BIOGRAPHIES 
CLASS OF i902 
GRADUATES HOLDING DEGREE oF M.F. 
Alfred Akerman 
Athens, Ga.t 
Alfred Akerman was born July 3, 1876, in Cartersville, Ga. the son 
of Amos Tappan Akerman, district attorney and attorney general of the 
United States, and Martha Rebecca (Galloway) Akerman. He is the 
grandson on his father’s side of Benjamin Akerman and Olive (Melvin) 
Akerman, and on his mother’s side of Samuel Galloway and Elizabeth 
(Scudder) Galloway. He has six brothers: Benjamin Akerman, Walter 
Akerman, Alexander Akerman, Joseph Akerman, B.A. Franklin College, 
University of Georgia ’94, and M.D. Johns Hopkins ’o00, Charles Aker- 
man, B.A. Franklin College, University of Georgia, and B.L. University 
of Georgia, and Clement Akerman, B.A. Franklin College, University 
of Georgia. 
He was prepared at Cartersville High School and received the degree 
of B.A. from Franklin College, University of Georgia, in 1898. Before 
entering the Yale Forest School he studied at Berlin and Tuebingen. 
He was employed at different times as a reporter, a bank clerk and clerk 
for a lumber concern. 
He was married October 15, 1902, in New Haven, Conn. to Miss 
Adeline Sophia Brown of New Haven, Conn., daughter of John Hallock 
Brown and Sophia (Price) Brown. They have three daughters: Cath- 
erine Akerman, born August 6, 1903, in New Haven, Conn.; Ruth 
Akerman, born January 24, 1905, in Cambridge, Mass.; Elfreda Aker- 
man, born February 1, 1907, in Athens, Ga. and two sons: Robert 
Akerman, born November 25, 1908, in Athens, Ga., and Nigel Akerman, 
born October 29, 1910, in Athens, Ga. 
Akerman is professor of forestry at the University of Georgia. 
After graduating from the Yale Forest School, he held the 
positions successively of instructor at the Yale Forest School, 
forest assistant in the United States Forest Service, state forester 
of Connecticut, and state forester of Massachusetts. He has 
occupied his present position since July 1, 1906. 
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