34 THE FOREST PRESERVES 



THOMAS KASPERSKI 



FOREST PRESERVE COMMISSIONER 



Commissioner Kasperski, on the county board as a repre- 

 sentative of the City of Chicago's great colony of Americans 

 of Polish descent, has been a close student of the forestry 

 problems which will some day be met in a history-making 

 fashion by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. As 

 a member of the Forestry committee he has been able to sur- 

 vey the situation with the view to formulation of the "big- 

 ger forestry plan" that will ultimately be launched. He is also 

 a member of the committees on Real Estate and Requisition 

 and Supplies. 



WILLIAM H. MACLEAN 



FOREST PRESERVE COMMISSIONER 



In Commissioner Maclean the District has a director with 

 legal training and in the perilous pioneer days of the organiza- 

 tion he was a mainstay. His experience gained in the Illinois 

 legislature as representative and senator in which he served on 

 the Judiciary Committees, has been recognized in his appoint- 

 ment to the chairmanship of the Committee on Judiciary which 

 led the district through unexplored realms as far as law and 

 precedents were concerned. 



GEORGE A. MILLER 



FOREST PRESERVE COMMISSIONER 



Another legally trained mind was put into the director- 

 ate of the district in the person of Commissioner Miller. As 

 such his genius and energy have been utilized to the utmost 

 on the Real Estate and Plan Committees, the real trail-blazers 

 in the formation of the preserve districts. He was a member 

 of the first park board for the Park District of Oak Park, 

 and had served two terms in the legislature and at the time 

 when the Forest Preserve Law was passed. He is a member 

 of t the district committee on Depositaries. 



DANIEL MORIARTY 



FOREST PRESERVE COMMISSIONER 



Commissioner Moriarty came onto the District Board 

 with a long record as member of the County Board in addi- 

 tion to a military record gained as Colonel of the "Fighting 

 Seventh", the National Guard organization that was the pride 

 of the county. He has been an important factor in the up- 

 building of the forest preserve chain, serving upon the Real 

 Estate committee and the Judiciary committee. He was a 

 Democratic candidate for president of the county board in 

 1914. 



