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the Society of American Foresters, the American Association 
of Science, the Milburn Club, the Graduates Club of New 
Haven, University Club of Boston, West Point Army Mess, the 
Grange and Patrons of Husbandry. 
George H. Myers 
Business address, 1500, 38 West Thirty-second Street, New York City 
Residence (Summer), Union, via R. D., Stafford Springs, Conn. 
Residence (Winter), 2339 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
George Hewitt Myers was born September 10, 1875, in Cleveland, Ohio, 
the son of John J. Myers, first president of the Vermont Marble Com- 
pany (died in 1883, from injuries received in a runaway at Washington, 
D. C.), and Mary Butterfield Ware (Hewitt) Myers. He has one sister, 
Helen (Myers) Buchanan, wife of James A. Buchanan, and one brother, 
John Ripley Myers, B.A. Hamilton ’87. On his father’s side he is of 
German, and on his mother’s of Colonial descent. 
He was prepared at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and in 1808 was 
graduated from Yale College, where he received a second colloquy Senior 
appointment. 
He was married April 21, 1908, in Fall River, Mass., to Miss Louise 
Stoddard Chase of Fall River, daughter of Simeon Borden Chase, cotton 
manufacturer and banker, and Louise Whitman (Hills) Chase. They 
have one child, Persis Chase Myers, born February 16, 1909, at South 
Lancaster, Mass. 
Myers has given more and more attention to business since 
leaving the Yale Forest School but continues to be slightly in 
touch with forestry through buying land in Connecticut and 
an interest in lumbering in the State of Washington. 
In 1898-99 he studied botany and English at the Harvard 
Graduate School, and then traveled for a year, having his 
headquarters at Washington, D. C. During the three years 
following graduation from the Forest School, he was engaged 
in the United States Forest Service, also traveling extensively 
for the study of forests. 
He was a member of the Graduate Advisory Board of the 
Yale Forest School, where he has given lectures on foreign 
forestry. He has traveled widely, as follows: 1896, western 
Europe; 1900, Porto Rico and Cuba; 1902, western United 
States; 1903, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland; 1905, 


