The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Johnson, Emory Richard

JOHNSON, Emory Richard, American economist: b. Waupun, Wis., 22 March 1864. He studied at University of Wisconsin (1888) and University of Pennsylvania (1893), taking the degree of Sc.D. (1913). He was instructor of economics at Haverford College (1893-96), professor of transportation and commerce at University of Pennsylvania (1896). He served as expert on transportation (1899) on the United States Industrial Commission, and was a member on valuation of railway property for the United States Census Bureau (1904-05), and as expert on traffic on the National Waterways Commission (1909). In 1911 he furnished a report on Panama Canal traffic, etc., for President Taft, and arbitrated the dispute (1907) between the Southern Pacific Company and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. He is an ex-director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, Philadelphia, and director of the Philadelphia

Maritime Exchange. He has written &lsquo;Inland Waterways; their Relation to Transportation&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;American Railway Transportation&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;Elements of Transportation&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;Railroad Traffic and Rates&rsquo; (1911); &lsquo;Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls&rsquo; (1912); &lsquo;Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal&rsquo; (1913); &lsquo;The Panama Canal and Commerce&rsquo; (1916); &lsquo;Principles of Railroad Transportation&rsquo; (1916), and many papers on the economics of railroads, etc. He was editor of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science from 1901-14.