Richard T. Ely

Richard T. Ely (Richard Theodore Ely) was born on April 13, 1854, in Ripley, New York. He was an economist, writer, and historian, and he passed away on October 4, 1943, in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Ely studied at Columbia University and Heidelberg University. He was a doctoral advisor to a number of notable students, including Woodrow Wilson, Albion Woodbury Small, John R. Commons, Allyn Abbott Young, Harry Jerome, Edward Alsworth Ross, Lewis Henry Haney, Alvin Hansen, Henry Charles Taylor, Albert Shaw (journalist), David Kinley, George R. Wicker, Sidney Miller (headmaster), Henry B. Gardner, Sidney Sherwood, William Amasa Scott, and Charles J. Bullock. His own doctoral advisor was Karl Knies.