Dewsnup, Ernest R.

Years in the Department:

1907-1920

Research Interest:

Transportation, Railway Administration

Biosketch:

Ernest Ritson Dewsnup came to the University of Illinois as Professor of Railway Administration and Head of the Department of Transportation in 1907. He was degreed in Economics in 1895 and served as Lecturer in Railway Transport at Owens College, Manchester, England.

In 1904, Professor Dewsnup came to the United States where he was named Curator of the Museum of Business at Chicago University. During his 12-year tenure at Illinois, with the exception of his last year, the entirety of the coursework in Transportation was staffed solely by Professor Dewsnup. In 1915, when Transportation was separated as its own department with the establishment of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, Professor Dewsnup taught nine undergraduate and 3 graduate courses, covering such topics as Transportation Systems and Policy, Railway Administration and Management, and the Literature of Railway Economics.

In 1919, after serving one year as a distinguished officer for the War Office in London, Professor Dewsnup would re-establish his home in England, assuming the office of Chair of Commerce at the University of Liverpool. He would remain Chair for twenty years until his retirement in 1939.

Professor Dewsnup was born in 1874 and was deceased in July, 1950.

PHD:

Owens College, 1895

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Dewsnup, Ernest R. Railway Organization and Working: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the Railway Classes of the University of Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1906. Print.
Dewsnup, Ernest R. The Housing Problem in England: Its Statistics, Legislation, and Policy. Manchester: At the University Press, 1907. Print.
Dewsnup, Ernest R, and John P. Curran. Freight Classification. Chicago: La Salle extension University, 1914. Internet resource.
Dewsnup, Ernest R. Recent Financial Investigations. Philadelphia, 1916. Internet resource.
Dewsnup, Ernest R. American Railway Organization and Working: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the Railway Classes of the University of Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1906. Print.

Vita:

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