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Forestry and on July 1, 1912, appointed assistant director of the 
Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, Century 
Club of Washington, D. C., Army and Navy Club of Manila 
and the Baguio Country Club, Baguio, P. I. 
He has written various articles for publications of the United 
States Forest Service. 
Ferdinand A. Silcox 
Business address, Forest Service, Missoula, Mont. 
Residence, 529 Cleveland Street, Missoula, Mont. 
Ferdinand Augustus Silcox was born December 25, 1882, in Columbus, 
Ga., the son of Ferdinand Augustus Silcox, president of the Charleston 
Cotton Mills, and Carrie Olivia (Spear) Silcox. His father was of 
English descent and his mother of Dutch and French origin. 
He was prepared at the Charleston High School and received the 
degree of B.S. at the College of Charleston, S, C., in 1903 with honors 
in chemistry and sociology. He was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. 
He was married March 4, 1908, in Charleston, S. C., to Miss Marie 
Louise Thatcher of Charleston, S. C. 
Silcox is a district forester, in charge of District 1, with 
headquarters at Missoula, Mont. He writes: “During summer 
of 1904 I worked in West Virginia making a working plan 
under Ralph Hawley for the U. S. Coal & Coke Company, 
approximately 60,000 acres. Passed civil service exams in 1905 
and was assigned to the Leadville Forest in Colorado. For 
three months I worked as ranger, forest assistant and somewhat 
in the capacity of supervisor. The organization at that time 
had not crystallized and one man had charge of the Pike, Lead- 
ville and Holy Cross forests from Denver. In September, 1905, 
I was placed in charge of the Holy Cross Forest as acting 
supervisor to establish the administration and get things going. 
This forest was the center of bitter opposition to the Service 
and it was here that the famous Fred Light case first came up. 
After getting things under way I was sent to the San Juan 
and Montezuma with headquarters at Durango to get the admin- 
istration under way. These forests included together about 
3,000,000 acres, and when I arrived in early January, 1906, 


