100 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

James P. McDonough 
Business address, Glen Morgan, W. Va. 
38 Hallock Street, New Haven, Conn. 
James Patrick McDonough was born October 29, 1880, in New Haven, 
Conn., the son of Frank McDonough, a machinist with the New York, 
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, and Catherine (Donnelly) 
McDonough. He has five brothers: Joseph McDonough; Edward Michael — 
McDonough, Yale ’09 S.; Vincent McDonough, a graduate of St. Thomas 
Seminary, Hartford, Conn.; Francis Thomas Aloysius McDonough, Yale 
13 S.; and John McDonough, student at St. Thomas Seminary, Hartford, 
and two sisters: Rosemary and Stella McDonough, both graduates of the 
New Haven Normal School. 
He was prepared at the New Haven High School and in 1903 gradu- 
ated from Yale College, where he received a second colloquy appoint- 
ment in his Junior and Senior years. 
He was married April 29, 1910, in Beckley, W. Va, to Miss 
Bess M. Hall of Pulaski, Va., daughter of Leonard and Mabel Hall. 
They have one son, John McDonough, born March 1, 1911, in Glen 
Morgan, W. Va. 
McDonough is employed by the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 
pany of Columbus, Ohio. He entered upon his present position 
in 1907. Before that he had been engaged in engineering work 
at Warren, Ark., for the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company of 
St. Louis. 
He is a member of the Roman Catholic church. 
William H. Mast 
Business address, Davenport, Iowa 
Home address, Ottumwa, Iowa 
William Herbert Mast was born August 16, 1879, in Ottumwa, Wapello 
County, Iowa, the son of Jacob Gehman Mast, a pioneer and highly 
respected citizen of Ottumwa (died January 13, 1909), and Frances E. 
(Miller) Mast, the youngest of a family of eight daughters and two 
sons of Thomas and Jane (Hunter) Miller of Keosauqua, Iowa. Jacob 
G: Mast was a son of Isaac Mast and a grandson of Bishop Jacob 
Mast, who emigrated from Switzerland to America in 1750 and settled 
at Northkill, Berks County, Pa. Wiliam H. Mast has three brothers: 
Frank Miller Mast, Charles Fulton Mast and Thomas Walter Mast, 
B.Agr. Iowa State College ’97. 


