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He was prepared in the Baltimore public schools and Marston’s Uni- 
versity School. He received the degree of B.A. at Johns Hopkins 
University in 1903. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. 
He was married April 10, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pa. to Miss Ellen 
Cheston MclIlvaine, daughter of H. C. McIlvaine and Frances (Randall) 
Mcllvaine. 
Nelson was a forest assistant and section chief in the Service 
from July, 1905, to September, 1909. The following year he 
was superintendent of the timber department of the Philadelphia 
and Reading Coal & Iron Company. From October 15, 1910, 
to September 1, 1911, he held the position of general sales 
agent for the Carolina Pine Lumber Company, and on the latter 
date opened a wholesale lumber business in Pottsville, Pa. 
His political opinions depend upon the men and party prin- 
ciples. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church and 
of the Society of American Foresters. 
William B. Piper 
Business address, East Tawas, Mich. 
Home address, Cambridge, Mass. 
William Bridge Piper was born November 21, 1880, in Cambridge, 
Mass., the son of William Taggard Piper, son of Solomon and Mary 
Elizabeth (Taggard) Piper, whose ancestry dates back to early colonial 
times, and Anne Palfrey (Bridge) Piper, daughter of William Frederick 
Bridge and Elizabeth Crosby (Guild) Bridge. They had three other 
children: Elizabeth Bridge Piper, Anne Taggard Piper (married Mat- 
thew Hale), and Ralph Crosby Piper. William T. Piper was prominent 
in the affairs of Cambridge, Mass., serving on the Common Council, 
Board of Aldermen, local board of Civil Service Examiners, president 
of the School Board, on the board of trustees of the Cambridge Public 
Library, a trustee of the Boston Homeopathic Hospital and the Boston 
State Hospital, and a director of the Cambridge Trust Company. 
He was prepared at the Browne-Nichols’ Preparatory School in Cam- 
bridge and was graduated with the degree of B.A. at Harvard in 1903. 
He is unmarried. . 
In the summer of 1905 Piper was located in the Medicine 
Bow Mountains, Wyo., as forest assistant; the winter, 1905-06, 
in California. The next summer and until February, 1907, 
he was furloughed to work with the Delaware & Hudson Rail- 
road Company in New York State, with headquarters at Lyon 
