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IN MEMORIAM
LINDLEY MILLER KEASBEY
Lindley Miller Keasbey, retired professor
of government, died on September 17, 1946. He was 79.
Professor Keasbey was born on February
24, 1867, in Newark, New Jersey. His father served under President Abraham
Lincoln as the United States Attorney for New Jersey. Professor Keasbey
received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1888. He earned
master's and PhD degrees from Columbia University in 1889 and 1890,
respectively.
From 1892 to 1894 he taught at the University
of Colorado, where he was also chairman of the Department of Political
Science. From 1894 until 1905 he taught at Bryn Mawr College. In 1905
he joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin as chairman
of the government department. One of his students, Walter Prescott Webb,
later became a foremost historian of the American West. In 1909 Professor
Keasbey was made head of the Department of Institutional History after
being removed from the Department of Government due to criticism that
his political views were too radical.
In 1917 he helped organize the People's
Council of America, an organization that opposed the entry of the United
States into World War I. The board of regents protested Professor Keasbey's
political activities and fired him when he refused to defend his position
before them.
Professor Keasbey published, first in
German and later in English, The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine
(1896). He translated and published Achille Loria's The Economic
Foundations of Society (1899). He later wrote Three Worlds in
One, a personal account of his philosophical views after his conversion
to Catholicism.
The papers of Professor Keasbey were
donated to the University in the mid-1970s. They are housed at the
<signed>
John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
Biographical sketch prepared by Teresa Palomo
Acosta and posted on the Faculty Council web site on January 18,
2001. Additional biographical sources can be found in the Barker
Texas History Center and the New
Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association,
1996.
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