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'''William Graham Sumner''' (1840-1910) was a leading American social scientist of the late 19th century.  based at Yale College, he influenced generations of students and a very wide readership. He is best known for promoting his version of [[libertarian]] political philosophy.  Many of his ideas have been thoroughly incorporated into American conservative thought.  His academic work in sociology, economic history and anthropology proved influential in its day.

'''William Graham Sumner''' (1840-1910) was a leading American social scientist of the late 19th century based at Yale College, he influenced generations of students and a very wide readership. He is best known for promoting his version of [[libertarian]] political philosophy.  Many of his ideas have been thoroughly incorporated into American conservative thought.  His academic work in sociology, economic history and anthropology proved influential in its day.

 

==Career==

==Career==

His father was a skilled worker in England who emigrated to the U.S. in 1836; the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut. The father worked in a railroad repair shop, and was entirely self-educated. His interest in social and economic questions influenced the son. After graduation from the excellent Hartford public schools, young Sumner entered Yale College in 1859. He did not serve in the Civil War, and devoted himself to studies. Sumner made friends easily, and they helped fund his further education in Europe after he graduated Yale in 1863. He always wanted to be an Episcopal priest, so he studied theology at Geneva, Göttingen, and Oxford. Returning to America, he was tutor at Yale from 1866 to 1869. In late 1867, he was admitted to the diaconate of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1869 he became assistant to Dr. E. A. Washburn, rector of Calvary Church, New York, where he was ordained priest in July 1869. In addition to his clerical duties he edited, ''The Living Church'', an monthly magazine that supported the "Broad Church" faction of Episcopalians. In 1870 he became rector of the Church of the Redeemer, in Morristown, N. J.; in 1871 he married Jeannie Whittemore Elliott, daughter of a wealthy New York merchant.

His father was a skilled worker in England who emigrated to the U.S. in 1836; the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut. The father worked in a railroad repair shop, and was entirely self-educated. His interest in social and economic questions influenced the son. After graduation from the excellent Hartford public schools, young Sumner entered Yale College in 1859. He did not serve in the Civil War, and devoted himself to studies. Sumner made friends easily, and they helped fund his further education in Europe after he graduated Yale in 1863. He always wanted to be an Episcopal priest, so he studied theology at Geneva, Göttingen, and Oxford. Returning to America, he was tutor at Yale from 1866 to 1869. In late 1867, he was admitted to the diaconate of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1869 he became assistant to Dr. E. A. Washburn, rector of Calvary Church, New York, where he was ordained priest in July 1869. In addition to his clerical duties he edited, ''The Living Church'', an monthly magazine that supported the "Broad Church" faction of Episcopalians. In 1870 he became rector of the Church of the Redeemer, in Morristown, N. J.; in 1871 he married Jeannie Whittemore Elliott, daughter of a wealthy New York merchant.