biography
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Devine, Edward Thomas
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| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1948)
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| biography:
| Social worker and editor, born near Union, Hardin Co, Iowa, USA. After earning a doctorate in economics (1893), he was secretary of the American Society for Extension of University Teaching (1894–6). Named general secretary of the New York Charity Organization Society (1896–1917), he played a major role in the development of social work as a profession. Pragmatic, temperate, and experimental in attitude, he helped establish the precursor to the Columbia University School of Social Work (1898) and was a force in improving the conditions in urban slums. On a national level, he assisted in disaster relief, served on the United States Coal Commission (1922–3), and was director of the New York Housing Association (1930) along with emergency relief agencies. |
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