William Graham Sumner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was the leading American advocate of a free-trade industrial society, which is what he believed the socialists meant by "capitalism." He graduated from Yale University in 1863, where he had been a member of Skull & Bones. Later he became a professor of sociology at Yale. As a sociologist, his major accomplishments were developing the concepts of diffusion, folkways, and ethnocentrism. ..."
Born
30 Oct 1840, in Paterson, New Jersey