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Charles Lane Poor

Charles Lane Poor was an American astronomer, professor of celestial mechanics at Columbia University. He published a monograph[?] disputing the evidence for Einstein's theory of relativity in the pre-war years before the theory became firmly established.

At Columbia University, he was a teacher of the astronomer Samuel A. Mitchell[?], who went on to become Director of the Leander J. McCormick Observatory[?] at the University of Virginia [1] (http://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/observatories/26inch/history/mitchell).

Professor Poor's son, Edmund Ward Poor[?], was one of ten co-founders of Grumman Aircraft on Long Island. Edmund Ward Poor's son E. Ward Poor II[?] was for a long time a maintainer of the Boston Computer Society[?]'s public domain software collection and lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Ward Poor's son, the professor's great-grandson, is Edmund Ward Poor III but goes by "Ed Poor".

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