More ASA History
In this auspicious year 2000, the urge to look both forward and backward proved irresistible and, like many before me, I succumbed to the temptation of reviewing our history in an attempt to foresee our future.
W. Michael O'Fallon, 2000 ASA President
First ASA Officers
Richard Fletcher, President
Henry Lee and Bradford Sumner, Vice-Presidents
Joseph B. Felt, Recording Secretary
Lemuel Shattuck, Home Secretary
Joseph E. Worcester, Foreign Secretary
William Cogswell, Ebenezer Alden, Oliver W. B. Peabody, John P. Bigelow, Horace Mann, John D. Fisher, Bela B. Edwards, Samuel G. Howe, and Jesse Chickering, Counsellors
Just for Fun
History of Cornhill, Massachusetts, where the ASA was founded
Census records from the 1840 Census
Must Visit
ASA Archives at Iowa State University
Digital Collections Iowa State University Library
Articles Related to Previous Milestone Anniversary Celebrations
75th Anniversary: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1914 Volume 14, #105
100th Anniversary: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1940 Volume 35, #209b
125th Anniversary: The American Statistician, 1965 Volume 19, #2
150th anniversary: The American Statistician, 1990 Volume 44, #2
