JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE American economist, was born in St. Clair, Mich., on Sept. 2, 1856. He graduated at the University of Michigan in 1878; was admitted to the Michigan bar; taught languages in Mt. Morris college (Ill.) ; studied in Germany at the University of Halle; taught political science and English literature at Knox college, Galesburg, Ill., (1886-89) ; was professor of political economy and social science at Indiana State university (1889-91) ; was professor of political economy and politics at Cornell university (1891-1912) ; was professor of government and director of the division of public affairs at New York university (1912-17) and thereafter director of the division of oriental commerce and politics. In 1899-1901 he served as an expert agent of the U.S. industrial commission on investigation of trusts and industrial combinations in the United States and Europe. In 1901-02 he was special commis
sioner of the U.S. war department on colonial administration, and wrote a Report on Certain Economic Questions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the Orient, published (1902) by the bureau of insular affairs; and he later served the United States and other Governments as adviser on currency. In 1907-10 he was a member of the U.S. immigration commission; he has also held many administrative positions. Among his principal works are The Trust Problem (19oo; enlarged ed. with W. E. Clark, 1917) ; Citizenship and the Schools (1906) ; Principles of Politics (1909); The Immigration Problem (with W. J. Lauck, 1913; 6th ed. re vised by R. D. Smith, 1925) ; Business and the Government (1917). He died in New York city on Aug. 24,1929.