JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE, an American economist and writer, born in St. Clair, Mich., in 1856. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878. He took nost-graduate courses in foreign universities. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 but did not practice law. For several years he taught Greek and Latin and German in Mount Morris College and from 1886 to 1889 was professor of political science and English literature at Knox College. He was professor of political science and social science at In diana University from 1889 to 1901, and from that year to 1912 he was professor of political economy at Cornell Univer sity. From 1912 to 1917 he was pro fessor of government and director of the division of public affairs in New York University. He became in 1917 research professor of government and public ad ministration at that university. From 1899 to 1901 he acted as expert agent of the United States Industrial Commission on Investigation of Trusts and Industrial Combinations in the United States and Europe. He was also special commis
sioner of the War Department to in vestigate questions of currency and in ternal taxation, labor, and police in Oriental countries. He acted as special agent on currency reform in Mexico in 1903. In 1903 and 1904 he acted on the commission to reform currency in China. From 1907 to 1910 he was a member of the United States Immigration Commis sion. .11e was also a member of the High Commission in Nicarag-ua. In 1906 and 1907 he. was president of the American Economic Association. He wrote many works on economic subjects, including "The Trust Problem," (1900); "Report on Certain Economic Questions in the English and Dutch Colonies in the Orient" (1902). He also edited many reports of the United States Industrial Commission. He compiled and edited many books on politics, government, and economic subjects. He contributed many articles to periodicals in these branches.