Horatio M. (Horatio Milo) Pollock

Born in Schoharie County, New York, in 1868, Horatio Milo Pollock began teaching while still very young and later built an unusual career in education, statistics, and public service. Sources consistently describe him as an American statistician, and records of his published work show that he also wrote books on civic improvement and mental health.

Pollock is especially associated with statistical work on public welfare and mental disease, and he contributed to professional and reference publications over many years. His bibliography includes Modern Cities and Mental Disease and Social Welfare, which suggests a writer interested not just in numbers, but in how data could be used to understand communities and improve public institutions.

He died in 1950. While he is not widely remembered as a literary figure, his work stands out for its blend of social observation, reform-minded thinking, and early twentieth-century confidence that careful measurement could help solve real human problems.