Background
Hunter, Wiles Robert was born on April 10, 1874 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of W. R. and Caroline (Fouts) Hunter.
Hunter, Wiles Robert was born on April 10, 1874 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of W. R. and Caroline (Fouts) Hunter.
Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, 1896.
Organizing secretary, Chicago bureau of Charities, 1896-1902. Chairman investigating committee City Homes Association. Superintendent Municipal Lodging House.
Member Small Parks Committee, resident Hull House, 1899-1902, all of Chicago.
Resident Toynbee Hall, London, summer 1899, and other English settlements. Organized dental clinics for poor children, and a municipal lodging house for vagrants in Chicago, 1901.
Head-worker University Settlement, New York, 1902-1903. Active in New York in promoting first anti-tuberculosis campaign and the movement to feed undernourished school children.
Chairman first New York committee for promoting legislation to abolish child labor, 1902-1906.
Joined Socialist Party, 1905, and was its candidate for New York Assembly and later its candidate for government of Connecticut (1910). Resigned from Socialist Party, 1914. Editorial writer, 1908-1910.
Lecturer on economics and English, University of California, 1918-1922.
Conducted seminar on the economic and political Causes of post-war revolutionary upheavals. President Berkeley communications of Public Charities, 1921.
Chairman English-Speaking Union, Santa Barbara, 1929-1930. Member special committee of National Economic League on the Monetary Problem of the United States, 1934-1938.
Member Small Parks Committee, resident Hull House, 1899-1902, all of Chicago. Clubs: Social Reform of New York (president 1905).
Married Caroline M. Phelps Stokes, May 23, 1903. Children: Robert, Phelps Stokes, Caroline Phelps, Helen Louisa (deceased).