Burton Howard Camp

Burton Howard Camp (September 20, 1880 – date of death unknown) was an American academic and a professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University.

Early life and education

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1901, where he was a member of the Eclectic Society and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1903, and M.A. in 1907, and Ph.D. from Yale in 1911.

Career

He taught at Oak Grove Seminary in Vassalboro, Maine from 1902-1903, was an instructor in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1903-1904, at Wesleyan from 1904-1905, at Harvard from 1906–1907, and again at Wesleyan from 1907-1909. He was named an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan in 1909, and a Professor in 1914. He was a chair of the department. He was acting director of the Van Vleck Observatory from 1918-1920.^[1] He was involved with Mathematics at Wesleyan until 1948.

He was a founder and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Vice President of the American Statistical Association.^[2]

He also served as Secretary of the Alumni Association. He wrote the Mathematical part of Elementary Statistics (1931).

Family life

He married Rachel Caroline Rice in 1915. She was a daughter of the Rev. Charles Francis Rice, also a graduate of Wesleyan. They had two children, Miriam Rice Camp (b. 1916) and Paul Rice Camp (b. 1919).

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