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Insurance Company of Oswego, N. Y., and Elizabeth Phelps (Huntington) 
Fisher, served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1863 and since then has 
been a teacher. His mother’s parents were William Henry Thayer, M.D., 
and Ellen (Handerson) Thayer. He has two sisters: Faith H. Fisher 
and Eleanor Fisher, B.A. Smith College ’11. 
He was prepared at the Harvard School, Chicago, Ill, and received 
the degree of B.A. at Harvard in 1808. 
He is unmarried. 
Fisher is assistant professor of forestry at Harvard Univer- 
sity. In the summer of 1808, after graduating from Harvard, 
he acted as field agent of the United States Biological Survey, 
and during the year 1898-99 he was assistant in English at 
Harvard College. From 1899 to 1903 he was employed in the 
United States Forest Service, first as student assistant, then as 
agent and finally as field assistant. Upon graduation from the 
Yale Forest School he became instructor in forestry at Harvard, 
which position he held until 1906, when he was made assistant 
professor. Since 1907 he has also been a member of the firm of 
Fisher, Cory & Bryant, now Fisher, Olmsted & Bryant, 
consulting foresters, of Boston, Mass. 
He is a Unitarian. He is a member of the Society of 
American Foresters and of the Farmers’ Grange. 
He has published: The redwoods, Bull. U. S. Forest Service; 
(With H. S. Graves) The woodlot, Bull. U. S. Forest Service. 
*Wesley J. Gardner 
Died 1906 
Wesley Johnson Gardner was born January 30, 1877, in Plainfield, N. J., 
the son of Insley Boice Gardner (died May 30, 1897) and Anna Elizabeth 
(Bellis) Gardner. He was the grandson on his father’s side of Alvah 
Gardner, who was of English ancestry, and Sarah (Mott) Boice, and 
on his mother’s side of John L. Bellis and Sarah Maria (Dilts) Bellis. 
He had four sisters: Mabel Washington Gardner and Nellie Dunn Gard- 
ner (both deceased), and Mary Craig Gardner and Evelyn Dunn Gardner, 
B.A. Bryn Mawr ’o8. 
He was prepared at the Helena High School, Helena, Mont., and with 
private tutors, and in 1900 received the degree of B.A. cum laude at 
Harvard and was awarded honorable mention in philosophy. 
He was unmarried. 

