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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



March^ 



HON. RKDFlElvD PROCTOR, 



UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM VERMONT, AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF 

 THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION FOR VERMONT. 



SENATOR PROCTOR, chairman of 

 the Committee on Agriculture and 

 Forestry, and one of the most effective 

 friends of forest conservation in the 

 United States Senate, was born at Proc- 

 torsville, Vermont, January i, 1831. 

 He graduated from Dartmouth College 

 in 1 85 1, and from Albany Law School 

 in 1859, and was admitted to the bar at 

 Albany and Woodstock, Vermont, the 



same year. During the next two years 

 he practiced law at Boston, Massachu- 

 setts. In June, 1861, he entered the 

 Third Vermont Regiment as lieutenant 

 and quartermaster. In July of the same 

 3^ear he was placed on the staff of Gen. 

 W. F. (Baldy) Smith, and in October 

 was commissioned major of the Fifth 

 Vermont Volunteer Militia. With this 

 regiment he serv'ed one year around 



