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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
Oakwood,
Elliott F.
Michigan
(Detroit)
(Birmingham)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
  • 1960 - Took Fundamental Economics course at Henry George School
Oastler,
James F.
New York
(New York)
  • 1935 - Attended Henry George Congress, New York, NY
Oatman,
Bruce
New York
(New York)
  • 199- - Elected to board, Henry George School of Social Science, New York
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
  • 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Evanston, IL, July
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
  • 2009 - Died, 17 August
O'Brien,
David
California
(Los Angeles)
(Lakewood)
  • 1985 - Participated in Georgist Catholic group visit to the Vatican
  • 198- - Elected director, Common Ground USA
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia PA
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
O'Brien,
E.A.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
O'Brien,
Mary E.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
O'Brien,
R.M.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
OCALA FARMERS ALLIANCE ...
  • 1890 - Southern black farmers, meeting separately, declared, "land belongs to the sovereign people," and voted for a resolution favoring the single tax
O'Connor,
Elaine
New York
(New York)
  • 1970 - Letter, regarding welsare recipients, Henry George News, March
O'Connor,
Irene
Delaware
(Arden)
  • 2001 - Attended International Union conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
O'Connor,
William J.
...
  • 1958 - Article, "Domestic Aspects of Protectionism," Henry George News, July
O'Connor,
William S.
New York
(New York)
  • 1938 - Attended Henry George Congress, Toronto, Ontario; 7-9 September
  • 1942 - On Paying for the War, The Freeman, September
  • 1967 - Served on board, Henry George School, New York, NY
  • 1970 - Served on board, Henry George School, New York, NY
Ochs,
Jack N.
Pennsylvania
(Allegheny County)
  • 1974 - Member, Graded Tax League of Pennsylvania
Odell,
Theodore
Wisconsin
(Madison)
  • 1989 - Registered for Joint Georgist conference, Philadelphia; but cancelled
Odell,
Thomas
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
O'Donnell,
Edward T.
...
  • 1997 - Address, "The Talisman of Lost Hope: Henry George and the Formation of a Working-Class Political Economy," at the International Conference on Henry George, Cooper Union, New York, NY, 1 November
O'Donnell,
Jack
California
(San Diego)
  • 1987 - Delivered talk, "The Value of Money," at CGO conference, San Diego, July
O'Donnell,
John B.
...
Oesleby,
Nils C.
Wisconsin
(Eau Claire)
  • 1967 - Letter, Henry George News, October
Ogden,
William J.
Maryland
(Baltimore)
  • 1890 - Serving as President, Single Tax League of Maryland
  • 1890 - Attended National Conference of Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York City, September
  • 1935 - Book, A Tax Talk To Business Men
Ogle
...
New York
(New York)
  • 1932 - one of founders of Henry George School, NY
  • Secretary of Maryland Tax Reform Association
  • 1932 - Died
Ogle
Dora (Mrs.)
New York
(New York)
  • Leader in woman's suffrage movement
  • 1940 - Attended Henry George Foundation of America Congress, Washington, DC; 25-27 September
  • 1960 - Died, March 7, age 77
Ogle,
Charles J.
Maryland
(Baltimore)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
  • 1928 - Letter, Land and Freedom, January-February
  • 1930 - Letter, agreeing with Harry Gunnison Brown's strategy, Land and Freedom, July-August
  • 1931 - Serving as Secretary, Maryland Tax Reform Association
Ogle,
Emerson Des Forges
Maryland
(Catonsville)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
Ogle,
J.
Maryland
(Baltimore)
  • 1915 - Serving as Secretary, Maryland Single Tax League
OHIO SINGLE TAXER
...
  • 1928 - Established as the organ of the Ohio Single Tax Party
Ohman,
Harry G.
Michigan
(Highland Park)
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
Olcott,
Dorothy M.
Illinois
(Chicago)
California
(Lotus)
  • 1938 - Attended Henry George Congress, Toronto, Ontario; 7-9 September
  • 1940 - Elected Director, Henry George Woman's Club
  • 1940 - Address, report on Henry George Congress held in Washington, D.C., September and at the Henry George Woman's Club, 13 November
  • 1949 - Serving as a member, Henry George Women's Club
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
  • 1960 - Attended henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
Olcott,
George C.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • Profession: Real estate appraiser
  • 1858 - Born, 29 January
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
  • 19-- - Paper, "Chicago's Amazing Growth"
  • 1927 - Involved in the effort to reorganize the Single Tax Club of Chicago
  • 1927 - Address, "Valuation of Urban Land," at the Henry George Congress, September
  • 1929 - Address, on "Chicago's Tax Muddle," delivered at the Henry George Congress, Pittsburgh, PA, September
  • 1930 - Article, "Chicago's financial Difficulties," Land and Freedom, March-April
  • 1931 - Elected to the board of the newly-formed Single Tax League
  • 1937 - Attended Henry George Congress, Detroit, Michigan; 14-16 October
  • 1932 - Paper, "Methods of Determining Land Values Under the Single Tax," at Henry George Congress, Memphis
  • 1936 - Article, "Stop the Leak, A Story with a Moral," Land and Freedom, March-April
  • 1938 - Article, "How to Determine Land Values Under the Single Tax," Henry George Fellowship News, June
  • 1938 - Attended Henry George Congress, Toronto, Ontario; 7-9 September
  • 1942 - Article, "Chicago's Amazing Growth," Land and Freedom, January-February
  • 1942 - Died, 17 July (age 84)
Olcott,
George N.
New York
(Brooklyn)
  • 1888 - Elected Treasurer, Brooklyn Single Tax Club
Oldendorff,
Zella P.
New York
(New York)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist conference, Philadelphia, PA
Olerich,
Henry
Nebraska
  • 1851 - Born (Nebraska)
  • 1893 - Novel, A Cityless and Countryless World, and Outline of Practical Cooperative Individualism, published by Gilmore & Olerich, Holstein, Iowa
  • 1900 - Photograph
  • 1900 - Photograph
  • 1902 - Moved to Omaha, Nebraska
  • 1900s - Occasionally contributed articles to Liberty and to The Twentieth Century
  • 1915 - Book, Modern Paradise, an Outline or Story of How Some of the Cultured People will Probably Live, Work and Organize in the Near Future, Equality Publishing Co., Omaha, Nebraska
  • 1927 - Died (never able to raise funds to construct his utopian community)
Oliver,
Andrew
Massachusetts
(Brookline)
  • 1870 - Born
  • 1891 - Graduated from Harvard University
  • 1958 - Article, "I Was A Watcher for Henry George," Henry George News, January
Oliver,
James Eugene
...
Olmstead,
I (Miss)
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Olney,
Harry W.
District of Columbia
(Washington)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
  • 1926 - Elected to the National Advisory Committee of the Henry George Foundation of America
  • 1952 - Attended International Union conference, Odense, Denmark
Olson, Carlton
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
  • 1960 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Detroit, MI
Olson,
Mina
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1949 - Member, Henry George Woman's Club
  • 1950s - Active with the Henry George School, Chicago, thru the 1970s
  • 1963 - Executive Secretary, Henry George School extension
  • 1967 - Attended Henry George School conference, Montreal, Quebec; July
  • 1968 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Miami Beach, FL
  • 1969 - Attended Henry George School conference, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1969 - Serving as Executive Secretary, Henry George School, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1970 - Attended Henry George School conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • 1970 - Executive Secretary, Henry George School, Chicago
  • 1976 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Evanston, IL
  • 1977 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • 1984 - Honored by Henry George Club, April
  • 1985 - Moved to Wisconsin
  • 2003 - Died, June
O'Mara,
Michael
Maryland
(Baltimore)
O'Neal,
Clifford C.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 19-- - Born, Alabama
  • 1940 - Instructor, Henry George School
  • 1940 - Address, "Cornucopia or Calamity?" at Henry George Fellowship meeting, 2 October
O'Neill,
Augustus
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1917 - Recruited Francis Neilson to run for the U.S. Senate (after Neilson became eligible as a nationalized citizen)
O'Neill,
Henry J.
Pennsylvania
(Allentown)
  • 1900s - Active in Single Tax movement
  • 1926 - Died
O'Neill,
Joseph T.
New York
(Brooklyn)
  • 1888 - Member, Executive Committee, Brooklyn Single Tax Club
  • 1890 - Attended National Conference of Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York City, September
O'Neill,
Mitchael C.
Massachusetts
(Brookline)
  • 1863 - Born
  • 1919 - Member, Massachusetts Single Tax Party
  • 1940 - Died
O'Neill,
William Owen ("Bucky")
Arizona
(Prescott)
  • 1860 - Born, 2 February (location not certain)
  • 1882 - Founded Hoof and Horn, a newspaper in Prescott, Arizona
  • 1888 - Elected County Sheriff, then mayor of Prescott
  • 1890s- Achieved an increase in the tax on land values
  • 1898 - Enlisted in the Rough Riders as a captain; killed in action in Cuba, 1 July
Onesti,
Peter
...
Onweiler,
Bill
Idaho
  • 1976 - Delivered a talk on Idaho land data at Henry George Foundation conference, Evanston, IL, July
Opitz,
Edmund A. (Rev.)
Pennsylvania
(Harrisburg)
Oppenheimer,
Franz
...
O'Reilly,
Mary
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Orem,
A.J.
Massachusetts
(Boston)
  • 1921 - Pamphlet, Taxation, published
Orleans,
Godfrey P.
...
Orloff,
Cathy C.
Rhode Island
(Providence)
  • 1978 - Co-founded Marylanders United for the Single Tax
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
  • 198- - Appointed director, Henry Geroge School, San Francisco
  • 1981 - Moved to Winston-Salem NC area, offers Henry George course
  • 1992 - Article, "Free Enterprise Without Monopoly," (a statement prepared for the Rhode Island Council of Churches), Georgist Journal, Winter 1993 - Organized summer program at Brown Univesity in Providence, RI
  • 2006 - Letter, "Property Tax Actually Keeps Land Values Low," GroundSwell, July-August
Orr,
John
...
  • 191- - Book, Taxation of Land Values, published
Ortis,
Beatrice
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1940 - Elected Director, Henry George Woman's Club
Ortis,
Charles
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1941 - Painted a portrait of Henry George, which he donated to the Henry George School
Orton,
G.M.
Oregon
  • 1914 - Active in Single Tax movement
Orton,
Jesse S.
...
  • 1909 - Serving as Secretary, Reform Club of New York City (located at 42 Broadway)
Orzechowski,
Victor (Dr.)
Michigan
(Detroit)
  • 1926 - Returned to Warsaw, Poland to concentrate on translating Henry George's works into Polish
Osborne,
Edmund B.
New Jersey
(Newark)
  • Profession: manufacturer
  • 1916 - Elected to state senate, but died after only one month in office
  • 1921 - A debate, Should Citizens Vote for Socialist Candidates, beween Edmund Osborne and George H. Goebel, 7 March; Single Tax Review
Osborne,
Florence
Connecticut
(Hartford)
  • 1944 - Elected corresponding secretary, Henry George Fellowship
Osborne,
Thomas Mott
New York
(Auburn)
  • 19-- - Active Single Tax supporter and advocate for prison reform
  • 19-- - Served as mayor of Auburn
  • 1926 - Died
O'Shaughnessy,
Marjorie
New York
  • 1944 - Attended Henry George School conference, Chicago, Illinois
Orvis,
Oreda
...
  • 1969 - Attended Henry George School conference, Chicago, Illinois
Osinga,
G.A.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Osman,
Arlino
California
(Pasadena)
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Ossias,
C. Matthew
New York
(New York)
  • 1939 - Took Fundamental Economics course, Henry George School
  • 1960 - translated Progress and Poverty lessons into Italian
  • 1960 - Appointed International Secretary, Henry George School
  • 1961 - Article, "The World Is Our Oyster," Henry George News, June
  • 1961 - Photograph
  • 1978 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • 1980 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1987 - Elected to the board, Henry George School, NY
Ossias,
Fryda
New York
(New York)
  • 1960 - Photograph
  • 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • 1979 - Elected trustee, Henry George School, NY
  • 19-- - Elected Treasurer, Henry George School, NY
  • 1980 - Attended Jont Georgist Conference, New York, NY
  • 1998 - Photograph
Ostergaard,
Soren K.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1940 - Book, Into Abundance (supporting land value taxation)
  • 1940 - Enrolled in Henry George classes
O'Toole,
Edward
New York
  • 1921 - Wrote a prize-winning essay on Henry George
Otten,
Alan L.
...
Otto,
Marvin
...
  • 1973 - Served on board, Henry George School of Northern California; President, Sacramento branch
Otto,
R.J.
Oregon
(Eugene)
  • 1940 - Pamphlet, Simple Statement of Economics, published
Ottoman,
Joseph
California
(San Diego)
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Owen,
Charles F.
Nebraska
(Omaha)
  • 1890 - Active in single tax movement
Owens,
Albert A.
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1940 - Member, Henry George School advisory council
Owens,
Herbert T.

  • 1942 - Article, "More on Assessments and Tax Rates," Land and Freedom, January-February
Owens,
P.J.
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1979 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, San Francisco, CA
Owsley,
Charles S.
Missouri
(Kansas City)
  • 1906 - Became Single Taxer after meeting Malcolm Mackay and William J. Flacy
  • 1936 - Died (age 82)
Ozarowsk,
Paul
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 2000 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Cleveland, Ohio