Edward N. Hurley

Edward Nash Hurley (31 July 1864 – 14 November 1933) was an Irish American businessman and inventor who served as the second chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from July 1, 1916 to January 31, 1917.[1]

Edward N. Hurley in the 1910s

Hurley was born in Galesburg, Illinois on 31 Jul 1864.[2] He finished highschool at 17 and went to work for the railroad, ascending from shopman to engineer, and eventually becoming assistant to the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.[3] In 1897 he started producing pneumatic tools together with a couple of brothers and made $125,00 selling the British patent. In 1907 he became president of the National Bank of Wheaton and then founded the Hurley Machine Company, which produced vacuum cleaners and washing and ironing machines. In 1914 he was named to the Federal Trade Commission and in 1915 he became its chairman. Hurley also served on the Red Cross War Council, the War Trade Board, and as chairman of the U.S. Shipping Board.[4]

He helped professor T. G. Masaryk in a question of Czechoslovak legions and a foundation of a Czechoslovak state in 1918.[5]

In 1918 with Professor Robert DeLoach he joined the Vagabonds, a group consisting of John Burroughs, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone who made a camping trip to the Appalachian mountains.[6]

In 1926 he received the Laetare Medal and in 1933 he donated $200,000 to the University of Notre Dame for a new building for the college, which was named Hurley Hall.[7]

He is buried in the Calvary Cemetery (Evanston, Illinois).[8]

Works
  • The New Merchant Marine
  • 1919 The Awakening of Business
  • Banking and Credits in Argentine, Brazil, Chile, and Peru
  • 1927 The Bridge to France Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company

References
  1. List of Commissioners, Chairwomen, and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission: 1915-2018 (as of November 2018).
  2. Kerry, Temple. O'Hara Heirs: Business Education at Notre Dame 1921-1991. Notre Dame, Indiana 46556: College of Business Administration. p. 9.CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. Kerry, Temple. O'Hara Heirs: Business Education at Notre Dame 1921-1991. Notre Dame, Indiana 46556: College of Business Administration. p. 9.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. Kerry, Temple. O'Hara Heirs: Business Education at Notre Dame 1921-1991. Notre Dame, Indiana 46556: College of Business Administration. p. 10.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (TGM and legions), váz. kniha, 219 pages, vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czechia) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk democratic movement in Prague), 2019, ISBN 978-80-87173-47-3
  6. "The "Vagabonds" with E. N. Hurley and R. J. DeLoach on a Camping Trip, 1918 - The Henry Ford". www.thehenryford.org. The Henry Ford. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  7. "September 2002". www.irishlegends.com. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  8. Where They're Buried

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