Jesse Macy
Historian, Author
1842 – 1919
Who was Jesse Macy?
Jesse Macy was an American political scientist and historian of the late 19th and early 20th century, specializing in the history of American political parties, party systems, and the Civil War. He spent most of his professional career at his alma mater, Grinnell College.
Jesse Macy, the thirteenth of fourteen children, was born to Quaker parents in Indiana, but the family moved to central Iowa in 1856 and started farming outside Lynnville, near the newly founded town of Grinnell. At age 17, he entered Iowa College, now Grinnell College. During the Civil War, he served in the Union army and he did not graduate until after the war, earning an A.B. in 1870.
During the 1870s, Macy started what would become a long-term correspondence with James Bryce, a noted British jurist and politician. In 1884, he completed his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. The next year, he returned to the Midwest to take a professorship at Iowa College. For the next forty-two years, Macy taught history and political science at the college.
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- Born
- Jun 21, 1842
Indiana - Religion
- Quakers
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Grinnell College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lived in
- Lynnville
- Died
- Nov 2, 1919
Grinnell
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on July 23, 2013
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