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美国会计名人堂人物系列 3. 威廉··佩顿（，1875-1961） 威廉··佩顿安德鲁玛丽·诺林·佩顿子，1889年7月19日密歇根卡柳梅特。他的父亲是当时的本地学校监，他的母亲也是一位经验丰富的教师。 1897年，家庭定居在密歇根州南部的一个农场。 The son of Andrew and Mary Nowlin Paton, he was born on July 19, 1889, near Calumet, Michigan. His father was then superintendent of the local school system; his mother was also an experienced teacher. In 1897, the family settled on a farm in southern Michigan. After some delay because of the pressure of farm work, he finally started college study at Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University), and in the fall of 1912 he enrolled at the University of Michigan. He pursued a graduate program after graduating with an AB degree, and received the Ph.D. in economics in 1917. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year at Michigan and later became a member of Beta Alpha Psi and Beta Gamma Sigma. During his career he has received a number of honorary degrees, including the Litt. D. (LeHigh University) and the LLD (Eastern Michigan University). In 1914 he began his long teaching career at the University of Michigan as a part-time instructor. And on the strength of this appointment, so he says, he married Mary K. Sleator, a U of M graduate, then teaching mathematics in the Battle Creek (Mich.) school system. For the school year 1916-17 he served as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, and then returned to his alma mater. He was promoted to full professor in 1921, and retired in 1958 with the title professor emeritus of accounting and of economics. While on leave from the University of Michigan he taught at the University of California (Berkeley) for the school year 1937-38. Since retiring at Michigan he has done part-time teaching at universities in ten states, beginning with the University of Chicago (1959-60) and ending with University of Kentucky (1968-69). That his family is addicted to the teaching profession, it should be noted, is further evidenced by the fact that his son and namesake, William A.,