O. P. Austin (1847 - 1933)

Oscar Phelps Austin (27 July 1847 – 6 January 1933) was an American statistician. The earlier years of his life were spent in journalism, and he served as reporter, editor, and correspondent. He was Chief of the Bureau of Statistics at the US Department of Commerce and Labor, and Associate Editor of National Geographic Magazine in the late 1880s and into the 1900s.