HON. JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD 



Who will become Secretary ot the Interior on March 4, 1907 



It is a matter of reassurance to the readers of Forestry and Irrigation that when Mr. 

 Hitchcock retires from the position of Secretary of Interior he is to be succeed- 

 ed by a man of such high integrity and forceful personality as Mr. Garfield, at present 

 Commissioner of Corporations. The Department of the Interior, controlling as it does the 

 Reclamation Service and Public Land administration, is of special interest to the readers 

 of this magazine. Through Mr. Garfield they may justly expect a vigorous handling of 

 these important affairs, for he has, throughout his public career shown himself particularly 

 able in administrative work. 



Mr. Garfield was born at Hiram, Ohio, Oct. 1, 1865, the son of James Abram Garfield 

 (20th President of the United States). His preparatory education was received at 

 St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and graduated from Williams College in 1885. Later he 

 studied law at the Columbia Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1888, and estab- 

 lished a practice at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Garfield has been a member of the United 

 States Civil Service Commission; and in February, 1903, was appointed Commissioner of 

 Corporations, in the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor. He is a trustee of 

 Williams College, and President of the Board of Trustees of Lake Erie College, Painsville, 

 Ohio. He is also a member of the Keep Commission. 



