A Plan For The Reduction Of Juvenile Delinquency By Community Effort (1920)
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The Development of American Prisons and Prison Customs, 1776-1845: With Special Reference to Early Institutions in the State of New York (1922)
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Alternative Exercises to Accompany Part I. Of the Joynes-Meissner German Grammar (Classic Reprint)
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Orlando Faulkland Lewis was an American social worker, penologist, and author. He was also an editor of the monthly journal, The Delinquent.
Background
Orlando Faulkland Lewis was born on September 5, 1873, at Boston, Massachusetts, United States; the younger son of John Jay Lewis and Abbie Goodwin (Davis) Lewis. On his father's side, he was a descendant of George Lewis, who came from East Greenwich, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 1630; on his mother's, of William Davis who, according to family tradition, emigrated to Massachusetts from Wales about 1635. His father was a Universalist minister, who, about 1890, gave up his pastorate for the lecture platform; his mother was a successful writer for children's magazines. Both were energetic and had many affiliations with religious, social, and civic undertakings.
Education
Lewis was educated in the Boston schools but spent the last two years before entering college in Munich, Germany, where his brother was enrolled in the Royal Conservatory. In 1892 he matriculated at Tufts College, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1895, and a master's degree after two years as a graduate student and instructor in modern languages. A brief period of foreign study in Munich and at the Sorbonne was followed by graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 1900, he was granted a doctorate in Germanic languages. Later he attended the summer course under the sociologist Charles R. Henderson at the University of Chicago which interested him in the work of social betterment.
Career
Lewis started his career as a teacher of modern languages at the University of Maine but work did not give him the stimulus and the mental satisfaction which he craved. In 1905 he became superintendent of the Joint Application Bureau of the Charity Organization Society in New York City. Articles published by him subsequently show that he was profoundly interested at this time in the vagrant, in the child laborer, and in health problems.
In 1908 he joined the faculty of the School of Philanthropy. In 1910 he was elected general secretary of the Prison Association of New York, and in the work of aiding confined or released prisoners and their families and in the struggle for the application of modern penological principles, his sympathetic personality reached its full expression. In 1922 he published The Development of American Prisons and Prison Customs, 1776-1845.
From 1911 to 1918 he also issued a monthly journal, The Delinquent. Excursions into the field of politics convinced him that he was temperamentally unfit to "play the game. " Toward the end of his life he became aware of a talent which gave him, perhaps, as much pleasure as did his vocation, the writing of short stories. His products won immediate acceptance, and several found a place in anthologies of "best stories, " among them "Alma Mater" and "The Get Away".
Achievements
His most scholarly work was his book on prison history "The Development of American Prisons and Prison Customs, 1776-1845" , unequaled by any other publication for the period it covered. He was also awarded as the writer of short stories with O. Henry Memorial Award: Prize Stories of 1920 and of 1921.
