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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1904 83 

Patterson is forest supervisor in the United States Forest 
Service with headquarters in Sequoia National Forest, California. 
From July 1, 1902, to June 30, 1904, he was employed as 
student assistant in the Service, after which he became forest 
assistant. This appointment he held until December 31, 1906. 
He was appointed special agent of the Bureau of Corporations 
‘on August 15, 1907, and on May 1, 1908, he became chief of 
the office of federal codperation, which position he held until 
his present appointment, January 24, I9gI0. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church and in politics is 
a Progressive Republican. He is a member of the Society of 
American Foresters and of the Sierra Club: 
Allan R. Powers, M.D. 
Business address, Southern Pacific Hospital, San Francisco, Calif. 
Home address, 2009 Buchanan Street, San Francisco, Calif. 
rit Ellis Street, San Francisco, Calif. 
Allan Raymond Powers was born May 23, 1881, in San Rafael, Calif., 
the son of George Herman Powers, B.A. Harvard ‘61, M.D. and M.A. 
65, and Cornelia Jeanette (Chapman) Powers. His father served in the 
23d Massachusetts in the Civil War as surgeon. He is the grandson on 
his mother’s side of Russell Chapman and Maria (Ives) Chapman. He 
has one brother, George H. Powers, Jr., B.L. University of California 
*98 and M.D. ’o2, and two sisters: Ruth Powers and Katherine Powers. 
He was prepared at Selbourne School, San Rafael, Calif., and received 
the degree of B.S. from the University of California in December, 1901. 
He spent the year 1902-03 at Cornell University at the New York State 
School of Forestry. At college he was a member of Sigma Alpha 
Epsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon and Skull and Keys. 
He is unmarried. 
From 1904 to 1907, and again in the summer of 1908, Powers 
was technical assistant in the United States Forest Service. In 
1909 and 1910 he was cruiser for the Southern Pacific Railroad 
Company. He writes: “In August, 1907, gave up forestry to 
study medicine, to go into business with my father. Spent three 
years at the University of California and the last two at Cooper 
Medical College [San Francisco], graduating in May, 1912.” 
On May 15, 1912, he was appointed interne in the Southern 
Pacific Hospital, San Francisco, Calif. 
