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(died in 1888). His father was a merchant in Litchfield, Conn., prior to 
1886, and from 1888 to 1908 was business manager of Atlanta University, 
Atlanta, Ga. Several of his paternal ancestors fought in the Revolution. 
He has one sister, Mrs. George Knight Howe. 
He was prepared at the Litchfield High School and received the degree 
of B.Agr. from Storrs (now Connecticut) Agricultural College in 1808, 
where he was second lieutenant in the cadet corps. He entered the 
Division of Forestry in 1900 and was assigned to various field parties in 
Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, in Minnesota and California, the 
latter assignment being while he was a student in the Yale Forest School. 
He was married February 17, 1900, in Springfield, Ill, to Miss Margaret 
Alice Young of Springfield, Ill, daughter of Robert Young and Laura 
Jane (Irwin) Young. 
Smith has been forest supervisor in the United States Forest 
Service since August I, 1908, with headquarters during that 
year in Pocatello National Forest, Pocatello, Idaho, and since 
1909 in Cache National Forest, Logan, Utah. He entered the Ser- 
vice in 1904 as forest assistant and was engaged in the study of 
redwoods in California. In 1905-06 he acted as technical assist- 
ant in Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, and in 1907-08 
held the same position in Weiser and Boise National forests, 
Idaho. Aside from his prescribed duties, he has been interested 
in a variety of projects. While at Logan he has been engaged 
in the establishment of a course of study for forest rangers 
at the Utah Agricultural College and has delivered a course of 
lectures there. He has secured gratifying results through the. 
sanitation of Logan River Watershed, bringing the local Board 
of Health into codperation with the Forest Service. He is inter- 
ested in the application of the principles of scientific management 
to his work, and has prepared two original papers on that. 
subject. He is the author of numerous reports on silvical sub- 
jects. In timber reconnaissance he completed a portion of the 
Weiser Forest and initiated similar work on the Pocatello and 
Cache National forests. He is a member of the District 
Investigative Committee of the Forest Service. 
He is a member of the Congregational church. He is a mem- 
ber of the Society of American Foresters, the Commercial 
Boosters Club of Logan, Utah, and is a Mason. 


