(Left) Portrait of Frederick Hoffman, 1909 (Right) Cover Page of the Prudential’s Report Concerning Cancer, 1915
(Left) Samuel F. Bigelow and George J. Hagar. The Biographical Cyclopedia of New Jersey, 1909, p. 146-147 (Right) Frederick L. Hoffman. The mortality of cancer throughout the world, 1915.
(Left) German-born American statistician Frederick Hoffman started working for the prestigious Prudential Insurance Company of America in 1891. It should be noted that much of his statistical research was biased due to his overtly racist opinions.
(Right) Cover page of the Prudential’s report concerning cancer published in 1915. The document bears the title: “The mortality of cancer throughout the world,” as well as its author’s name and titles: “Frederick L. Hoffmann, Statistician, The Prudential Insurance Company of America; Chairman of the Committee on Statistics, American Society for the Control of Cancer; Member of the American Association for Cancer Research; Associate Fellow at the American Medical Association; Associate Member of the American Academy of Medicine, etc., etc.”