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Richard Melancthon Hurd (June 14, 1865 – June 6, 1941) was a pioneer real estate economist and political activist. Hurd was born in New York City and attended St. Paul's School.〔 He graduated from Yale University in 1888,〔Charles Ives, ''Essays Before a Sonata: The Majority and Other Writings'' (NY: Norton, 1962), 257〕〔 where he was a member of Skull and Bones and an editor of ''The Yale Record''.〔"Richard Melancthon Hurd". ''The tenth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity''. Bethlehem, PA: The Comenius Press. March, 1888. p. 297.〕 He headed the mortgage department of the U.S. Mortgage & Trust Company in 1895.〔Hurd, ''City Land Values'', preface p. v〕 He married in 1898 and had five children.〔〔 He was president of the Lawyers' Mortgage Insurance Company in 1903 when he published ''Principles of City Land Values''.〔Richard Melancthon Hurd, ''Principles of City Land Values'' (NY: Real Estate Record Association, 1903), archive.org: (View ), accessed May 24, 2010〕 During the First World War he was active as an officer of the American Defense Society, an organization that promoted America's entry into World War I and civilian initiatives to suppress dissent during the conflict. He was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1917, when he was vice=president and director of the Mortgage Bond Company of New York,〔 he was appointed a New York State Prison Commissioner.〔James Malcolm, ed., ''The New York Red Book'' (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1917), 103 (View ), accessed May 26, 2010〕 He was later President of Lawyers Mortgage Trust, a securitizer of urban commercial property mortgages. The company suffered financial losses and closed during the depression. His son Clement Hurd was an illustrator, known for the children's book ''Goodnight Moon''. He died at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He had been ill for more than a month.〔''New York Times'': ("Richard M. Hurd, 75, Finance Firm Head," June 7, 1941 ), accessed May 26, 2010〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Melancthon Hurd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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