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Harold Morse Dunphy

Best known for a lively early-20th-century guide to earning a living, this practical-minded writer gathered an enormous range of money-making ideas into one ambitious volume. His work has the feel of a handbook for strivers: curious, energetic, and full of everyday possibilities.

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One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

by Harold Morse Dunphy

About the author

Harold Morse Dunphy is credited as the editor of One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopaedia of Plans to Make Money, a wide-ranging guide that was later preserved by Project Gutenberg and listed in library catalogs under his name. The book presents a huge assortment of occupations, business schemes, and practical ideas for self-support, reflecting the strong popular interest in self-help and opportunity in the early 1900s.

The available sources identify him as Harold M. Dunphy and describe him as an attorney at law and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Beyond that, biographical details are limited in the sources I could confirm, so his surviving reputation today rests mainly on this industrious, unusually comprehensive volume.

What makes Dunphy memorable is the spirit of the work itself. Rather than focusing on a single trade or profession, he assembled a broad catalogue of ways people might build a livelihood, giving modern readers a vivid glimpse of ambition, hustle, and everyday economic life in his era.