Background
Mears, Eliot Grinnell was born on February 1, 1889 in Worester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David Otis and Mary Chapin (Grinnell) Mears.
Mears, Eliot Grinnell was born on February 1, 1889 in Worester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David Otis and Mary Chapin (Grinnell) Mears.
Graduate Albany (New York) Academy, 1905, post-graduate work 1 year. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1910, Master of Business Administration, 1912. Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College, 1932.
Secretary and instructor in public utilities operation, Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, 1912-1916. Efficiency engineer, Day & Zimmerman, Philadelphia, 1913. With United States Bureau Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1916-1920, organizer and chief of Trade Commissioner Division, chief of Commercial Attache Division, acting chief European Division and American trade commissioner in Near East.
Commercial attache to American High Commissioner in Turkey, 1919-1920.
Member faculty Western Summer School for Commercial Organization Executives, Stanford University, 1923, 24. Executive secretary Survey of Race Relations 1924-1936.
Acting professor and lecturer economics, same university, 1921-1925, professor geography and international trade, Graduate School of Business, since 1925, and director summer quarter 1932-1942. War Shipping Administration, 1942.
Economic member American Military Mission to Armenia and Transcaucasia, under Major General J. G. Harbord, United States Army, 1919.
Permanent secretary Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference, Honolulu, 1922. Member Institute of Pacific Relations Conference, Honolulu, 1927. Visiting professor Institute Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva, 1929-1930, lecturer, 1938.
Delegate International.
Chamber of Commerce, Amsterdam, Holland, 1929. Delivered address at inauguration Greek Centenary, Athens, 1930.
Carnegie visiting professor to Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Vienna, Istanbul, Athens, Jerusalem, American Near East Colleges, 1930. Official delegate Pan-American Institute of Geography and History, Lima, Peru, 1941.
Director Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace.
Member faculty Western Summer School for Commercial Organization Executives, Stanford University, 1923, 24. Member Institute of Pacific Relations Conference, Honolulu, 1927. Member Institute of World Affairs (executive committee), American Geography Society, American Economics Association, American Statistical Association, Institute of Pacific Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Incorporated., PEN, California History Society, Association of America Geographers, Association Pacific Coast Geographers (president), Sociedad Geográfica de Lima, New York Academy of Sciences, American Geophysical Union.
Fellow Royal Society of Arts, Royal Economic Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Academy Sciences.
Clubs: Bohemian Commonwealth, Harvard (San Francisco).
Married Gladys Chute, June 10, 1914. Children: Helen (Mistress Weldon B. Gibson), Dorothy Chute (Mistress Oliver I. Allen), Julianne.