GRADUATES CLASS OF 1904 85 

Avery T. Searle 
Business address, Care of Hawkins & Pierce, Brownsville, Texas 
Residence, Brownsville, Texas 
Avery Turner Searle was born July 28, 1869, in Brookfield, Mo., the 
son of Luman B. Searle and Susan (Turner) Searle. His father was 
a native of New York and was a teacher in the public schools in Illinois, 
Missouri and Chattanooga, Tenn. His mother was born in Massachusetts 
and was the daughter of Avery Turner. 
He received the degree of B.A. from Pomona College in 1806 and 
afterward attended the University of California. During the year 1897 
he studied law with a private tutor at Oakland, Calif., and was admitted 
to the Bar by the commissioners of the Supreme Court on December 29, 
1897. Before entering the Yale Forest School he taught in high schools 
in California and in a private school in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
He was married September 20, 1903, in Lodi, Calif., to Miss Emily D. 
Colman of Lodi, daughter of Dr. Frederick W. Colman and Emily W. 
Colman. They have twins: Edward T. C. Searle and Eleanor C. Searle, 
born July 8, 1907. A daughter, Margaret Searle, born July 28, 1904, in 
Pasadena, Calif., died June 8, 1912, in Brownsville, Texas; and another, 
Dorothy C. Searle, born September 5, 1905, in Pasadena, died October 
10, 1910, at San Francisco, Calif. 
After graduation from the Yale Forest School Searle was 
appointed assistant to Mr. Lukens in reforestation in the Sierra 
Madre Mountains, Southern California. He left this position, 
however, and became assistant manager of the Oak Knoll Tract, 
Pasadena, Calif. Upon the completion of this work he was 
for a time engaged in law practice in Lodi, Calif., and later 
went to Texas, where he held the position of assistant general 
manager of the Kilgore Plantations at Mercedes and Harlingen. 
Since March 18, 1912, he has been assistant in the law office of 
Hawkins & Pierce in Brownsville, Texas. 
-He is a member of the Congregational church and in politics 
is a Progressive Republican. He is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias and of the Modern Woodmen of America. 
Clinton G. Smith 
Logan, Utah 
Clinton Gold Smith was born September 16, 1879, in North Cornwall, 
Conn., the son of Walter Dodge Smith and Mary Louise (Coe) Smith 
