1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



213 



GOVERNOR JOHN McLANE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



ONE OF the most forceful of the addresses given before the Committee on Agriculture, 

 of the House of Representatives, at the time of the recent hearing on the bill for the 

 creation of national forest reserves in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and 

 the Southern Appalachian Mountains, was that delivered by Governor John McLane, of 

 New Hampshire. So vitally does the government of the State of New Hampshire, in 

 which the proposed White Mountain Reservation is located, feel the need of this reserva- 

 tion, that it was unanimously voted that the Governor and his council should attend the 

 hearing before the House Committee and exert all possible influence toward securing the 

 reservation. 



John McLane was born at Lennoxtoun, Scotland, February 27, 1852. He w;is educated 

 in the public schools at Manchester, N. H., and learned the trade of cabinet maker, and 

 since 1876 has been engaged as a manufacturer of postoffice furniture and equipments. He 

 is now President of the McLane Manufacturing Company ; also President of the Lonhegan 

 National Hank, and variously connected with other institutions in his State. He was a 

 member of the New Hampshire House f Representatives, 1885 ; State Senator, 1891-3, and 

 President of the Senate at both sessions. He was elected Governor in 1905. 



