Fabian Franklin

Fabian Franklin (1853-1939) was born in Hungary January 18, 1853, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1855, settling in Philadelphia, and moving in 1861 to Washington, D.C. He graduated from Columbian College in 1869, and received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Columbian University in 1904. He first trained to become a civil engineer but later entered Johns Hopkins University and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (1880). He married Christine Ladd, a professor of psychology and...See more

Fabian Franklin (1853-1939) was born in Hungary January 18, 1853, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1855, settling in Philadelphia, and moving in 1861 to Washington, D.C. He graduated from Columbian College in 1869, and received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Columbian University in 1904. He first trained to become a civil engineer but later entered Johns Hopkins University and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (1880). He married Christine Ladd, a professor of psychology and logic at Columbia University, in 1882. He remained at Johns Hopkins teaching mathematics from 1879-95, then left to become editor with the Baltimore News, where he remained until 1908. He left that position to become associate editor of the New York Evening Post, where he remained until 1917. Franklin developed a firm opposition to radical politics, and to socialism, in particular. During the First World War he founded a new periodical, called The Review, which merged in 1922 with another paper called The Independent. He wrote a number of books in addition to Plain Talks On Economics. He died January 9, 1939. See less