Background
Maccormick, Austin Harbutt was born on April 20, 1893 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. Son of Review Donold and Jean (Green) MacC.
Maccormick, Austin Harbutt was born on April 20, 1893 in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. Son of Review Donold and Jean (Green) MacC.
Came to the United States, 1893. Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1915, honorary Doctor of Science, 1934. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1916.
Honorary Doctor of Laws, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 1937.
Instructor, Bowdoin College, 1916-1917. Executive officer United States Naval Prison, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1917-1921. Alumni secretary Bowdoin College, 1921-1928.
Assistant to president Bennington (Vermont) College, 1928-1929.
Assistant director United States Bureau Prisons, 1929-1933. Commissioner of correction, New York City, 1934-1940.
Executive director The Osborne Association, Incorporated., New York City, from 1940. Professor criminology University of California, 1951-1960.
Consultant President's Crime Commission, 1966.
Chief consultant Arkansas Penitentiary Study Commission, 1967.
Served in United States Naval Reserve Force, 1917-1921, ensign to Lieutenant senior grade. Member of the board of directors Madison Square Boys. Member Social Hygiene Committee, New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.
Member commission on youth and justice, Community Service Society.
Member of the board overseers Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. President American Prison Association, 1938-1939, National Prisoners’ Aid Association, 1941-1942, American Association Adult Education 1943-1944, National Conference Juvenile Agencies 1943-1944.
Member President's Advisory Commision on Narcotic and Drug Abuse, 1963. Member National Jail Association (Executive Board), Society Prevention of Crime (Executive Board).
Chairman New York State commission on youth correction authority plan, commission on Mental Hygiene Services in Manhattan Children’s Court, American Prison Association Committee on Postwar Planning, Chairman of the Board consultants to under-secretary of war on military prisons.
Member Citizens Union (executive board). Congregationalist. Member secretary of Navy’s advising committee on confinement policies, 1948.
Received war department exceptional civilian service award, 1945.
Married Gertrude Albion, December 15, 1917. Married second, Patricia Welling, January 6, 1936. Children: Joan, James A.