54 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

In politics he is a Progressive. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Forestry Association, the Society of American Foresters, 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science and 
the National Geographic Society. 
He has published: Studies in the germination of leguminosae, lowa 
State College; Forest planting in eastern Nebraska, Bull. U. S. Forest 
Service; Forest planting in the North Platte and South Platte valleys, 
Bull. U. S. Forest Service; (With Frank B. Kellogg) Forest taxation 
in Washington, Bull, U. S. Forest Service. 
Ellie J. S. Moore 
Route 2, Bozeman, Mont. 
Ellie James Sebastian Moore was born in Bozeman, Mont. 
In 1901 he received the degree of B.S. from Montana State College. 
Moore was in the employ of the United States Forest Service 
in 1903-04 and has since been principally engaged in ranching. 
J. Girvin Peters 
Business address, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, 7 East Mt. Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 
James Girvin Peters was born November 14, 1876, in Baltimore, Md., 
the son of Winfield Peters, a lieutenant in the Confederate Army from 
1861 to 1865, and Mary Elizabeth (Girvin) Peters. He is the grandson 
on his father’s side of George Peters, a colonel in the Confederate Army 
from 1861 to 1865, and Sarah (Cordray) Peters, and on his mother’s side 
of James Girvin and Sarah Ann (Smith) Girvin. His ancestry combines 
German and Scotch-Irish. 
He was prepared at Marston’s University School, Baltimore, and gradu- 
ated from Johns Hopkins University in 1900, receiving the degree of B.A. 
He was a member of Delta Phi and leader of the Glee, Banjo and Man- 
dolin clubs. He spent the year before entering Yale in Oregon in the 
lumber business with Joseph T. Peters & Company at The Dalles, and 
with the Bridal Veil Lumbering Company at Bridal Veil. On a trip up 
Mt. Hood he met Gifford Pinchot, who told him of the Forest School 
at Yale. 
He was married November 12, 1907, in Garrison, Md., to Miss Harriet 
Dugan White, of Garrison, Md., daughter of Horace W. White and Jane 
M. (Ward) White. They have two sons: Horace White Peters, born 



