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He was married April 1, 1906, in Crawfordsville, Ind., to Miss Mary 
Elizabeth Strauss of Topeka, Kans., daughter of Charles Edward Strauss 
and Sarah (Schooley) Strauss. They have had four children: Harold 
Clayton Record, born January 5, 1907, and died January 12, 1907; twins, 
Mason Thomas Record and Mary Elizabeth Record, born March 31, 1900, 
and Alice Louise Record, born May 25, 1911. 
From July 1, 1904, to April 30, 1907, Record served as 
assistant in the United States Forest Service. On May 1, 1907, 
he was made chief of the Section of Reconnaissance (M) and 
on November 25 of the same year became supervisor. He was 
again appointed forest assistant July 20, 1910, which position he 
held until March 31, rgrt. 
From January 1 to June 30, 1906, he acted as instructor in 
botany and forestry at Wabash College and from July 1, 1910, 
to June 30, 1911, was instructor in forestry at the Yale Forest 
School. He received his present appointment of assistant 
professor of forest products at Yale on July 1, 1911. 
In politics Record is a Progressive Republican. He was 
elected to the Yale chapter of Sigma Xi in 1912 and has been 
a member of the board of editors of the Forestry Quarterly and 
managing editor of the Yale Forest School News. He is a 
member of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science and of the American and Connecticut Forestry asso-' 
ciations, and is a Mason. He is Secretary of the Class of 1905, 
Yale Forest School. 
He has published: Forest conditions in Montgomery County, Indiana, 
Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1902, pp. 84-93; Forestry in Indiana, For. and 
Irr,, March, 1905, pp. 107-112; Forestry—A profession for young men, 
Pub., Wabash College, 1906, pp. 8; The hardy catalpa, Pub. 22, Depart- 
ment of Botany, Wabash College, 1906, pp. 15; The Middle West: Notes 
on the attitudes which several states hold toward their timber supplies, 
For. and Irr., April, 1907, pp. 177-180; Forest fire insurance in Germany, 
Proc. Soc. Am. Foresters, II, No. 3, pp. 95-102, July, 1907; The forests 
of Arkansas, For. Quart., V, No. 37, pp. 296-301, Sept., 1907; Sugges- 
tions to woodlot owners in the Ohio Valley region, Circ. 138, For. Ser., 
Feb., 1908, pp. 15; Missouri’s opportunities in forestry, Ann. Rep., Mo. 
State Bd. Hort., 1908, pp. 7; The forest resources of Arkansas, Little 
Rock, Ark., 1910, pp. 35; Forest conditions of the Ozark Region of 
Missouri, Bull. 89, Mo. St. Agric. Exp. Sta., Univ. of Mo., Nov., 19710, 
pp. 195-280; Some new ideas in controlling forest fires, Am. For., April, 
IQII, pp. 197-203; Grain and texture in wood, For. Quart., IX, No. 1, 


