William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner was born in Patterson, New Jersey on October 30th, 1940. He grew up in Hartford, Connecticut with his sturdy, working-class, English immigrant father and his English wife. As a youth he relished in critical thinking. He inherited his father's strict financial views and by young adulthood had saved enough money to enroll in Yale University. There he was educated in the classics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1863. While at Yale, he was also a member of the Skull & Bones, a secret society of prominent outstanding young men which in the past years has also been home to our beloved George W. Bush.
After graduation, Sumner traveled to Europe to delve further into theological studies at Oxford University. There he learned methods of deduction and investigation as well as biblical criticism until 1866 when he returned home and back to Yale to study mathematics, Greek and philosophy. Once again he left Yale in 1869 to accept a position in Morristown, New Jersey at......
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