GRADUATES CLASS OF 1902 37 

Alfred K. Chittenden 
Business address, Engineering Experiment Station, Urbana, IIl. 
Residence, Champaign, III. 
Alfred Knight Chittenden was born October 28, 1870, in New Haven, 
Conn., the son of Professor Russell Henry Chittenden, Ph.D., Sc.D., 
LL.D., Yale ’75S., director of the Sheffield Scientific School, and Ger- 
trude Louise (Baldwin) Chittenden. He has two sisters, Edith Russell 
Chittenden, B.A. Smith ’99, and Lilla Millard (Chittenden) Barbour, 
wife of Henry Gray Barbour, B.A. Trinity ’06, M.D. Johns Hopkins 
*I0, who was appointed assistant professor of pharmacology in the Yale 
Medical School in 1912. 
He was prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven 
and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1900. In the 
Scientific School he took the Civil Engineer Course, received general 
scholastic honors, and was a member of the scholarship society, Sigma 
Xi. 
He was married February 11, 1908, in Washington, D. C., to Miss 
Lulu W. Brower of Washington. 
Chittenden is director of the engineering experiment station 
and lecturer on timber and timber resources at the College of 
Engineering of the University of Illinois. After graduation 
from the Forest School he went abroad for seven months to 
study forest conditions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 
France and England. On returning to the United States he 
entered the United States Forest Service and has since worked 
in nearly every state in the Union, serving successively as forest 
assistant, chief of the section of codperation, assistant district 
forester and forest inspector. For a year, in 1907, he was in 
private business in Baltimore, doing consulting forestry work 
under the firm name of Chittenden & Patterson. On September 
20, 1911, he was appointed forester in the United States Indian 
Service with headquarters in Washington, D. C. This position 
he held until receiving his present appointment. 
He writes: “The Indian Service has a well developed Forest 
Service which is handling all timber matters on the Indian 
Reservations. There are thirty-one saw mills on the reserva- 
tions operated for the benefit of the Indians by the Government. 
These mills vary in size from small portable mills to the large 
mill, with a daily capacity of over 200,000 feet, on the Menominee 
Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. 
