Ralph Gibney Hurlin

Ralph Gibney Hurlin also in the spelling variant Ralph G. Hurlin (born September 30, 1888 in Antrim , Hillsborough County , New Hampshire , † November 14, 1992 in Savannah , Chatham County , Georgia ) was an American statistician .

Life

Family and education

Ralph Gibney Hurlin, son of Henry Albert Hurlin and his wife Mary Mernetta Gibney, from the small town of Antrim in Hillsborough County , New Hampshire, graduated from Colby Academy in New London, New Hampshire, in 1908 after attending public schools. Subsequently he turned to the study of biology at Brown University in Providence in the State of Maine to, there he acquired in 1912 the degree of Bachelor of Arts , in 1915 his promotion to the Ph. D.

Ralph Gibney Hurlin's first marriage was on June 14, 1916, Helen Humphry Wood (1892-1956), who was born in Providence. The daughters Barbara Starr and Mary Wood came from this connection. In 1968, Hurlin married the retired teacher Marion Clifton Conneff (1899-2002). Ralph Gibney Hurlin, who moved from Jackson Heights to Savannah in New York after his retirement , died there in November 1992 after a long illness at the old age of 104 in the Hospice House.

Professional background

Ralph Gibney Hurlin was an Assistant in Biology while studying at Brown University . After graduation, he followed a call as an instructor in biology at Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts , where he was promoted to assistant professor in 1916 . In June 1918, Hurlin joined the US Army as Chief of the Report Section of the Statistics Branch of the War Department in Washington, DC . Hurlin, who held the rank of first lieutenant , later that of captain , and finally that of a major , resigned in October 1919.

Immediately afterwards, Ralph Gibney Hurlin moved to the position of Statistician at the Russell Sage Foundation in Manhattan , New York City, where he was appointed Director of the Department of Statistics in 1920 . Hurlin was also from 1931 to 1935 as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Statistics of the New York State Department of Social Welfare , from 1934 to 1935 as Director of the Division of Statistics of the New York City Emergency Relief Bureau and from 1932 as a Consultant in Social Statistics of the United States Children's Bureau established , 1963 he resigned from his functions.

Ralph Gibney Hurlin, who stood out in particular with his social statistical treatises, held a fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as membership in the American Statistical Association , where he held the office of Vice President of the American Economic Association between 1928 and 1929 , the American Sociological Association , the Academy of Political Science, the American Genetic Association, the American Association of Social Workers, the Phi Beta Kappa , the Sigma Xi and the Delta Upsilon.

Fonts

• together with William Arthur Berridge: Employment statistics for the United States: a plan for their national collection and a handbook of methods recommended by the Committee on governmental labor statistics of the American statistical association, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1926
• Salaries and vacations in family case work in 1929, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1930
• with Margaret Hope Hogg: The incidence of work shortage; report of a survey by sample of families made in New Haven, Connecticut, in May-June, 1931, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1932
• Salaries in medical social work in 1937, in: Pamphlets (Russell Sage Foundation. Department of Statistics), St. 9., Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1938
• Statistics in the administration of a public welfare program, in: Papers on relief statistics, no.5, Joint Committee on Relief Statistics of the American Public Welfare Association and the American Statistical Association, New York, 1938
• Salaries and qualifications of child welfare workers in 1941, in: Pamphlets (Russell Sage Foundation. Department of Statistics), St. 11., Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1943
• Salaries and qualifications of YWCA professional workers, in: Pamphlets (Russell Sage Foundation. Department of Statistics), St. 12. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1943
• Operation statistics of selected family casework agencies, 1945: withe trend data for the period 1936 to 1945, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1946
• together with Sadie Saffian, Carl Epler Rice: Causes of blindness among recipients of aid to the blind, Federal Security Agency, Social Security Administration, Bureau of Public Assistance, Washington, DC, 1947
• Scheduled salaries for social work positions in hospitals in New York city, December, 1946, in: Pamphlets (Russell Sage Foundation. Department of Statistics), St. 20., Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1947

literature

• American Economic Association: Handbook of the American Economic Association, The Association, Menasha, Wis., 1922, p. 28.
• The Monthly supplement, International Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1951, p. 692.
• Who was who in America. : volume VIII, 1982-1985 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1985, p. 202.
• Savannah Morning News, Monday November 16, 1992, JH Estill, Savannah, Ga., 1992, p. 5.
• American Statistical Association: AMSTAT news, No. 204 , American Statistical Association. etc., Alexandria, Va., 1993, p. 46.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralph Gibney Hurlin in the WorldCat bibliographic database