As John R. Commons rose out of the 1890s to success in the twentieth century as an institutional economist, his thought evolved through several stages. Much is known about the last stages that include his ideas in his Legal Foundations of Capitalism and Institutional Economics. His beginnings, however, lie in darkness, partially illuminated by his autobiography, Myself [1934], and the research of Dorfman [1949; 1965a; 1965b], Harter [1962], and Mayhew [1987]. These works reveal inter alia that he then had strong religious convictions. Questions arise. When was the initial ...

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