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I was curious to follow up the lead given on this thread about consulting 
William Barber's ed. _Economists and Higher Learning in the Nineteenth 
Century_ (2nd edition, transactions pub., 1993). It would certainly seem 
to be the source to consult on this issue. 
 
As a previous person noted, the essay on Harvard in Barber's volume 
identifies Charles F. Dunbar as the person appointed as the first 
full-time professor of Economics in the U.S. at Harvard in 1871. 
 
However, other essays document plenty of other teaching activity in 
Economics/political economy earlier in the U.S. 
 
The essay on William and Mary and U.Va. indicate that a Bishop James 
Madison (a relative of the U.S. Pres. of same name) had been teaching 
from Smith's Wealth of Nations at William and Mary, possibly from the 
1790's (date hard to establish). 
 
And at Brown U. William Gammell formerly prof. of Rhetoric in 1851-2 
had his position converted into that of History and Political Economy. 
It may be of interest to note that around this time Wayland, as Pres. of 
Brown had introduced a faculty compensation scheme with a base stipend 
supplemented with fees collected from students. Gammell is reported as 
finding this scheme offensive because it meant his salary was lower than 
a number of junior colleagues. 
 
David Mitch 
University of Maryland Baltimore County 
 
 
 
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