Libbey, Jonas Marsh, 1857-1922

Jonas Marsh Libbey was born on April 8, 1857, in Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, a son of William Libbey (1820-1895), a wealthy New York City merchant and Elizabeth Conklin Marsh (1825-1907), and a brother of William A. Libbey (1855-1927), a Princeton University professor.

He was an American businessman, lawyer, editor, and publisher. He graduated from Princeton University in 1877 (B.A.) and did postgraduate work at the University of Berlin (1878) and University of Leipzig (1879), becoming editor and proprietor of the Princeton Review (1877-1885). He then attended Oxford University (1885) and New York Law School (1891-1893). He was active in the field of economics and industrial investigation. The US government commissioned him its agent in 1895 to investigate the industrial conditions in England. He was a member of the American Social Science Association, the New England Society, and the New York Historical Society. He was one of the founders of the Authors' Club of New York in 1882.

He died tragically falling off the 25-story Municipal Building on February 1, 1922, in New York, New York.