94 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

CLASS OF 1905 
GRADUATES HOLDING DEGREE OF M.F. 
J. Fred Baker 
Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Mich. 
James Fred Baker was born April 20, 1880, in Saint Croix Falls, Wis., 
the son of Joseph Stannard Baker and Alice (Potter) Baker. For further 
family history see biography of H. P. Baker, M.F. ’o04. 
He was prepared at McAllister Academy, St. Paul, Minn., and was 
graduated with the degree of B.S. at Michigan Agricultural College in 
1902, 
He was married April 20, 1907, in Wayland, Mich., to Miss Bessie 
Buskirk, daughter of H. F. Buskirk. 
Upon graduation in 1905 Baker entered the United States 
Forest Service as forest assistant but he has given most of his 
time to teaching. His first position was as instructor in the 
Pennsylvania Forest Academy at Mont Alto, Pa. Later he 
became assistant professor of forestry at the Colorado School 
of Forestry, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and since 1907 
he has been professor of forestry at the Michigan Agricultural 
College, East Lansing, Mich. The latter college conferred upon 
him the degree of M.For. in 1911. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. 
John E. Barton 
Business address, State Forester, Frankfort, Ky. 
Residence, 417 Capitol Avenue, Frankfort, Ky. 
John Earle Barton was born February 12, 1870, in Warren, Mich., the 
son of Arthur Oliver Barton and Julia Alma (Hoxsey) Barton. Both 
parents are of English descent, their ancestors having come to this 
country previous to the Revolutionary War. He has one sister, Helen 
Margaret Barton, and a brother, Louis Arthur Barton, who was 
graduated at the University of Michigan in 1903. 
He was prepared in the public and high schools of Detroit, Mich., and 
was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1902. 
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