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Charles Felton Pidgin (English)
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1923
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Charles Felton Pidgin, who was connected with the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor for over thirty-four years, died at his home in Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts, on June 3, 1923. (English)
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In 1907 Mr. Pidgin severed his connection with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and up to a short time before his death he was engaged principally in literary work. (English)
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Mr. Pidgin was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, November 11, 1844. After graduation from the English High School, Boston, in 1883, he was employed as an accountant in mercantile business until his appointment, in 1873, as chief clerk of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, in which capacity he served under Colonel Carroll D. Weight (1873-1888) and Mr. Horace G. Wadlin (1888-1903). In 1903 Mr. Pidgin was appointed Chief of the Bureau to succeed Mr. Wadlin. He became the fourth Chief of the Bureau which was established in 1869. Although from boyhood he suffered greatly as a result of an accident to his hip, and was partially blind for a number of years, he was an unremitting worker. In addition to performing his administrative duties as an official of the Bureau, he contributed much statistical material for publication in the Bureau's reports and labor bulletins, and in 1888 he published, independently, a book entitled Practical Statistics. He also invented numerous devices and machines for the mechanical tabulation of statistical data, some of which were patented. His spare time out of office was devoted to literary work, and he gained even greater prominence as an author than as a statistician. The most popular of the long list of his writings were his novel, Quincy Adams Saner, and his historical romance, Blennerhossett. … (English)
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