| LC control no. | n 50002480 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wells, David A. (David Ames), 1828-1898 |
| Variant(s) | Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1828-06-17 |
| Death date | 1898-11-05 |
| Place of birth | Springfield (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Norwich (Conn.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Special Commissioner of the Revenue New York (State). State Tax Commission Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company |
| Profession or occupation | Economists--United States |
| Found in | Wells, David A. The science of common things, 1857: title page (David A. Wells., A.M) United States. Special Commissioner of the Revenue, 1866-1870. Report of the special commisioner of the revenue upon the industry, trade, commerce, etc., of the United States, for the year 1869, 1869: title page (David A. Wells, United States Special Commissioner of Revenue) Cobden Club (London, England). Cobden club essays, second series, 1871-2, 1872: title page (the Hon. David A. Wells, LL.D., of the United States) page 461 (David A. Wells, LL.D., late Special Commissioner of Revenue of the United States) Wells, David Ames. Recent economic changes, 1889: title page (David A. Wells, LL.D., D.C.L.; membre correspondant de L'Institut de France; correspondente della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Italia; honorary fellow Royal Statistical Society, G.B.; late United States Special Commissioner of Revenue, and President, American Social Science Association, etc.) Who was who in America, 1607-1896: (Wells, David Ames; economist; born, Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1828; grad. Williams College, 1847, Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, 1851; published (with George Bliss) The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Cambridge, Mass., 1850-1866; chairman National Revenue Commission, 1865; special commissioner revenue (post created for him), 1866-1870; leading advocate of free trade policies, from 1868; chairman, N.Y. State Tax Commission, 1870; receiver, Ala. & Chattanooga R.R.; member board of arbitration Asso. Rys.; died Norwich, Conn., Nov. 5, 1898) |
| Associated language | eng |
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