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William Marshall Fitts Round was born at Pawtucket, R. I, the son of a Baptist minister, Daniel Round, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Fitts.
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William Marshall Fitts Round
Edit ProfileEducation
He attended the public schools and studied for a while at the Harvard Medical School, but ill health prevented his graduation. Brown University in 1892 bestowed upon him the honorary degree of master of arts.
Career
Shortly after his attendance at Harvard he entered upon journalistic work, being connected at different times with the Boston Daily News, the New York Independent, the Golden Rule (Boston), and other papers. In 1872 he was appointed United States commissioner to the world's fair to be held in Vienna the following year, and there had charge of the New England department.
Interested in plans for social betterment, Round was chosen in 1881 a member of the executive committee of the Prison Association of New York, and in 1882 became its corresponding secretary. Among the purposes of this body were the amelioration of conditions of prisoners, improvement in government and discipline of prisons (county, municipal and state), and assistance to released prisoners; it also possessed legal powers of inspection of county jails and prisons. Round threw himself into the work with persistence and vigor. His are among the most relentless and illuminating descriptions that have been written of the overcrowding, idleness, filth, and political corruption of county jails; and improvement followed his efforts.
In 1883 he assisted in the reorganization of the National Prison Association, the name of which was changed in 1908 to American Prison Association; for a few years he was its secretary. In 1887 he was called by Frederick G. Burnham as advisor in connection with a plan for establishing a farm school for unmanageable boys, and was subsequently the virtual director of the Burnham Industrial Farm at Canaan, N. Y. , for several years. He introduced the cottage housing system, and what was then called the "mill" system by which, through good conduct, extra privileges might be earned. In part, his ideas were drawn from the system established by Wichern at the Rauhe Haus near Hamburg and from that of F. A. Demetz at Mettray, France. Among the employees at Canaan, Round founded the non-sectarian Order of St. Christopher, as a training order for workers in public institutions.
After leaving the Burnham Industrial Farm he lived for a while at College Point, Long Island, and there had charge of a small orphan asylum. Because of failing health he resigned his position as secretary of the Prison Association of New York in 1900. Earlier in his life, under the pen name of Rev. Peter Pennot, Round had published several novels, among which were: Achsah: a New England Life Study (1876), Torn and Mended, a Christmas Story (copyright 1877); Child Marian Abroad (1878); Hal, the Story of a Clodhopper (1880); and Rosecroft, a Story of Common Places and Common People (1881).
In the latter part of his life his work was in Boston, and there in 1903 he was associated with Edward Everett Hale in the publication of the Lend a Hand Record. He died at Acushnet, Massachussets, survived by his wife.
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Round was known as a the leader of the campaign aimed to change the prison system in the USA. As a member of the executive committee of the Prison Association, Round gave strong support to movements for the indeterminate sentence, the development of systems of parole, establishment of suitable prison industries, and mitigation of severe physical punishments in penal institutions. He even advocated curtailment or abolition of the almost universal county jail, a proposal which not till later took the form, in a few states, of state farms for misdemeanants. He was the founder of the cottage housing system or "mill" system. His work was done in the pioneer days of the effort to reach a scientific approach to the problems of delinquent conduct, but many of his ideas have stood the test of later social and psychological analysis.
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Rosecroft: A Story Of Common Places And Common People
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Achsah: A New England Life-Study (Classic Reprint)
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Hal: The Story Of A Clodhopper...
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Rosecroft: A Story Of Common Places And Common People
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In 1877 Round married Ellen Miner Thomas, granddaughter of Hon. Charles Miner of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. They had no children.
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