Background
Knauth, Oswald Whitman was born on June 3, 1887 in New York City. Son of Percival and Mary (Whitman) Knauth.
Knauth, Oswald Whitman was born on June 3, 1887 in New York City. Son of Percival and Mary (Whitman) Knauth.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1909. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1913.
Bank Note Company, 1909-1910. Instructor, later assistant professor economics Princeton, 1913-1916. Editorial writer New York Evening Post, 1916-1917.
Member of staff National Bureau Economics Research, Incorporated., 1919-1922.
Began with R. H. Macy & Company, 1922, becoming treasurer, 1933. President Associate Dry Goods Corporation, 1936-1943.
Assistant director Statistics Division, War Production Board, 1942. Consultant quartermaster general, 1942-1943, Army Supply Forces, 1942-1944.
Lecturer Columbia, 1948-1951, visiting professor, 1948-1954.
Member Retailers’ Advisory Committee to Office of Personnel Management. Member executive Defense Savings staff, New York State. Member Appeal Board Selective Service.
Served as First lieutenant 106th Field Artillery, United States Army, World War.
Executive director Emergency Relief Bureau New York, 1935. Trustee Twentieth Century Fund.
Member American Economics Association, American Statistical Association, National Economics League, Academy Political Science Republican. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington), Century, Harvard, Knickerbocker, Crusing of America.
Married Anna Dixwell Clements, September 29, 1911. Children: Oliver Dixwell, Basil Dixwell, Arnold Whitman World World War II With American.