The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . rth and to three succeeding Federal Con-gresses. From 1885 to 188S he was United Statescommissioner of Indian affairs. ATKINSON, Edward, economist, was born inBrookline, Massachusetts, Feb. 10, 1827, and was educated at various pri-vate schools and at Dart-mouth College. He re-sides chiefly in Boston,where he is engaged inthe business of insurance,but is best known as aneconomic statistician andfrequent writer on socialand industrial magazines. He hasconcerned himself withthe reduction of the c
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . rth and to three succeeding Federal Con-gresses. From 1885 to 188S he was United Statescommissioner of Indian affairs. ATKINSON, Edward, economist, was born inBrookline, Massachusetts, Feb. 10, 1827, and was educated at various pri-vate schools and at Dart-mouth College. He re-sides chiefly in Boston,where he is engaged inthe business of insurance,but is best known as aneconomic statistician andfrequent writer on socialand industrial magazines. He hasconcerned himself withthe reduction of the costof food, and has inventedEDWARD ATKINSON. the Aladdin oven, adevice for preserving the nutritious qualities offood while cooking, with the least consumption offuel. He has delivered numerous public addresseson banking, labor, manufacturing, railways andfood-consumption. Among his books and pam-phlets may be mentioned Labor and Capital; TheDistribution of Products; The Railtuay and theFarmer; The Railroads of the United States; TheIndustrial Progress of the Nation; and The Science. of Nutrition. He advocated free-trade theoriesand new plans of insurance, but became mostwidely known by his optimistic monographs relat-ing to the welfare of wage-earners and the bestuse of their resources. ATKINSON, George W., Congressman, wasborn at Charleston, West Virginia, June 29, graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University in1870, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in1875. He was for four years United States mar-shal for the district of West Virginia; for six yearspostmaster of Charleston, West Virginia, and forsix years a revenue agent of the Treasury Depart-ment. He was elected as a Republican from WestVirginia to the Fifty-first Congress. ATKINSON, John Christopher, author andclergyman, was born at Goldhanger, Essex, Eng-land, in 1814. He was graduated at St. JohnsCollege, Cambridge, in 1838, and in 1847 wasappointed vicar of Danby, Yorkshire. The Uni-versity of Durham confer
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