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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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United States
Name Place(s) of Residence Comments
Dagen,
Leah
...
  • 1953 - Article, "Apprehension," Henry George News, November
  • 1953 - Completed course at Henry George School
Daggett,
M.F.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Daggitt,
Esther
District of Columbia
  • 1940 - Founding member, Woman's National Tax Relief Association
Dahl,
Grace
Massachusetts
(Boston)
  • 1941 - Secretary, Boston Speakers Bureau (newly organized)
Dailey,
Ivan
Ohio
(Lakewood)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
  • 1950s - Served as Teacher, Henry George School
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
  • 1961 - Attended Henry George School conference, Hartford, Connecticut
  • 1962 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 1964 - Becomes director, Henry George School extension
  • 1966 - Died (killed in automobile accident on way to HGS conference)
D'Alfonso,
John
California
San Diego
  • 1977 - Photograph
  • 1977 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
DALLAS SINGLE TAX LEAGUE Texas
(Dallas)
  • 1915 - G.B. Foster, Secretary-Treasurer
Dallea,
Dennis E.
California
  • 1943 - Instructor, Henry George School, Los Angeles, CA
Dallman,
V.Y.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Dalrymple,
John F.
...
  • 1926 - Active Single Tax supporter
Daly,
John L.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1937 - Member, editorial staff, Henry George Fellowship News
Daly,
Will
Oregon
  • 1914 - Active in Single Tax movement
Dame,
Elma
New York
(New York)
  • 1921 - Address, on the substitution of charity for justice in modern practice, at the Women's Henry George League annual dinner, 12 February
Damon,
Eugene
Mississippi
(Meridian)
  • 1976 - Attended Henry George Foundation conference, Evanston, IL
Dana,
Elizabeth (Betsy)
Oregon
  • 1951 - Began to work as volunteer for world federalism
  • 1981 - first read Progress & Poverty
  • 198- - Established Georgist Registry
  • 1984 - Letter, Georgist Journal, Spring
  • 1984 - Attended CGO conference in Pawling, NY
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1991 - Died, April, age 66
Dana,
George W.
Oregon
(Portland)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Dancey,
Jesse S. (Rev.)
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Dancis,
Matthew
New York
(New York)
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
Dangerfield,
James
New York
(New York)
  • 1919 - Chairman, Single Tax Party
Dandurant,
P.C.
New York
(Cohoes)
  • 1890 - Serving as President, Single Tax Committee
Daniells,
A.L.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Daniells,
W.C.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Daniels,
Ernest H. (Mrs.)
District of Columbia
  • 1940 - Attended Henry George Foundation of america Congress, Washington, DC; 25-27 September
Daniels,
John
New Jersey
(Camden)
  • Profession: Commissioner of Department of Streets, Camden, New Jersey
  • 1939 - Born, 29 May, Akron, Ohio
  • 1941 - Sent to Camden, New Jersey to live with relatives after death of parents
  • 1960s - Served in U.S. Air Force
  • 1977 - First took Henry George courses in Philadelphia.
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, PA
  • 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA
Daniels,
Josephus
North Carolina
(Raleigh)
  • 1921 - Statement delivered before the American Society of Naval Engineers: "Has not the time come when oil and coal and water power shall be nationalized? The ownership of God-created essentials should belong to all the people." From the New York Times, 19 December
  • 1926 - Letter, regarding Henry George, Land and Freedom, September-October. Quote: "You are quite right in believing that I had a profound admiration for Henry George. I recall to this day the thrill tht his early books gave me. While never quite persuaded that the remedy he offered was practical, I always felt that he had stimulated interest and thought along lines which must bear fruit in a juster scheme of taxation and his awakening of the masses of men, was the beginning of better things."
Danzelsen,
Lloyd
Ohio
(Brookville)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
Danziger,
Joseph
District of Columbia
(Brookville)
Danziger,
Samuel
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
Maryland
  • 1910 - Selected as assistant of the Publicity Bureau of The Public
  • 1910 - Attended Single Tax Conference, New York, NY, November
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
  • 1913 - Succeeds Louis F. Post as editor of The Public
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
  • 1926 - May have resided in Maryland
  • 1926 - Elected to the National Advisory Committee of the Henry George Foundation of America
  • 1931 - Article, Voltaire and Physiocratie, Land and Freedom, January-February
  • 1931 - Letter, proposing that Single Taxers press Democrats to resurrect Louis F. Post's 1916 plan to "put the unemployed in touch with unused land." Land and Freedom, January-February
  • 1933 - Article, Voltaire and the Physiocrats, Land and Freedom, July-August
  • 1936 - Died, 11 July
Darby,
Louise
California
(San Diego)
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Darcy,
David
Texas
(Austin)
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
Dardek,
Elsie
New York
(New York)
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
Darling,
Joseph F.
New York
(New York)
  • 1865 - Born
  • 1910 - Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, on Land Value Tax Party ticket
  • 19-- - Appointed Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York
  • 1913 - Candidate for District Attorney, New York County
  • 1915 - Died, 6 October
Darrow,
Clarence
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1857 - Born, Ohio
  • 1880s - Attended lecture by Henry George in Chicago, then participated in the discussion that followed
  • 19xx - Became supporter of HG movement
  • 1913 - Article, on Henry George, Everyman
  • 1913 - Address, Henry George, at the Henry George anniversary dinner of the Single Tax Club, Chicago, 19 September
  • 19xx - Book, Plain Talk. Quote: "Our machines long ago solved the problem of production. Why should not our statesmen and captains of industry ue their genius and experience for the solution of the pressing problem of distribution?"
  • 19xx - Quote: "The 'Single Tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt that it will be about the last land reform the world will ever get. People in this world are not often logical."
  • 1916 - Address, on the Single Tax, delivered in Denver, 14 January
  • 1916 - Article, The Land Belongs To The People, Everyman, October
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
  • 1931 - Elected to the National Advisory Committee, Henry George Foundation of America
  • 1933 - Address, Roosevelt's New Deal, a Critical Appraisal, delivered at the Henry George Congress, Chicago, IL, September
  • 1934 - Attended Henry George Congress
  • 1938 - Died
Darson,
Edmund J.
Michigan
(Detroit)
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
  • 1961 - Teacher, Henry George School
Dart,
Clyde
...
  • 1938 - Article, "How to Yoke the Ox," The Freeman, July
  • 1938 - Attended Henry George congress, Toronto, Ontario; 7-9 September
Dart,
David
...
  • 1966 - Elected to head Sacramento branch of Henry George School (succeeding Leonard Nitz)
Date,
Al
...
  • 1998 - Article, "What Happened to Titantic Japan?"Groundwell, March-April
Dauchey,
Samuel
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
David,
Mary
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
David,
V.E.
Nebraska
(Omaha)
  • 1939 - Serving as President, Henry George Fellowhship
Davids,
Lawrence L.
...
  • 1890s - Served as Assistant to Henry George
Davidson,
J. Morrison
...
  • 1899 - Book, Concerning Four Precursors of Henry George and The Single Tax (reissued in 1971 by Kennikat Press)
Davidson,
Roy
California
(San Diego)
  • 1963 - Article, Land -- Is it Really Scarce? California Homeowner, November
  • 1964 - Appointed director, Henry George School (at new location following sale of the Henry George House)
  • 1965 - Paper, "The Pattern of Assessments in California," presented at Henry George Schools conference, Asilomar, CA, July
  • 1966 - Attended Henry George School conference, St. Louis, Missouri
Davidson,
Thomas
...
  • 1890 - Paper delivered against Single Tax, American Social Science Association conference, Saratoga
Davidson,
William P.
New York
(New York)
  • 1963 - Elected to board of trustees, Henry George School
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1996 - Serving on the board, Henry George School of Social Science, New York, NY
Davies,
A.A.
...
  • 1915 - Member, Single Tax Part of Philadelphia
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
Davies, Lindy
ESSAYS at the Henry George Institute archives
Maine
(Brooks)
  • 1988 - Joins faculty, Henry George School extension, Delaware
  • 1989 - Joins staff, Henry George School, NY
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1989 - Article, "Trump Makes Anything Famous," GroundSwell, November-December
  • 1991 - Article, "Knowledge vs. Skill," Georgist Journal, Autumn
  • 1992 - Article, "Costing The Illth: A Market for the Environment," Henry George Newsletter, May-June
  • 1992 - Article, "Free Thinking About Free Trade," Georgist Journal, Autumn
  • 1992 - Article, "Some Thoughts on Enterprise Zones," Henry George Newsletter, September/October
  • 1992 - Article, "Is Free Trade Good for the Environment," Henry George Newsletter, November-December
  • 1993 - Article, "Our House of Financial Horrors," Henry George News, September/October
  • 1994 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Fairhope, Alabama
  • 1994 - Article, "The Land for the People -- Of the World,"
  • 1995 - Delivered paper, "the Closing of the Virtual Frontier," at CG0 conference, Evanston, Illinois
  • 1996 - Article, Smile When You Say "Free Trade", Henry George News, August
  • 1997 - Article, "Implementation: Many Paths Lead There," Georgist Journal, Autumn
  • 1997 - Report on Henry George Memorial Conference at Cooper Union, NYC, November 1, Georgist Journal, Autumn
  • 1997 - Resigns as Assistant Director, Henry George, NY
  • 19-- - Appointed director, Henry George Institute
  • 1999 - Article, "The Joyful Noise of Economic Justice," Georgist Journal, Autumn
  • 2000 - Essay, The Robber that Takes all that is Left, 16 August
  • 2004 - Afterword to a new, abridged edition of The Science of Political Economy by Henry George
  • 2004 - Article, The Henry George Institute: A Progress Report, Progress, May-June
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
  • 2005 - Essay, Land and Justice, August
  • 2006 - Essay, Capitalism
  • 2006 - Essay, Ownership
  • 2006 - Essay, Why Are Theories of Value Important?
  • 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Evanston, Illinois, July
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
  • 2008 - Essay, Pathological Production, printed by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
  • 2009 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Cleveland, Ohio
Davis,
Alice E.
New York
(New York)
  • 1901 - Born
  • 1946 - Became editor, Henry George News
  • 1948 - Address, "Can the Henry George News Help?" at Henry George School conference, Chicago, July
  • 1949 - Attended International Union conference, Swanwick, England
  • 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • 1960 - Attended Henry Geroge Schools conference, Detroit, MI
  • 1962 - Editor, Henry George News; attended Henry George Schools conference, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 1967 - Attended Henry George School conference, Montreal, Quebec, July
  • 1971 - Retired as editor of Henry George News
  • 1988 - Died, September 29
Davis,
Andrew
...
  • 1941 - Article, "War Bends Tin Monopoly," The Freeman, June
Davis,
Casper
...
Davis,
Charles S.
District of Columbia
  • 1931 - Died
Davis,
Charlie
California
San Francisco
  • 1963 - Program Chairman, Henry George School
Davis,
Clarence
Oklahoma
(Sapulpa)
  • 1915 - Publisher and editor of the Oklahoma Single Taxer
  • 1915 - Authored a constitutional amendment to be voted on in that state "exempting from taxation all improvements upon lots and lands."
Davis,
Esther
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1939 - Serving as Chair of the Social Committee of the Henry George Fellowship
Davis,
G.G.
Montana
  • 1939 - Elected to the Montana State Senate
  • 1939 - Letter, regarding progress finishing Henry George School correspondence course, The Freeman, June, in which he wrote: "It is the only course of study that goes to the very cause of Progress on the one hand, and Poverty on the other. I was so elated that I had even completed the first five lessons before I went ot the State Senate of Montana this last January... It stood me well in hand many times on the Senate floor, in arguments and radio talks."
Davis,
J.H.
Pennsylvania
(New Castle)
  • 1938 - Serving as Director, Henry George Club
Davis,
Janet
...
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Davis,
John A.
Texas
Dallas
  • 1919 - Member of the Texas legislature from Dallas, spoke on behalf of a constitutional amendment to adopt the Single Tax
  • 1988 - Died
Davis,
John W.
...
  • 1924 - Candidate for U.S. Presidency (Democratic Party)
  • 1928 - Quote to visitor: "Considered Henry George had made the most valuable contributions to economics of any of the writers of the past century." Said he had read all of Henry George's books "with interest and profit."
Davis,
Louis H. (Dr.)
Missouri
(St. Louis)
  • 19xx - Became active in Single Tax League of Missouri
  • 1931 - Died (age 67)
Davis,
Mary R.
Georgia
(Atlanta)
  • 197- Completed Henry George Institute correspondence course
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1982 - Organized Georgia League for LVT
  • 198- - Elected director, Common Ground, USA
  • 1992 - Died, December
Davis,
Mike
New York
(Albion)
  • 1944 - Teaching a course on Henry George at the Batavia extension
Davis,
Morten
Oregon
(Portland)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Davis,
Murray S. (Jr.)
...
  • 1973 - Served on board, Henry George School of Northern California
Davis,
Robert H.
Nevada
(Carson City)
  • 1926 - Article, "Soul of Henry George, Land and Freedom, September-October; he recalled a visit by Henry George when he was a small child
Davis,
Ted
Connecticut
(Baltic)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Davis,
W.C.
Colorado
(Tin Cup)
  • 1889 - Letter, regarding silver-backed currency, The Standard, 21 December (with response by Henry George)
Dawsey,
James
Alabama
Dawson,
H.H.
...
  • 1945 - Taught Henry George course at Biggs Field, Texas
Dawson,
Tom Givens
California
(San Diego)
  • 1939 - Serving as Treasurer, San Diego Single Tax Society
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Dawson,
William Harbutt
...
  • 1890 - Book, The Unearned Increment, published
Day,
Alice Taylor
New York
(New York)
  • Professor: Columbia University
  • 1964 - Delivered a report on Australia at Columbia University forum, Spring, with an analysis of LTV
Days,
John M.
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1878 - Participated with Henry George in a study and discussion group
Deachman,
R.J.
...
  • 1929 - Article, "A Tariff Lesson from Canada," New Republic, 12 June
  • 1929 - Serving as representative of the Consumers League of Canada and a supporter of the Single Tax
DeAngelis,
Marshall

...
  • See: Angelis, Marshall...
Dear,
D.P.
Mississippi
(Meridian)
  • 1918 - Letter, Everyman, April, in which he wrote: "All single tax energy in the United States should be concentrated on California. The attention of every landlord in the country is now focused on The Great Adventure and they're holding their breath!"
  • 1921 - Working with R.S. Phifer to organize the Single Taxers of Mississippi
Dearness,
Fred W.
Ohio
(Cincinnati)
  • 1920s- Became active supporter of the Single Tax after reading A Perplexed Philosopher
Dearsdorff,
W.P.
California
(San Diego)
  • 1917 - Letter, in support of The Great Adventure, Everyman, October
Debolt,
F.
Montana
(Oak Hill)
  • 1890 - Serving as President, Oak Hill Single Tax League
Debs,
Eugene V.
...
  • 1918 - Letter, regarding death of Herman Kuehn, Everyman, April
Decker,
Aaron (Rabbi)
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1940 - Member, Henry George School advisory council
DeCleyre,
Harry
...
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
DELAWARE SINGLE TAX ASSOCIATION
Delaware
D'Elia,
Anthony N.
New York
  • 1956 - Letter, Henry George News, March; regarding Steve Cord's article "Mass Psychology and Depressions"
  • 1958 - Article, "Your Contribuiton -- 70 Cents Worth of Land," Henry George News
  • 1958 - Article, "Tell me, Senor, why did you spit on my Vice-President?" Henry George News, October
DeGollier,
Spencer
Pennsylvania
(Bradford)
  • 1929 - Serving as Mayor of Bradford
  • 1929 - Attended the Henry George Congress, Pittsburgh, PA, September. Quote: "The question of taxation was as much an ethical as an economic question."
DeLeon,
Daniel


Biography
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  • 1852 - Born, 14 December, Curacao Island
  • 1860s to 1870s - Studied in Europe; attended Columbia College in NYC (graduated)
  • 1870s - Became socialist, active in Socialist Labor Party
  • 1886 - Supported Henry George campaign under the United Labor Party
  • 1892 - Became editor of the People
  • 1890s - Translated Marx into English
  • 1914 - Died, 11 May, New York City
Delford,
Emilia Houghton
Minnesota
(Duluth)
  • 1943 - Letter, to Anna George DeMille, 7 June, responding to concerns she was critical of Henry George's efforts or writings.
Dellgren,
August
Minnesota
(Minneapolis)
  • 18-- Born, Sweden
  • 1890s - Publisher of Single Tax Journal
  • 1894 - Moved to Fairhope, Alabama
DeAngelis,
Marshall
New York
(New York)
  • 1961 - Teacher, Henry George School
Della Volpe,
Domenic
Florida
(Miami)
  • 1961 - Volunteer at new Henry George School extension
Dellgren,
August (Rev.)
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Delman,
Frae
New York
(New York)
  • 198- - Joined staff of Henry George School, NY, in charge of arranging speaking engagements with outside groups
DeMarie,
A.F.
New York
(New York)
  • 1967 - Attended Henry George School conference, Montreal, Quebec, July
De Mille,
Agnes George
...
  • SEE: Mille, Agnes De
Demmler,
Walter R.
Pennsylvania
(Pittsburgh)
  • 1912 - Leader in the Single Tax group
  • 19-- - elected to City Council
  • 1944 - Letter, regarding need to eliminate "all profit in the mere ownership of land," Henry George News, February (written from Los Angeles, CA)
  • 1949 - Participated in the Henry George Foundation of America Congress, Philadelphia, PA, September (member of City Council)
  • 1951 - Died, July 24, age 66
Demuth,
John Arthur


Photograph
Ohio
(Toledo)
  • 1848 - Born
  • 18-- - Attended Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, NY
  • 1867 - Entered U.S. Military Academy, West Point
  • 1889 - Appointed to teach at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
  • 1890s - Became ardent Single Taxer
  • 1919 - Retired from teaching
  • 1923 - Died
  • 1999 - Gift made to Henry George School in his name by granddaughter
Denbigh,
Helen D.
New York
California
(Berkeley)
  • 1932 - Taught at the Henry George School with Oscar Geiger and helped to keep the school going after Geiger's death
  • 1933 - Began tudies at the Henry George School, New York, under Oscar Geiger
  • 1934 - Formed Student Council at Henry George School
  • 1934 - Article, "Let Us Move Forward Together," a message following the death of Oscar Geiger. Land and Freedom, July-August
  • 1936 - Appointed alumni coordinator, Henry George School, New York
  • 1936 - Elected Vice President, Henry George Fellowship
  • 1936 - Attended International Union conference, London; led discussion on "Economic Class Teaching" with Lancaster Greene
  • 1937 - Article, Oscar Geiger's Reading Circles: "First the Blade -- Then the Ear", Land and Freedom, January-February
  • 1938 - Moved from New York City to Berkeley and worked to build the Henry George School
  • 1939 - Teaching Henry George course
  • 1940 - Teaching course using Max Hirsch's book, Socialism the Slave State
  • 1945 - Died
DeNigris,
Bob
Delaware
(Arden)
  • 1999 - Delivered paper, "Henry George and the Single Tax," at Henry George Institute conference, Arden, Delaware
DeMott,
Lewis
New York
(Long Island)
  • 198- Joins faculty, Henry George School extension
DeNigris,
Bob
Delaware
(Arden)
Denis,
Alan St.
...
  • 1957 - Article, "Who Employs Labor?" Henry George News
Dennett,
Hartley
Massachusetts
(Boston)
New Harmpshire
(Mill Hollow)
(E. Alstead)
  • Profession: Architect
  • 1870 - Born, Saco, Maine
  • 1907 - Joined the Henry George Lecture Association
  • 1909 - Secretary, Massachusetts Single Tax League
  • 1918 - Letter, Everyman, April, in which he wrote: "Bold Adventurers -- you seem so far away that it is hard to realize that the earth you are trying to free is the same earth we are sitting on here in New Hampshire."
  • 1935 - Attended Henry George Congress, New York, NY; September
  • 1936 - Serving as an instructor, Henry George School extension
  • 1936 - Died, 27 February (influenza)
Dennett,
Margaret E.C.
New Hampshire
(E. Alstead)
  • 1936 - Died, 1 March
Dennett,
Mary Ware
...
Dennis,
Jno L.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
DeNoto,
Fannie
New York
Floral Park
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Densmore,
Gleason
California
(Los Angeles)
  • 1952 - Teacher, Henry George School
  • 1954 - Article, "Human Rights vs Property Rights," Henry George News, July
Denton,
Gladys
New York
(Elmhurts, L.I.)
  • 1953 - Active in Henry George movement; organized a "Women's Auxiliary"
DePinto,
Joseph
Delaware
(Wilmington)
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Derchin,
D.
New York
(New York)
  • 1958 - Letter, Henry George News, June
DeSantis,
John (Jr.)
New York
(New York)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
DeShields,
George

New York
(New York)
  • 1999 - Teacher, Henry George School, NY
Desilva,
Eloise Parker
New Jersey
(Jersey City)
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
Desilva,
Pia
New Jersey
(Jersey City)
  • 1958 - Born, New York City
  • 1976 - Attended Waynesburg College (to 1977)
  • 1977 - Attended New York University's School of Education (to 1978)
  • 1990 - First enrolled in courses at the Henry George School, New York City
  • 1991 - Invited to join the faculty of the Henry George School (teaching all three main courses)
  • 1997 - Elected to the board, Henry George Institute (serving from time to time through 2008)
  • 2001 - Rejoined the faculty of the Henry George School
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
Dessan,
Henry F.
...
  • 1917 - Serving as President, Oakland Single Tax League
DeStefano,
Nicholas
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1967 - Joins faculty, Henry George School
Devine,
Lois
California
  • 1989 - Trustee, Basic Economic Education
Devine,
R.F.
Pennsylvania
(Erie)
  • Profession: President, Erie Forge Company
  • 1860 - Born, Lake River, Schuylkill County
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
  • 1911 - Candidate for mayor (Democrat) but was defeated
  • 1928 - Died, 2 January (age 67)
Devine,
Richard
...
  • 1972 - Taught course, "Reform For Our Time," Henry George School, New York, NY
Devine,
Robert P.
Pennsylvania
(Eria)
  • 1915 - Serving as President, Erie Single Tax Club
Devoe,
John J.
New Jersey
(Belleville)
  • 19-- - First read Progress and Poverty and became an advocate of Henry George's proposals
  • 1935 - Became an instructor at the Henry George School, New York, under Frank Chodorov
  • 1956 - Attended Henry George School conference, Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr, PA
  • 1956 - Article, "Money and Wealth," The Gargoyle, October
DeVos,
John A.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1940s - Member, speakers bureau, Henry George School, Chicago
  • 1944 - Started Henry George course for stewards of the Illinois Union of Telephone Workers
Dewey,
Davis R.
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  • 1900s - Book, National Problems: 1885-1897, contains three pages on Henry George
  • 1910 - Serving as President, American Economics Association
  • 1910 - Address, "Observation in Economics. Quote: "The error of Henry George, socialists, or extreme individualists is not so much in their reasoning as in defective observation."
Dewey,
John

Photograph
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  • 1897 - Article, My Pedagogic Creed, The School Journal, Vol. LIV, No.3
  • 1910 - Article, The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy, Holt, pp. 9-19.
  • 1927 - Essay, An Appreciation of Henry George, October
  • 1928 - Introduction, to the book Significant Paragraphs from Henry George's Progress and Poverty, published by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
  • 1928 - Article, Charles Beard on Henry George, Land and Freedom, July-August
  • 1928 - Article, Harry Gunnison Brown's Treatment of Henry George, Land and Freedom, January-February
  • 1931 - Article, The League for Independent Political Action: What We Call For, Land and Freedom, March-April
  • 1932 - Delivered radio speech, Steps to Economic Recovery, Station WEVD
  • 1932 - Elected Honorary president, Henry George School of Social Science, New York (served through 1951)
  • 1933 - Wrote to Franklin Roosevelt that he recommended to Congress "an annual tax of at least one percent on the full assessed value of all taxable land in the United States exclusive of subsoil wealth or improvements in or on land."
  • 1936 - Article, "A Liberal Speaks Out for Liberalism," New York Times Magazine
  • 1936 - Address, at a meeting at the Henry George School, New York. Quote: "We who have studied Henry George known that they had merelby acquired the right to appropriate wealth from the community for the right to use that land."
  • 1936 - Address, The Henry George School, at a meeting of the Henry George Fellowship, May
  • 1936 - Article, "Sound Policy Impossible Under Present System of Land Ownership," The New Standard, 15 May
  • 1936 - Article, How the Henry George School of Social Science is Combatting Social Illiteracy, The New Standard, 15 May
  • 193x - Quote: "It is the thorough fusion of insight into actual facts and force, with recognition of their bearing upon what makes life worth living, that constitutes Henry George one of the world's great social philosophers. It would require less than the fingers of the two hands to enumerate those who, from Plato down, rnak with him."
  • 1939 - Letter, regarding the importance of Henry George's proposals and work of the Henry George School, to Henry Ford, The Freeman, November
  • 1942 - Letter, to trustees of Henry George School, New York. Reprinted in Land and Freedom, March-April 1942 - Article, Two Victims of Southern Land Monopoly, The Freeman, June
  • 1942 - Continuing to serve as honorary President of the Henry George School
Dewey,
Margaret F.
Illinois
(Aurora)
California
(San Diego)
  • 1975 - Moved from Chicago to California
  • 1993 - Letter, regarding her earlier association with the Henry George School, Illinois Georgist, Vol.5, No.1, Winter
Dexter,
D. Gilbert
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1890s - Became active in Single Tax movement
  • 1909 - Died
Dexter,
David H.
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  • Son of D. Gilbert Dexter
  • 1927 - Active in Single Tax movement
Diack,
Alexander S. (Dr.)
Michigan
(Detroit)
  • 1926 - Candidate for Governor, Commonwealth Land Party
Diamant,
Adam
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Dickey,
Hubert-Kenneth
...
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Dickey,
Luther S.
Illinois
  • 1910 - Attended Single Tax Conference, New York, NY, November
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
  • 1911 -Sent by the Single Tax Review to Vancouver, to "gather material for the history of the Single Tax in that city." (reportedly published in the May-June number)
Diedrick,
Harold
Michigan
(Detroit)
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
Dill,
William
New Jersey
  • 1928 - Candidate for governor. Quote from a speech delivered 9 October, Burlington: "A fundamental principle of economics is that what a man produces by his efforts should be his, to enjoy and dispose of as he pleases, and that what the community produces by community efforts should belong to those who have aided in its creation. It does seem reasonable that a substantial share of the land values created by public initiative and investment should be drawn upon by government through a higher tax on these values than is imposed on other ratables."
Dillard,
James Hardy
Virginia
(Charlottesville)
  • Profession: Professor
  • 1856 - Born, 24 October, Virginia
  • 1873 - Graduated from George Washington and Lee University
  • 1894 - Appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (to 1908)
  • 1908 - Elected President, Negro Rural School Fund
  • 1920 - Photograph
  • 1928 - Received award from the Harmon Foundation for his work on race harmony
  • 1931 - Letter, to the boards of the Slater and Jeanes Foundation, regarding the problems caused by the low effective rate of taxation on agricultural land in Alabama
  • 1934 - Letter, praising Land and Freedom. Quote: "My congratulations on the paper and your constantly excellent issues."
  • 1935 - Letter, Land and Freedom, July-August. Quote: "I have known these really great men, men who were great in themselves, or men who were counted great because of some high position they held. They were John Fiske, Henry George and Booker Washington."
  • 1940 - Died
Diller,
J.W.
Missouri
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, November
Dillon,
John J.
New York
  • 1856 - Born
  • 1892 - Became Editor and Pubisher, the Rural New Yorker (remaining as editor at least until 1938)
  • 1914 - Appointed President, New York State Agricultural Society, January
  • 19-- - Serving as Chairman, Committee on Marketing, Transportation and Grievances
  • 1917 - Article, "The War and Food Problems," The Public, Vol.20
  • 1921 - Article, Rent Theory and the Single Tax Program, Single Tax Review, November-December
  • 1938 - Photograph
  • 1950 - Died
Dinkens,
Mary
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
Dinkins,
Mary
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
Dinkins,
S.M.
Alabama
(Selma)
  • Profession: professor
  • 1866 - Born
  • 188x - Graduated from West Point
  • 1930 - Described by Ema Knips as: "the Phil Sheridan of the Georgist movement."
  • 1930 - Candidate for the state senate
  • 1933 - Died (age 77)
Dinkins,
William H.
Alabama
(Selma)
  • 1924 - First introduced to Henry George's ideas reading James R. Brown's Plain Talk on Taxation
  • 1935-36 - Instructor, Fundamental Economics, Henry George School
  • 1936 - Serving as President, Selma University
  • 1943 - Instructor, Fundamental Economics, Henry George School
  • 1944 - Serving as President, Selma University, Selma, Alabama
  • 1944 - Letter, regarding his experiences in the Georgist movement, Henry George News, March
Dintenfass,
Mark M.
New Jersey
(Palisade)
(Grantwood)
  • 1878 - Born (Austria)
  • 188x - Resided in Philadelphia, where he first heard of Henry George from Single Tax advocates "one the street corner." He joined the Single Tax Party and was elected to its Executive Committee
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
  • 1919 - Candidate for Governor of New Jersey
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
  • 1929 - Wrote letters on New Jersey Water Supply in a number of newspapers
  • 1930 - Leter, regarding the Pittsburgh Graded Tax Plan. Quote: "... nothing less than the collecting by the government of the full yearly rent of land in lieu of all taxes will afford a complete and permanent relief for the manifold burdens that now beset humanity."
  • 1933 - Died, 23 November (age 55)
Dion,
Joseph
California
(Los Angeles)
  • 1918 - Letter, Everyman, January, in which he wrote: "I see deserted firesides, bleeding hearts, blasted hopes, thwarted matings, infirmities, disease, war, and poverty sapping human life. Only a perverted consciousnes of the relationship of man to the Almighty can account for things as they are. The Great Adventure is to open the way to change all this. Whatsoever is designed to hinder its onslaught upon Privilege tends to maintain the wolfish scheme of things -- prussianism."
DiPietro,
Joseph A.
Pennsylvania
(Bradenville)
  • 1959 - Letter printed, Henry George News, October
  • 1965 - Letter regarding profiting from land speculation, Henry George News, November
Dirks,
Bernard
Connecticut
(Greenfield)
  • 1936 - Serving as an instructor, Henry George School extension
Dix,
Caroline L.
...
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
Dix,
James A.
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 19-- - Secretary, Pennsylvania Single Tax Party
Dix,
James H.
...
  • 1917 - Telegram, "Call of The Great Adventure," regarding the Single Tax conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April. Reprinted in Everyman, March
  • 1939 - Presided at the Henry George School graduation, 6 January
Dix,
Jannette R.
...
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
Dix,
John W.
Pennsylvania
(Ardmore, Delaware County)
  • 1915 - Member, Single Tax Party of Philadelphia
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
  • 1926 - Member, Commonwealth Land Party
  • 1927 - Editor, The Commonwealth
  • 1927 - Elected Chairman, Pennsylvania State Committee of the Commonwealth Land Party
Dixon,
William
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  • 1980 - Served on board of Henry George School, Los Angeles
Dixwell,
George Basil
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