About Sydnor Harbison Walker
Lived 1891 – 1966 (aged 75). Sydnor Harbison Walker was an American economist.
Sydnor Harbison Walker (1891–1966) was an American economist and educator. She is known for her work at the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation and then the Rockefeller Foundation.
Biography Walker was born on September 26, 1891, in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned her A.B. in 1913 from Vassar College, her M.A. in 1917 from the University of Southern California and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1926.
She began her career working as an instructor at Vassar. She then worked as an industrial relations consultant for the Scott Company and then for the Strawbridge & Clothier.
In 1924 Walker started her work at the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation (LSRM) as a research assistant. (LSRM) became part of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929. There Walker was first the assistant director for their Division of the Social Sciences. She was promoted to associate director then acting director in 1937. She worked at the Rockefeller Foundation until 1943.
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Who was Sydnor Harbison Walker?
1891-1966, American economist and educator
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Sydnor Harbison Walker was born on 26 September 1891 in Louisville.
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Sydnor Harbison Walker died on 12 December 1966 in Millbrook.
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Sydnor Harbison Walker was an economist.
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Sydnor Harbison Walker was American.
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