Baltzell, Edward Digby (E. Digby Baltzell)

1915 - Edward Digby Baltzell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Attended St. Paul's School, an Episcopalian boarding school in New Hampshire.

Earned his doctorate degree from Columbia University.

1947 - Appointed to the faculty of Sociology at Penn.

Baltzell was Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology.

1958 - Authored books Philadelphia Gentlemen, The Making of a National Upper Class.

1962 - He wrote American Business Aristocracy.

1964 - Wrote The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.

1979 - Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership.

1991 - The Protestant Establishment Revisited.

1994 - He wrote Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification.

1995 - Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar.

1996 - He died on 17th of August at Brigham and Women's Hospital.