Background
Hourwich, Isaac A. was born on April 26, 1860 in Wilno, Russia. Son of Adolph and Rebecca (Sheveliovich) Hourwich.
Hourwich, Isaac A. was born on April 26, 1860 in Wilno, Russia. Son of Adolph and Rebecca (Sheveliovich) Hourwich.
Graduate Classical Gymnasium, Minsk, 1877. Saint St. Petersburg Academy Medical and Surgical. University of Saint St. Petersburg.
Master of Laws, Demidov Juridical Lyceum, Yaroslavl, 1887.
Seligman fellow, Columbia, 1891-1892, Doctor of Philosophy, 1893.
Admitted to bar, Russia, 1887, Chicago, 1893, New York, 1896. Docent in statistics, University of Chicago, 1893-1895. Translator, bureau of the Mint, Washington, 1900-1902.
Expert special agent bureau of the Census, 1902-1906.
Statistician Public Service Commission, New York, 1908-1909. Expert special agent on mining, bureau of the Census, 1909-1913.
Lecturer on comparative commercial law, George Washington University, 1902-1903. Author: Immigration and Labor, 1912, second edition, 1922.
Mooted Questions of Socialism (in Yiddish), 1917.
Editor Yiddish translation of “Capital,” by Karl Marx, 1919.
Married Helen Kushelevsky, of Minsk, Russia, 1881. Married second, Louise Joffe, 1893.