66 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

CLASS OF 1904 
GRADUATES HOLDING DEGREE OF M.F. 
John Appleton 
Bangor, Maine 
John Appleton was born in 1879 in Bangor, Maine. 
He was prepared at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., and in 1902 
received the degree of B.A. at Bowdoin College. 
Upon graduation from the Yale Forest School Appleton 
entered the Bureau of Forestry and was assigned to the division 
of forest products (experimental work). In 1906 he was a con- 
sulting forester in private work in Bangor, Maine. He has fur- 
nished no information for this record. 
Robert W. Ayres 
Business address, Sonora, Calif. 
Forest Service, San Francisco, Calif. 
Robert Williams Ayres was born October 6, 1880, in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
the son of Stephen Cooper Ayres, Miami ’61, oculist and aurist, dean 
of the Cincinnati Medical School, member of the medical staff of the 
Ohio Medical College (Cincinnati University), and surgeon and brevet 
captain in the Civil War, and Louise (McLean) Ayres, daughter of S. B. 
W. McLean, owner of Cincinnati Enquirer in 1860. He is of Scotch-Irish 
ancestry on his father’s side. He has had two brothers, Wylie McLean 
Ayres, M.D., Yale ’97, and Rowan Ayres, Yale 98S. (died August 13, 
1912); and two sisters, Louise and Gertrude Ayres. 
He was prepared at Franklin School, Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated 
from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1903. Here he was a 
member of Delta Psi (St. Anthony) and chairman of the Statisticians 
Committee. 
He was married August 8, 1906, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Miss Kate 
Dowson O’Neill of New York City, daughter of Henry O’Neill and 
Annie Dowson (Coyle) O’Neill. They have three daughters: Nancy 
McLean Ayres, born May 6, 1907, in Pasadena, Calif.; Katherine 
Louise Ayres, born December 4, 1900, in Sonora, Calif., and Frances 
Rowan Ayres, born March 9, 1912, in Sonora. : 


