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Delos Oscar Kinsman

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Delos Oscar Kinsman

Birth
Fayette, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
2 May 1948 (aged 79)
Maryland, USA
Burial
Suitland, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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He attended Platteville Normal College, now University of Wisconsin, Platteville, and graduated in 1891. His career was in education and he served as Principal at Stockbridge and West Salem, Wisconsin from 1891-1894. He then went back to school and received his BS in 1896 and his PhD in 1900.

According to the National Encyclopedia of American Biography, he held the following positions: Expert assistant to the Wisconsin State Tax Commission in 1900 and in the following year was appointed professor of social sciences at Whitewater Normal College, now University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He held this position until 1916. In that year and for ten years to follow, he was professor of economics at Lawrence College at Appleton. The year 1926 brought him to Washington D.C. where he was professor at the American University, a post he kept to his retirement in 1938.

Achievements in his career included a 1911 draft of the Wisconsin State Income Tax, which was the first successful law of its kind in the United States. Because of the success of this law, it was made a model for other states to follow. His papers included drafts of the bill, speeches and correspondence with Wisconsin Governor McGovern, Charles McCarthy and other government officials are in the collections at the Wisconsin State Archieves in Madison, Wisconsin. Delos was the author of The Income Tax in the Commonwealth of the United States (1903), Local Government in Wisconsin (1913), Essentials of Civics (1919), Economics: or the Science of Business (1927), Man in the Making (1934), and Our Economic World (1937).
Contributor: Doug Hooper (47401292) • [email protected]
He attended Platteville Normal College, now University of Wisconsin, Platteville, and graduated in 1891. His career was in education and he served as Principal at Stockbridge and West Salem, Wisconsin from 1891-1894. He then went back to school and received his BS in 1896 and his PhD in 1900.

According to the National Encyclopedia of American Biography, he held the following positions: Expert assistant to the Wisconsin State Tax Commission in 1900 and in the following year was appointed professor of social sciences at Whitewater Normal College, now University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He held this position until 1916. In that year and for ten years to follow, he was professor of economics at Lawrence College at Appleton. The year 1926 brought him to Washington D.C. where he was professor at the American University, a post he kept to his retirement in 1938.

Achievements in his career included a 1911 draft of the Wisconsin State Income Tax, which was the first successful law of its kind in the United States. Because of the success of this law, it was made a model for other states to follow. His papers included drafts of the bill, speeches and correspondence with Wisconsin Governor McGovern, Charles McCarthy and other government officials are in the collections at the Wisconsin State Archieves in Madison, Wisconsin. Delos was the author of The Income Tax in the Commonwealth of the United States (1903), Local Government in Wisconsin (1913), Essentials of Civics (1919), Economics: or the Science of Business (1927), Man in the Making (1934), and Our Economic World (1937).
Contributor: Doug Hooper (47401292) • [email protected]

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