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George E. (George Ellsworth) Howard
A pioneering American historian and sociologist, this early social scientist wrote with unusual range on marriage, family life, constitutional history, and the growth of universities. His work helped shape the study of institutions in the United States.
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Ducks and Geese: Standard Breeds and Management
by George E. (George Ellsworth) Howard
About the author
Born in 1849 and dying in 1928, George Elliott Howard was an American educator, historian, sociologist, and author whose career moved across several major universities. Sources from Wikipedia, the American Sociological Association, and Nebraska Authors all describe him as an important early scholar of institutions and social life, with teaching posts at the University of Nebraska and Stanford.
Howard is especially remembered for major studies of marriage and the family, including A History of Matrimonial Institutions, as well as books and lectures on constitutional and political history. The American Sociological Association notes that he served as its seventh president in 1917, and Nebraska Authors credits him as the first history instructor at the University of Nebraska and a founder of the Nebraska State Historical Society.
What makes him interesting as an author is the breadth of his curiosity: he wrote not only as a historian of laws and governments, but also as a thinker about social institutions and public life. That mix gives his work the feel of a writer trying to explain how private life, civic life, and history all connect.