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of the Eastern Lumber Company, Huttonsville, W. Va., and 
later forester for the Riordan Paper Company, Montreal, 
Canada. 
Wilbur R. Mattoon 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Residence, The Winston, Mt. Pleasant Street, Washington, D. C. 
Wilbur Reed Mattoon was born August 14, 1875, in Harwich, Mass., 
the son of Virgil Wadhams Mattoon, a clergyman of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and Mary Frances (Reed) Mattoon. He is the grand- 
son on his father’s side of Plyment Mattoon, a Scotchman, and Tryphena 
(Parker) Mattoon, and on his mother’s side of Marvin John Reed and 
Eunice Ann (Heath) Reed. He has one brother, Howard V. Mattoon, 
B.A. Wesleyan University ‘oo, and one sister, Florence A. (Mattoon) 
Bass. 
He was prepared at the Cazenovia (N. Y.) Seminary and received the 
degree of B.A. at Wesleyan University in 1899. He taught science in 
the high school at Kalamazoo, Mich., for three years and studied forestry 
one year at Cornell University before entering the Yale Forest School. 
He was married August 28, 1909, in Tyrone, N. Y., to Miss Kate Van 
Liew of Las Vegas, N. Mex., daughter of Edson Van Liew and Mary 
(Sunderland) Van Liew. They have one son, Richard Wilbur Mattoon, 
born February 8, 1912. 
Since entering the United States Forest Service Mattoon has 
held successively the positions of forest assistant, assistant forest 
inspector, inspector, forest examiner and forest supervisor. In 
1905-07 he established Fort Bayard Nursery. He was inspector 
of District 3 from 1907 to December, 1908, and chief of silvics, 
District 3, in 1908-09. In 1909-10 he was forest supervisor of 
Manzano National Forest and in 1910-12 of Manzano and Zuiii 
National forests. Since 1912 he has been employed in the office 
of silviculture, Washington, D. C. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is a member 
of the Society of American Foresters and of the American 
Forestry Association. 
He has published: Chestnut sprouts, origin and early development, 
For. Quart., 1909; Measurement of the effect of forest cover upon 
the conservation of snow waters, For. Quart., 1909. 
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