"Obituary Record of Graduates [of Yale University], Deceased during the Year ending July 1, 1930, including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported" Bulletin of Yale University, New Haven, Nr. 80, 27. Series, No. 6, (Dec., 1, 1930), pp. 307-308. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [307] Thorstein Bunde Veblen, Ph.D. 1884. Born July 30, 1857, in Cato, Wis. Died August 3, 1929, in Menlo Park, Calif. Father, Thomas Anderson Veblen, a cabinet maker and carpenter (trained in Norway) and later a farmer; son of Anders Haldorsen Oiger (assumed name of Veblen, when he became a farmer of the farm Veblen, according to custom in Norway) and Jartrud Thomasdatter (Thorstad) Oiger, of Valdres, Norway. Mother, Kari (Bunde) Veblen; daughter of Thorstein Osteinsen and Berit Olsdatter (Egge) Bunde, of Valdres. Preparation for college received in preparatory department of Carleton College, B A. Carleton 1880; instructor at Monona Academy, Madison, Wis., 1880-81; did graduate work at Johns Hopkins 1881-82; student in Yale Graduate School 1881-82 (second semester) and 1882-84; on account of ill health lived with his parents on a farm in Rice County, Minn., 1884-85 and 1886-88, with his brother in Iowa City, Iowa, 1885-86, and in Stacyville, Iowa, 1888-1890, engaged in literary work during a part of the period; studied in the Graduate School of Cornell 1891-92, holding a University fellowship in economics and finance; connected with University of Chicago 1892-1906, as fellow 1892-93, reader in political economy 1893-94, associate 1894-96, instructor 1896-1900, and associate professor of economics 1900-06, associate professor of economics at Stanford University 1906-1911; lecturer in economics at School of Business and Public Administration, University of Minnesota, 1911-18; lecturer in economics at New School for Social Research, New York City, from 1918 until his retirement in 1927; had since devoted his time to the work of translation and writing of essays; managing editor of Journal of Political Economy 1896-1905; [308] contributing editor of The Dial (on a definite retainer) 1918-19; lecturer on William Brewster Clark Memorial Foundation at Amherst 1918-19; author: Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Theory of Business Enterprises (1904), Instinct of Workmanship (1914), Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution (1915), Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation (1917), Higher Learning in America (1918), Vested Interests (1919), Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Papers (1920), Engineers and the Price System (1921), and Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times (1923); translated The Science of Finance, by Gustav Cohn (1895), Science and the Workingmen, by Ferdinand Laselle (1900), and published a translation of Ocelandic Laxdaela Saga in 1925; had contributed to Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Race Development, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Political Economy, The Public, publications of American Economic Association, Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, and University of Missouri Bulletin, spoke and wrote eight languages; affiliated with Lutheran Church. Married (1) April 10, 1888, in Stacyville (probably), Ellen May Rolfe (B A. Carleton 1881), daughter of Charles Gilman and Ellen Sylvia (Strong) Rolfe. Mr. and Mrs. Veblen were later divorced. Married (2) June 17, 1914, in Chicago, Ann Fessenden, daughter of Alexander Stuart and Harriet Ayer (Towle) Bradley. Mrs. Veblen died October 7, 1920. No children by either marriage. Death due to heart disease. Cremation took place at Cypress Lawn Cemetery near San Francisco and ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. Survived by an adopted daughter, Becky B. Veblen, two brothers, Andrew A. Veblen and John Edward Veblen, both of Los Angeles, Calif., and four sisters, Mrs. Knut K. Viken, of Sacred Heart, Minn., Mrs. Sigurd Olsen, of Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Ole T. Hougen, of Nerstrand, Mmn., and Mrs. Hans J. Hanson, of Veblen, S. Dak. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------