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August, 1908, and has since been engaged in business. He was 
forester and vice president of a forest planting concern from 
1908 to 1911, when he entered the real estate business, his 
' present occupation. He has also been forester of Los Angeles 
County, California, since I19ITI. 
He is a member of the Universalist church. In politics he was 
“previously Republican, at present Progressive.” 
Harold D. Foster 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Medford, Ore. 
Residence, 423 South Newtown Street, Medford, Ore. 
Harold Day Foster was born February 12, 1879, in Jersey City, N. J., 
the son of Addison Pinneo Foster (deceased), B.A. Williams ’63, M.A. 
and D.D. ’86, and Harriette (Day) Foster. His father was a Congre- 
gational clergyman and trustee of Berea College and Tuskegee Institute. 
He is the grandson on his father’s side of Eden Burroughs Foster and 
Catherine (Pinneo) Foster, and on his mother’s side of Pliny Butts Day 
and Harriette (Sampson) Day. He has two sisters: Mabel Grace Foster 
and Marion (Foster) Gribble, B.A. Mount Holyoke ’00; and one 
brother, Winthrop Davenport Foster, B.A. Williams ’o4 and M.A. ’12. 
He was prepared at the Roxbury Latin School and the Newton 
(Mass.) High School and received the degree of B.A. from Williams 
College in 1902. 
He was married December 20, 1904, in Pownal, Vt., to Miss Elisabeth 
Hermon of Pownal, daughter of William Adams Hermon and Mary Ann 
(Rickards) Hermon. They have one son, Harold Day Foster, Jr., born 
June 5, 1907, at Walla Walla, Wash. 
Foster has been employed as forest assistant in the United 
States Forest Service since July, 1904. He writes: “One 
summer’s work as student assistant in Maine in 1902 and one. 
summer’s work in the same capacity in California in 1903 in 
the Forest Service supplemented my technical education. In 
Maine I was cruising, in California mapping and gathering 
data on forest resources. My first assignment as forest assistant 
in the Service was in the Southern Appalachians, where I did 
much the same work as in California, but in addition collected 
silvical data and studied logging possibilities as the basis of 
an outline for forest management. After a year’s detail in the 
Washington office, I was assigned to the Wenaha, the Whitman 



