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Edward Thomas Devine

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In 1904, outside of COS, Devine helped found a National Child Labor Committee as well as the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. In 1910, he joined an advisory committee of the International Prison Congress. In 1912, he became chairman of a committee of social workers
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from 1926 to 1928. He directed Bellvue-Yorkville Health Demonstration, 1929–1930. He became director of the Housing Association of New York and vice chairman of the New York Committee of One Thousand ("a private reform body to investigate political corruption in New York City"), 1930–1931. He
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While studying for his doctorate, Devine became staff lecturer in economics for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, for which he also became secretary (1894-1896).
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served as executive director of the Nassau County Emergency Work Bureau, 1931–1933, and of the country's Emergency Relief Bureau, 1933–1935.
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In 1889, Devine married Hattie Evelyn Scovill; they had two surviving children.
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who lobbied successfully for passage of an act that created the federal
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to John Devine of Ireland and Laura Hall of New York state. He attended
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Edward Thomas Devine was born on May 6, 1867, on a farm near
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Columbia University
American University
social welfare
Union, Iowa
Cornell College
B.A.
M.A.
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
economics
general secretary
New York City
Charity Organization Society
Columbia University School of Social Work
New York State Tenement House Act
Commission on Industrial Relations
American Red Cross
Federal Coal Commission
social economics
American University
Oak Park, Illinois





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