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Lester Frank Ward

Bradford County, Pennsylvania
· Father of American Sociology
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Lester Frank Ward, called the "Father of American Sociology," was also a geologist and Civil War veteran. Born in 1841 and dying in 1913, he spent his youth in Myersburg working with his brother, Cyrenus Osborne Ward, a labor historian, in their hub factory. He has been called "the American Aristotle."
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