Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1849, Nov. 15 | Born, Sussex County, N.J. |
| 1864-1865 | Printer’s apprentice, Hackettstown (N.J.) Gazette |
| 1866 | Worked on the Brooklyn Union |
| 1867 | Entered New York, N.Y., law office of Thomas, Glassey & Blake |
| 1870 | Admitted to the bar |
| 1870-1871 | Clerk to David T. Corbin, U.S. attorney, Charleston, S.C. |
| 1871 | Took stenographic records at Ku Klux Klan trials in South Carolina |
| 1871 | Married Anna Johnson (died 1891) |
| 1874-1875 | Assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York |
| 1875 | Formed law partnership of Lockwood & Post |
| 1880-1882 | Editorial writer, New York Truth |
| 1886 | Editor, New York Leader |
| 1886-1892 | Served successively as editorial writer, news editor, and editor of the New York Standard (weekly paper of the single-tax movement) |
| 1892-1895 | Lectured widely on the single tax |
| 1893 | Married Alice Thacher (died 1947) |
| 1896-1898 | Editorial writer, Cleveland Recorder |
| 1898-1913 | With his wife established and edited Chicago Public |
| 1903 | Published Ethics of Democracy. New York: Moody Publishing Co. |
| 1904 | Published The Prophet of San Francisco. Chicago: L. S. Dickey |
| 1906 | Published Ethical Principles of Marriage and Divorce. Chicago: Public Publishing Co. |
| 1906-1909 | Appointed to Chicago, Ill., school board |
| 1913-1920 | Served as assistant secretary of labor |
| 1920 | Attempt to have him impeached as assistant secretary of labor failed |
| 1923 | Published The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty. Chicago: C. H. Kerr |
| 1926 | Published What Is the Single Tax? New York: Vanguard Press |
| 1927 | Published The Basic Facts of Economics. Washington, D.C.: [Columbian Print. Co.] |
| 1928, Jan. 10 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
| 1930 | Posthumous publication of The Prophet of San Francisco. New York: Vanguard Press |