Frank Whitson Fetter *26

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FRANK WHITSON FETTER aged 92, distinguished economist, monetary authority, and professor, died July 7, 1991, in Hanover, N.H. Born in San Francisco, Prof. Fetter earned his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1920. In 1922 he received a master's degree from Princeton, followed in 1924 by a second master's degree from Harvard, and then he received his doctoral degree in economics from Princeton in 1926. His teaching career spanned more than 40 years, interspersed with service to our government in Washington and to several other countries in Latin America. He taught economics as a professor or visiting lecturer at Princeton, Haverford College, Johns Hopkins, the Univ. of Wisconsin, Northwestern Univ., and Dartmouth College. In 1937 he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. His most distinguished work, published in 1965, was entitled "Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy, 17971875."

His first wife died in 1977. He married a second time in 1978, and his second wife also predeceased him, in 1985, Deep sympathy is extended to his daughter, two sons, and extended family of grandchildren, stepsons, and cousins.

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