 In 2002, the association reported its total membership to be approximately 1,000.The association's founding was the idea of Beecher S. Clother, the district attorney in Glen Falls (Warren County), New York.At its first meeting in Albany, in September 2, 1909, the association elected William Travers Jerome, of New York County, as president, Clother as vice president, and Rollin B. Sanford, of Albany County, as secretary.