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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK. 



President of the Conservation Congress, elected Oct. 4. 1912. lie is also 

 a director of the American Forestry Association. 



MR. CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



President, National Conservation Congress 



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[R. CHARLES LATHROP 

 PACK'S interest in affairs has 

 been broad and constructive. He 

 is an active and busy business man, 

 who finds time for public usefulness. 

 As a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, he 

 has held various positions of trust. As 

 president of the Cleveland Chamber of 

 Commerce, he was one of the small and 

 active group of men whose work made 

 effective progress for a greater and 

 better Cleveland. 



For many years, Mr. Pack has been 

 a trustee of Western Reserve University 

 of Cleveland, where in civic work as 

 well as in business, he had as an asso- 



ciate Dr. H. A. Garfield, now president 

 of Williams College. 



He is well known as an authority 

 on economic forestry matters, and was 

 one of the first Americans to study 

 Forestry in Germany. After his return 

 from Germany, he explored in the pine 

 regions of Canada and in the South. 

 It was at about this time that he was 

 paid a fee (large in those days) by the 

 late Jay Gould for expert forestry ad- 

 vice ; and this is the earliest record of 

 such a fee being paid in the United 

 States. 



Mr. Pack has since then devoted 

 himself chiefly to the lumber industry, 



