Background
Wells, Philip Patterson was born on February 5, 1868 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Lewis Gray and Mary Ellen (Wetmore) Wells.
Wells, Philip Patterson was born on February 5, 1868 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Lewis Gray and Mary Ellen (Wetmore) Wells.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1889. Graduate School Yale (economics and history), 1889-1891, Doctor of Philosophy, 1900. Yale Law School, 1891-1892.
Law School, Columbian (now George Washington University, 1892-1893.
Admitted to Connecticut bar, 1893. Librarian Yale Law School, 1896-1906. Instructor evidence, Yale Law School, 1898-1899.
Lecturer in history, Yale University, 1902-1906.
Expert (law) in the United States Forest Service, 1906-1907, and chief law officer, 1907-1910. Chief law officer, United States Reclamation Service, May 1, 1911-March 31, 1913.
Counsel National Conservation Association Deputy attorney general Pennsylvania, 1923-1927. Member Pennsylvania Giant Power Survey Board, 1923-1925.
Chairman Pennsylvania Giant Power Board, 1925-1926.
Commissioner of Pennsylvania to negotiate Tri-State Compact for control of Delaware River, 1923-1927. Member American Political Science Association Author of papers and addresses on conservation of natural resources and on legal and bibliographical subjects in encyclopedias periodicals. Proposals for Legislation, in Pennsylvania Giant Power Report, 1925.
Joint author: Annotated Titles of Books on English and American History, 1903.
Editor: Literature of American History, Supplement, 1900-1904. Colonies of the World, by East. J. Paine (revised and in part rewritten), 1907.
South America, by Alfred Deberle (translation from the French and edited), 1907. Joint editor Young Folks’ Library, 1903.
American Library Association Catalog, 1904.
Joint editor and reporter sundry law reports. Home: Middletown, Connecticut Deceased.
Member Pennsylvania Giant Power Survey Board, 1923-1925. Member American Political Science Association.
Married Eleanor Duncan Munger, May 22, 1893. Children: Lewis Gray, Elizabeth.