgh, Scotland; delivered opening sermon
  • 1929 - Elected to the National Advisory Commission of the Henry George Foundation of America
  • 1936 - Elected to U.S. House of Representatives
  • 1936 - Attended Henry George Congress, Cincinnati; 12-14 November; outlined strategy to make Cincinnati the first Single Tax city in the United States
  • 1937 - Article, In Defense of the Philosophy of Individualism, a radio address before The People's Lobby, 13 February; Land and Freedom, March-April
  • 1937 - Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
  • 1941 - Attended Henry George Congress, Chicago, Illinois; 29 September - 1 October
  • 1949 - Attended International Union conference, Swanwick, England
  • 1949 - Address, "Our Plundered Earth," at Henry George Foundation of America Congress, Philadelphia, PA, September
  • 1951 - Died, age 81
Bigelow,
Poultney
New York
(Malden-on-Hudson)
  • Profession: lawyer
  • 1870s - Studied economics at Yale University under William Graham Sumner
  • 1880 - Became acquainted with Henry George
  • 1881 - Member, New York Free Trade club; supported Henry George
  • 1890s - Moved to England
  • 1912 - Article, Kaiser Wilhelm II, The Single Tax Review, March-April. Reprinted from Land and Freedom, July-August 1941
  • 1921 - Article, on Henry George, Journal of Law and Order. Excerpt (Single Tax Review, March-April): "Of the many and noble and unselfish men that have loomed on my social and literary horizon, Henry George stands out with remarkable vividness"
  • 1921 - Visited Japan, and on his return began work on a new book
  • 1929 - Named by France a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
  • 1930 - Article, "The Prophet of San Francisco," The New Church Messenger, November
  • 1933 - Address, on his personal reminiscences of Henry George, at the Henry George Club of Melbourne, Australia
Biggar,
Olive
New York
(New York)
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
Bigley,
George
Delaware
(Arden)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
Bilgram,
Hugo
...
  • 1914 - Chapter, Land and Rent, from the book, The Cause of Business Depressions, written in collaboration with Louis Edward Levy, published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914
  • 1914 - Chapter, The Single Tax, from the book, The Cause of Business Depressions, written in collaboration with Louis Edward Levy, published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1914
  • 1928 - Book, The Remedy for Overproduction and Unemployment, Vanguard Press
Bille,
Elisabeth Breese
New York
(Syracuse)
  • 1950s-60s - Attended many Henry George School conferences and served as instructor at Henry George School
  • 1965 - Married Frank Bille and moved to California
  • 1971 - Died, 22 April
  • 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA
Bille,
Frank F.
California
(Arcadia)
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
  • 196- - Pamphlet, Outline of Monetary Theory, completed (undated)
  • 1960 - Book, "The Great Landlord and his Tenants, an Introduction to the Ideology of True Capitalism," Part I, published in manuscript form
  • 1961 - Letter printed, Henry George News, June
  • 1964 - Booklet, The Danish-American Georgist, presented at the International Georgist conference, New York, NY, August-September
  • 1979 - Photograph
  • 1982 - Book, Proposition America
  • 1984 - Pamphlet, Populist Principle: The Fundamental Economic Principle of Property Rights, published
Billett,
Elva M.
Ohio
(Lakewood)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
Billington,
Josephine
New York
(New York)
  • 1943 - Instructor at Henry George School and member, Editorial Committee, Henry George News
  • 1943 - Address, "Preserving Democracy," given to young women's group in Jamaica, New York, 4 October
Binford,
Gurney
California
(Los Angeles)
  • 1945 - Talk, on the "Japanese rural economy and economic problems," where he lived for 43 years as a Quaker missionary
Bingham,
Alfred
...
  • 1905 - Born
  • 1932 - Became editor of Common Sense, which he continued until 1943
  • 1935 - Book, Insurgent America: Revolt of the Middle Class
  • 1937 - Book, Man's Estate
  • 1939 - Review by Sidney Abelson of the book, Man's Estate: Adventures in Economic Discovery, The Freeman, September
  • 1990 - Photograph
  • 1998 - Died
Bingham,
George
New York
  • 1934 - Instructor, Henry George School, New York, NY; elected temporary Vice President, New York chapter, Henry George Fellowship
  • 1936 - Studying journalism at Henry George School, New York, NY; under John Monroe
Bingham,
Margaret F.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
  • 1935 - Attended Henry George Congress, New York, NY; September
Birch,
John
Ohio
(Dayton)
  • 1890 - Serving as President, Free Land Club
Birchler,
Tom
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1938 - Serving as Editor, Henry George Fellowship News
Birmingham,
E. Thomas
New York
(Long Island)
  • 198- - Elected trustee, HGI
  • 198- President, Incentive Taxation League, South Shore
  • 1988 - Elected trustee, HGI
Birmingham,
Tom
...
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Bischoff,
Ingo
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1979 - Served as President of the board of directors, Henry George School
  • 2003 - Continues servicing on the board of directors, Henry George School
Bishop,
L.O.
Indiana
(Clinton)
Alabama
(Fairhope)
  • 18-- - Newspaper writer for Fairhope Courier and "an earnest Henry George man."
  • 1890 - Member, state executive committee, Indiana Single Tax League
  • 1920 - Moved to Fairhope, Alabama
  • 1937 - Died (age 78)
Bishop,
Sarah
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Bissell,
Stanford
...
  • 1939 - Article, A Congress Debates Democracy, The Freeman, November
  • 1941 - Address, "What is American Youth's Moral Code?" on Town Hall of the Air, 20 November
Bissell,
Victor M.
Connecticut
(Terryville)
  • Publisher: devoted to the ideas of Thomas Paine and long-time supporter of the Single Tax
  • 1929 - Died, 27 September (age 54)
Bittenbender,
William P.
New Hampshire
(Deering)
  • 1975 - Article, "Unearned Income vs. Unearned Increment," Georgist Journal, Spring
  • 1981 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, New Hampshire
Bitzer,
J. Barry
New Mexico
(Albuquerque)
  • 2004 - Participated in panel on "Hunger, Homelessness and the Land Problem," at Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico