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been held by a technical forester. He is also chief fire warden 
of the Maine Forestry District. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is president of the Repub- 
lican Club of Augusta and since 1912 has been a member of 
the Augusta Republican City Committee. He is a member of 
the Society of American Foresters, the American Fisheries 
Society, the American Bison Society; also B. P. O. E., Masonic 
Orders, including Mystic Shrine, the Abnaki Club and the 
Augusta Yacht Club. 
William G. Weigle 
Business address, Ketchikan, Alaska 
United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
William Grant Weigle was born September 20, 1866, in Bendersville, Pa., 
the son of Henry B. Weigle and Anna Mary (Meals) Weigle. He has 
one brother, Samuel Harvey Weigle. 
His boyhood was spent on a farm and he later attended the Pennsyl- 
vania State Normal School. From 1806 to 1899 he was principal of 
schools in Cornwall, Pa., and from 1899 to 1901 held the same position in 
Steelton, Pa. In 1901-02 he was engaged as a railway mail clerk. 
He is unmarried. 
Weigle is forest supervisor of the Chugach and Tongass 
National forests of Alaska in the United States Forest Service. 
He has held this position since 1911. In 1904 he acted as field 
assistant in the Service and in 1905 was superintendent of the 
wood department of the Pennsylvania Paper Mills, Bloomsbury, 
Pa. In 1906 he was made assistant forest inspector in the 
‘Service, in 1907 assistant chief of forest management, in 1908 
assistant chief of state and federal codperation and in 1909 forest 
supervisor of the Coeur d’Alene National Forest. 
He is a member of the Lutheran church and in politics is a 
Progressive. He is a member of the National Geographic 
Society, the American Forestry Association, the Society of 
American Foresters, the Arctic Brotherhood and the Concat- 
enated Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
He has published: (With E. H. Frothingham) The aspens, 
Bull. 93, U. S. Forest Service. 


