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Glen Elder, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 439
Housing Units (2000): 265
Land area (2000): 0.388119 sq. miles (1.005224 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.388119 sq. miles (1.005224 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26500
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.499714 N, 98.307509 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67446
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Glen Elder

Glen Elder may refer:

  • Glen Elder, Kansas, a small city
  • Glen Elder Dam, impounding Waconda Lake, near Glen Elder, Kansas
  • Glen Elder (sociologist)
Glen Elder (sociologist)

Glen Holl Elder, Jr., (28 February 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Howard W. Odum Research Professor of Sociology (emeritus), a research professor of Psychology and a current professor at the Carolina Population Center all at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in social psychology, sociology, demographics and life course research. Elder's major work was the "Children of the Great Depression" in 1974. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences admitted Glen H. Elder in 1988. In 1993, he was honoured with the Cooley-Mead Award by the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association. Elder was given honorary doctorates by the University of Bremen in 1999, by the Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and by the Ohio State University in 2005.