Background
Tostlebe, Alvin Samuel was born on December 27, 1894 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. Son of Julius Herman and Emma Walpurga (Eck) Tostlebe.
Tostlebe, Alvin Samuel was born on December 27, 1894 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. Son of Julius Herman and Emma Walpurga (Eck) Tostlebe.
AB, Iowa State Teachers College, 1916. AM, Columbia University, 1920. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1924.
Instructor Sioux Center (Iowa) High School, 1916-1917. Assistant professor economics University Vermont, 1920. Instructor finance, Wharton School, University Pennsylvania, 1920-1921.
Instructor economics, Columbia University, 1921-1924, associate in economics, 1924-1927. Professor economics, College Wooster, from 1927, head department, 1931-1960. Senior agricultural economist United States Department Agriculture, Washington, 1940-1941, principal agricultural economist, 1944-1945, 50-53, consultant 1946-1949.
Author: The Bank of North Dakota, 1924, (with W.E. Weld) A Casebook for Economics, 1927, (with others) Impact of the War on the Financial Structure of Agriculture, 1944, The Growth of Physical Capital in Agriculture 1870-1950, 1954, Capital in Agriculture: Its Formation and Financing Since 1870, 1957. Also articles and reviews.
Enlisted United States Navy, 1917. Commissioned ensign United States Naval Reserve Force, 1918, assigned to United States Ship Glacier. Member American Economic Association, Ohio Association Economists and Political Scientists (president 1961-1962).
Married Pearle Childress, August 30, 1922. Children: John Herman (deceased), Patricia Jane Tostlebe, Marcia Luanne Tostlebe Davis, Miriam Childress Tostlebe Thompson.