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Vol. 30:4 ISSN 0160-8460 December 2002
Elmer James Ferguson
Elmer James Ferguson, professor emeritus of history at Queens College of the City University of New York and former editor of The Papers of Robert Morris, died on September, 11, 2002, at his home. He was 85.
Ferguson was born in Provo, Utah, in 1917. He taught at the University of Maryland from 1947 until 1964, when he joined the Queens College faculty, from which he retired in 1984. He was best known as the author of The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790, published in 1961. The volume, awarded the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association in 1962, is considered the classic treatment on financing the American Revolution.
