Background
Falkner, Roland Post was born on April 14, 1866 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review John B. and Helen (Butler) Falkner.
Falkner, Roland Post was born on April 14, 1866 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review John B. and Helen (Butler) Falkner.
Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1885. Studied economics at Berlin, Leipzig and Halle-on-Saale, Doctor of Philosophy, Halle, 1888.
United States of America). Instructor in accounting and statistics, Wharton School of Finance and Economy, University of Pennsylvania, 1888-1891. Associate professor statistics, 1891-1900.
Chief division of documents, Library of Congress, 1900-1904.
Commissioner of education, Puerto Rico, 1904-1907. Statistician in charge of school inquiries for United States Immigration Commission, 1908-1911.
Assistant director United States Census, 1911-1912. Member Joint Land Commission, United States and Panama, 1913.
Editor, 1915-1923, director of research, 1923-1926, Alexander Hamilton Institute, New New York
Research staff National Industrial Conference Board, since 1926. Statistician, United States Senate Committee of Finance, 1891. Secretary United States delegate International Monetary Conference, 1892, and secretary of conference.
Chairman United States commission to Republic of Liberia, 1909.
Translator: The History, Theory and Technique of Statistics, by August Meitzen, 1891. Editor, Annals American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1890-1900.
Report of Statistician on Wholesale Prices and Wages, Aldrich Report, 1892. Home: East Orange, New Jersey.
Member Joint Land Commission, United States and Panama, 1913.
Married Agnes I. Hamilton, April. Children: Charles Hamilton (deceased), Elizabeth Helen (Mistress Harold F. Schmehl), Helen Butler (Mistress William H. Sargeant), Francis Howard (captain.