Burton Howard Camp

Burton Howard Camp (September 30, 1880 – March 1, 1980)[1] was an American academic and a professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University.

Early life and education

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Howard Alexander Camp and Alice Amelia (Parsons) Camp.

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1901, where he was a member of the Eclectic Society and Phi Beta Kappa. He studied under Professor of English literature, Caleb Thomas Winchester, and gave an address at the Commencement. 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.[2] He was involved with Mathematics at Wesleyan until 1948.

He was a founder and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Vice President of the American Statistical Association, and a member of the American Mathematical Society.[3] Camp was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1936.[4]


He also served as Secretary of the Wesleyan University Alumni Association.

He wrote The Mathematical Part of Elementary Statistics (1931).

Family life

He married Rachel Caroline Rice (1889–1978) on June 30, 1915. She was a daughter of the Rev. Charles Francis Rice and Miriam Owen Jacobs. She attended Boston University, and was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, for which she wrote a speech entitled "Knowledge is now no more a fountain sealed."

They had four children, Miriam Rice Camp (1916–1994), Paul Rice Camp (1919–2012), Charles Rice Camp (1924), and Margaret Camp (b. 1926).

References
  1. William B.B. Moody, A History of The Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta, 1837–1970, Wesleyan University Press, Sep 1, 2011, p. 153
  2. Alumni Record of Wesleyan University (Fifth ed.). Wesleyan University. 1921.
  3. "Mathematics". Science at Wesleyan: 1831-1942.
  4. "View/Search Fellows of the ASA". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
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