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of the Society of American Foresters, of the Baltimore Club and 
the Bachelors Cotillon Club, Baltimore, and the Green Spring 
Valley Hunt Club, Garrison, Md. 
He has published: Notes on a northwestern fir, the noble fir, abies 
nobilis, Forestry and Irrigation, Sept., 1902, 362; Notes in logging southern 
yellow pine, Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agric., 1905, 483; Work of the Forest 
Service in the South (Address before the Southern Conservation 
Congress in Atlanta), Ayn. Lumberman, Oct. 15, 1910, 54; Forest fire 
protection in the United States (Address before the Canadian Forestry 
Association in Quebec, Jan., 1911), Canadian Forestry Ass'n Ann, Rep., 
1911, 51; Uniform forest legislation (Address before the Southern Com- 
mercial Congress, Forest Section, in Atlanta, March, 1911), Am. Lumber- 
man, March 18, 1911, 40; Codperation with states in fire patrol, Am. 
For., July, 1911, 383; Codperative fire protection under the Weeks Law 
and General principles of forestry (Two addresses before the North 
Carolina Forestry Association in Raleigh, Feb. 21, 1912), Economic Paper 
25, 27 and 44; N. C. Geol. and Econ. Sur., Forest fire protection 
under the Weeks Law in codperation with states, Circ. 205, U. S. Dept. 
Agric., For. Ser., March, 1912; Rural mail patrol, Am. For., Aug., 1912, 
533; also two songs: Rah, for Black and Blue, “Songs of all Colleges,” 
N. Y., Hinds & Noble, 1900; and We’re here to win again, “Johns Hop- 
kins Songs,” Baltimore, Willis & Company, 1909; and Black and Blue, 
a banjo solo, Baltimore, Eisenbrandt & Sons, 1897. 
Samuel N. Spring 
Business address, New York State College of Agriculture, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Samuel Newton Spring was born February 5, 1875, in Sioux City, lowa, 
the son of Winthrop Norton Spring, a business man, and Ellen Elmira 
(Newton) Spring. He is of New England ancestry and a descendant 
of Samuel Hopkins, D.D., who graduated at Yale in 1749, Samuel Spring, 
D.D., Yale 1811, and Gardiner Spring, D.D., LL.D., Yale 1805, the latter 
being valedictorian of his class. 
He was prepared at the local schools in Le Mars, Iowa, and at Hull 
Academy, Hull, Iowa. In 1808 he graduated from Yale, where he received 
Junior oration and Senior dissertation appointments, was a member of 
the Freshman Glee Club, the Apollo Glee Club and the Banjo and 
Mandolin clubs. ’ 
He was married November 29, 1900, in New Haven, Conn., to Miss 
Adah Elmindorf Bowman of New Haven, daughter of Peter E. Bowman 
and Mary C. Bowman. They have two sons: Ernest Walker Spring, 
born June 1, 1903, in New Haven, Conn., and John Bowman Spring, 
born September 7, 1907, in Washington, D. C. 



