Miles Menander Dawson

Miles Menander Dawson (May 13, 1863 – 1942) was an American author of poetry and philosophy, and ethics. He wrote books about the teachings of Zoroaster, Socrates, and Confucius. He was a member of the Confucian Society of China.[1]

Biography

He was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin on May 13, 1863.[2] Dawson worked as an actuary in New York City. He wrote numerous books and articles on life insurance and actuarial science.[3] In 1905 and 1910 he acted as a lobbyist when bills were being prepared to regulate the insurance industry.[4] In 1908 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Rome.[5] In 1914 he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Statistical Association.[6]

He died in 1942.

Publications
  • The Business Of Life Insurance (1905) [3]
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References
  1. The Ethics of Confucius. University Press of the Pacific. 2002. ISBN 1-4102-0356-5.
  2. "Miles Menander Dawson passport application from April 20, 1908". United States Department of State. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. Miles Menander Dawson (1905). "The Business Of Life Insurance". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  4. "Insurance Bills Guided To Death". New York Times. May 25, 1910. Retrieved 2010-07-30. They were accompanied by the charge of Miles Menander Dawson, that in 1905, when Dawson was before the Legislature the passage of a bill affecting life ...
  5. Dawson, Miles M. "Necessary cautions for the guidance of mathematicians in dealing with actuarial problems". Atti del IV Congresso internazionale dei matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). vol. 3. pp. 310–326.
  6. List of ASA Fellows, retrieved 2016-07-16.
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