Background
Galpin, Charles Josiah was born on March 16, 1864 in Hamilton, New York, United States. Son of Leman Quintilian and Frances Cordelia (Look) Galpin.
Galpin, Charles Josiah was born on March 16, 1864 in Hamilton, New York, United States. Son of Leman Quintilian and Frances Cordelia (Look) Galpin.
Bachelor of Arts, Colgate University, 1885, Master of Arts, 1888 (Doctor of Letters, 1919). Master of Arts Harvard, 1895; studied Clark University, 1898, University of Wisconsin, 1908.
Professor history, Kalamazoo (Michigan) College, 1888-1891, principal Union Academy, Belleville, New York, 1891-1901. Baptist university pastor, University of Wisconsin 1905-1911. Assistant professor and associate professor agricultural economics, University of Wisconsin, 1911-1919.
Economist in charge Division of Farm Population and Rural Life, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia, from 1919 to 1934.
Editor of Century Rural Life Books. Studied rural problems in Europe, 1896, 1914, 1926.
United States delegate General Assembly International Institute Agriculture, Rome, 1926.
Member American Sociological Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon, American Country Life Association (Vice-President). Member International Institute Sociology. Member Czechoslovak Academy Agriculture, 1926.
Married Zoe North. Wickwire, of Hamilton, New York, June 22, 1887.