MR. CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



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which is his first and always leading 

 business. He now holds large tracts 

 of standing pine timber, and is con- 

 sidered one of the leading authorities 

 on timber and general forestry in the 

 United States. He has also made a 

 distinct success in the banking business, 

 the Cleveland Trust Company having 

 been organized in his office and he hav- 

 ing been always one of its directors. 

 He is also a director of the Seaboard 

 National Bank of New York City. 



His interest in sound money led him 

 years ago to take a prominent part in 

 the sound money movement, and he was 

 the youngest member of the Indian- 

 apolis National Monetary Commission. 



When the first Conference of the 

 Governors of all the States took place 

 at the White House, during Mr. Roose- 

 velt's administration, Mr. Pack was in- 

 vited by President Roosevelt as one of 

 the experts on the subject of Conser- 

 vation. Later, the President made him 

 one of the National Conservation Com- 

 missioners. With Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 his close friend, and Dr. Eliot, of 

 Harvard College, and a few others, he 

 organized the National Conservation 

 Association. 



Mr. Pack is a life member and a 

 director of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, and he has been very active 

 in the movement that has during the 

 past two years widened the field of 

 work of the Association and increased 

 its usefulness. He has delivered ad- 

 dresses on Forest Conservation and 

 Taxation before the American Civic 

 Association and other bodies. His work 

 for Conservation is widely and well 

 known, and he has been closely allied 

 with the Conservation movement from 

 the first. His interest is constructive 

 and economic rather than political, and 



he has refused more than one attractive 

 political office. 



But he is not only interested in the 

 conservation of material resources, but 

 also in those things that make for more 

 equal opportunity, and for the conser- 

 vation of human life. His unic|ue gift 

 to one of the New England colleges 

 for the purpose of providing an annual 

 sum for the improvement of the cjuality 

 of the milk, butter and bread consumed 

 by students is an example of the prac- 

 tical turn of his mind in that direction. 



Mr. Pack was for seven years an 

 active member of the Cleveland City 

 Troop, later called Troop A, of Ohio, 

 and retains as a veteran member his 

 connection with that crack organization, 

 which holds the record for efficiency 

 in the Cavalry of the National Guard. 



As a young boy, he lived in the pine 

 woods of Michigan, where he was born 

 IVIay 7, 1857, and later grew to man- 

 hood in Cleveland, Ohio. The Packs 

 emigrated from England, and were in 

 Colonial days a New Jersey family ; and 

 Mr. Pack, some years since, returned to 

 the State, making his home at Lake- 

 wood. He is a member of New Jersey 

 Forest Park Commission. 



At the recent meeting of the National 

 Conservation Congress at Indianapolis, 

 Mr. Pack was elected president of the 

 Conservation Congress for the next 

 year — a signal honor richly deserved 

 because of his training, his prominence 

 in the Conservation movement and his 

 long-continued and consistent service^ 

 He has been a prominent figure at 

 former congresses, and is keenly alive 

 to their usefulness, principles and possi- 

 bilities. The Fifth American Conser- 

 vation Congress is to be congratulated 

 upon its choice of a president. He will 

 undoubtedly do much to increase the 

 usefulness of the organization and to 

 broaden the field of its endeavor. 



