ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between statistics and geography, as perceived by American Geographical and Statistical Society (AGS) men. Daly's AGS presidency that the official orientation of the society moved away from its statistical focus. His quick ascension from member of the AGS in 1855, to councilor three years later, and to President until his death, says much about his personal appeal to AGS men. When the AGS and Charles Daly came onto the scene, the country was just beginning to recover from the devastations of the Civil War and the militaristic mindset it engendered. It argues that the content of the knowledge they produced was shaped at least in part by the social contours of masculinity and manhood inherent within their milieu. Many scholars of masculinity point to the importance of the Civil War in shaping American men's notions of manliness in the second half of the nineteenth century.
