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latter date in the capacity of deputy supervisor of Rainier Forest, 
his headquarters at present being Tacoma, Wash. 
He is a member of the Congregational church. He is a mem- 
ber of Masonic orders, Knights of Pythias and the Concatenated 
Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
Janero Lagdameo 
Bureau of Forestry, Manila, P. I. 
Janero Lagdameo was born in Quinayangan, P. I., in 1880. 
He received the degree of B.A. at Ateneo de Manila in 1896. 
After graduation from the Yale Forest School in 1905 
Lagdameo entered the Forest Service in the Philippine Islands, 
where he has since continued. He has furnished no information 
for this record. 
Jacob J. Levison 
Business address, Department of Parks, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
P Residence, 526 Cleveland Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Jacob Joshua Levison was born January 20, 1881, in Riga, Russia, the 
son of Julius Levison and Esther (Apte) Levison. The family resides 
in Russia and the members are chiefly rabbis, teachers and well known 
philanthropists. 
He came to the United States in 1893, entered the public schools of 
New York and was graduated in 1896 with two medals. He then studied 
art at Cooper Union but later gave this up to allow more time for 
the work at college. He spent eight years in connection with the social 
work at the University Settlement, where he taught out-door athletics. 
He received the degree of B.A. at the College of the City of New York 
in 1902. 
He is unmarried. 
Levison acted as forest assistant for one year and then became 
a forester in the employ of the City of New York, having charge 
of the department of Brooklyn and Queens. Since 1908 he has 
also served as a staff lecturer at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences and for the New York City Board of Education, 
and since 1909 as forester of the American Association for 


