Charles Ferris Gettemy (March 12, 1868 – October 5, 1939) was an American journalist and statistician.
In November 1905, Gettemy joined the staff of Curtis Guild Jr.
In 1907, a year after Guild took office as governor of Massachusetts, he appointed Gettemy the director of the state's Bureau of Statistics.
Additionally, Gettemy headed the Massachusetts Homestead Commission from 1911 to 1919, and served as director of military enrollment in Massachusetts during World War I. Gettemy left the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics on July 11, 1919, working for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as an assistant federal reserve agent until retirement in 1937.
[1] Gettemy became a member of the American Statistical Association in 1907 and was granted fellowship in 1914.