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on his mother’s of English descent. His father’s ancestors have been 
lumbermen for four generations. He has two sisters: Lola (Marston) 
Blunt, a graduate of Mills College, Calif., and Mary (Marston) Stewart, 
a graduate of Mrs. Smallwood’s School; and two brothers: Coburn S. 
Marston, a graduate of Annapolis, and Clair R. Marston, a graduate 
of the Tome School for Boys, Fort Deposit, Md. 
He was prepared at Bloomfield Academy and the Skowhegan High 
School and received the degree of B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1809. 
He was in the lumber business for five years before entering the Yale 
Forest School. 
He was married November 29, 1904, in New Haven, Conn., to Miss 
Julie Parmelee of New Haven, Conn., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
S. Parmelee. They have no children. 
Marston has been treasurer and manager of the Coburn Heirs, 
Inc., since December 26, 1910. He taught at the Yale Forest 
School until April, 1906. He then became forester to the United 
States Military Academy. He was later made a member of the 
academic staff of the United States Military Academy and from 
1905 to 1910 was a consulting forester. He was a member of 
the Tariff Board from Ig10 to 1912. 
He writes: “Have worked professionally in New York, New 
Hampshire, Vermont, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, 
Oregon, Washington, California, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
Maine, Canada, Mexico, Korea and China in my private practice. 
Have had charge of all the work on the forest reservation of 
the United States Military Academy since 1902, in addition to 
some teaching, lecturing, landscape work and water supply work 
for the Academy. Made a trip to Hawaii, China, Japan and 
Korea for professional work in 1908. Had charge of the inves- 
tigation of the pulp industry, and the survey of available pulp 
material for the Tariff Board. Made a topographical map and 
working plan for 225,000 acres belonging to the estate of A. 
and P. Coburn in Maine, and thereupon organized Coburn 
Heirs, Inc., of which I am now manager. Have lectured on 
forestry subjects before Bowdoin College, University of Maine 
and various other organizations.” 
In politics Marston is a Republican. He was a delegate to 
the Republican State Convention in 1908, 1910 and 1912, and 
Republican candidate for representative to the Legislature in 
1912. He is a Mason, a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, 
