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Hodge. He is the grandson on his father’s side of William Hodge of 
Buffalo, N. Y., son of William Hodge of Buffalo, N. Y., son of Benjamin 
Hodge of Connecticut. On his mother’s side he is the grandson of Nelson 
K. Hopkins of Buffalo, N. Y. He has two brothers: Harold Hodge 
and Sheldon Hodge. 
He was prepared at the Buffalo High School and at Phillips Andover 
Academy, and received the degree of B.A. at Yale in 1899. He was a 
member of Psi Upsilon. 
He is unmarried. 

After graduation from the Forest School Hodge entered the 
United States Forest Service, remaining until 1908, when he 
became deputy state forester of California. In 1910 he reén- 
tered the Government Service and after some time in the office 
of silviculture, where he made an exhaustive study of methods 
of reconnaissance now in use in District 5, is now inspector of 
fire plans under operation, with headquarters in San Francisco. 
He is Progressive in politics and is a member of the Society 
of American Foresters, the Century Club of Washington, D. C., 
and the University Club of San Francisco. 
Ralph S. Hosmer 
Business address, Box 207, Honolulu, Hawaii 
Residence, 1054 King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 
Ralph S[heldon] Hosmer was born March 4, 1874, in Deerfield, Mass., 
the son of Rev. George Herbert Hosmer and Julia West (Sheldon) 
Hosmer. His father was minister of the Unitarian parishes of Deer- 
field, Bridgewater, Salem and Dorchester, Mass., president of the Uni- 
tarian Temperance Society and a member and officer in various educa- 
tional and charitable organizations. He is a descendant of James 
Hosmer, one of the first settlers of Concord, Mass., and the grandson 
on his father’s side of Rev. G. Washington Hosmer, D.D., and Hannah 
Poor (Kendall) Hosmer. His mother was the third daughter of William 
Sheldon and Catharine (Williams) Sheldon of Deerfield, Mass. 
He studied at the Boston Latin School for two years and with private 
tutors, and from 1891 to 1895 attended the Bussey Institution and Law- 
rence Scientific School of Harvard University. In 1894 he received 
the degree of B.A.S. from Harvard. 
He is unmarried. 
From May, 1896, to November, 1898, Hosmer was assistant 
in the division of soils, United States Department of Agriculture, 
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