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PHELPS, Roswell Foulk was born on April 22, 1877 in Milford, Delaware, United States. Son of William Griswold and Edith Catherine (Foulk) Phelps.
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Roswell Foulk PHELPS, American Director of Statistics, Department of Labor and Industries. Member: American Statistical Association; Boston Chapter (Secretary); Committee on Governmental Labor Statistics; Standish Shore Improvement Association (Secretary); Representative Town Meeting, Dedham, Massachusetts Clubs: Boston City, State Association.
Education
Public and High School. Mountain. Hermon Boys School. Amherst College, Bachelor of Science, 1899, Master of Arts, 1901.
Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts, 1900, Master of Arts, 1901.
Career
Bureau of Statistics, 1904-1919. Director of Statistics, Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, since 1920. Supervisor for Mass, of United States Census of Manufacturing and Distribution, 1930.
Author of numerous reports on statistics of labor and industries.
Membership
Member: American Statistical Association. Boston Chapter (Secretary). Committee on Governmental Labor Statistics.
Standish Shore Improvement Association (Secretary). Representative Town Meeting, Dedham, Massachusetts Clubs: Boston City, State Association.
Connections
Spouse Elizabeth Laing Gibb, October 5, Statistical Clerk, Editorial Assistant, Statistician and Chief Statistician in the Massachusetts.
