
GRADUATES CLASS OF 1904 67 

Ayres is forest supervisor in the California district. He 
writes: “I was appointed forest assistant in the Forest Service 
July 1, 1904. From July 4, 1904, until July 10, 1905, I was 
stationed in St. Louis, Mo., working in the Division of Forest 
Products of the Forest Service. In July, 1905, I was sent to 
California on experimental work in the same division. I was 
transferred to forest reserve work in January, 1906 (still in the 
Forest Service), where I remained until November of 1907. 
During that time I was engaged in the examination of land for 
national forest purposes and reported on about four million 
acres, which were subsequently included in the National Forests. 
In November, 1907, I was transferred as forest assistant to 
the Stanislaus National Forest, with headquarters at Sonora, 
Calif. I was placed in charge of the forest in June, 1908, and 
in January, 1909, was appointed supervisor.” 
In politics he is a Progressive. He is a Presbyterian and a 
member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion (by inherit- 
ance), the Society of American Foresters, and the Concatenated 
Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
Hugh P. Baker 
New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Hugh Potter Baker was born January 20, 1878, in St. Croix Falls, 
Wis., the son of Joseph Stannard Baker and Alice (Potter) Baker. His 
father was major of the 1st Cavalry, District of Columbia, during the 
Civil War and since 1870 has been in the lumber and land business 
in northern Wisconsin. He is of English ancestry on his father’s side, 
the first of the family coming to Boston in 1638. His mother’s family 
came to New Haven in 1630 and lived for several generations in East 
Haven. His mother is a great, great, great granddaughter of Dr. Ezra 
Stiles, an early president of Yale. He has five brothers: Ray Stannard 
Baker, B.S. Michigan Agricultural College; Charles Fuller Baker, B.S. 
Michigan Agricultural and M.S. Leland Stanford, Jr., University; 
Harry Denio Baker; Clarence Dwight Baker, B.A. Macalester College; 
and James Fred Baker, B.S. Michigan Agricultural College ’o2 and M.F. 
Yale Forest School ’o5, and one sister, Winnie Baker, B.A. Carleton 
College. 
He was prepared in the Preparatory Department of Macalester College, 
St. Paul, Minn. He taught in a district school for two years (1895-97), 
and worked in a real estate office and lumber yard three summers. In 
1901 he received the degree of B.S. from the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
