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nothing had been done. I stayed until April and was then sent 
to Montana with Mr. E. A. Sherman. I stayed two weeks and 
was called to Washington to serve in the capacity of district 
forester for District 1. This under the old scheme was in no 
_ way similar to the present position. It was an assignment to 
handle general omnibus letters for signature of Washington 
office administration officers. Left Washington as assistant 
forest inspector and went to New Mexico to look over the 
Portales with the result of eliminating the entire forest. Came 
back to Montana in the spring of 1907 as forest inspector and 
put the administration on the newly created cabinet. With 
Redington, Class of 1904, worked up the plan of re-districting 
the forests in Montana and Idaho. From 1907 to December 1, 
1908, was a general inspection officer. With the creation of the 
district office at Missoula for District 1, I was appointed assistant 
district forester, which title was changed later to associate 
district forester upon district forester W. B. Greeley being 
- called into Washington as assistant forester. I was made 
district forester July 1, 1911, which position I now hold.” 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters. 
Gordon E. Tower 
Business address, Waldo Hills Orchard Company, Route 5, Salem, Ore. 
Home address, Belding, Mich. 
Gordon Edwin Tower was born July 5, 1877, in Belding, Mich., the 
son of Benjamin Franklin Tower, a Civil War veteran, and Eva L. 
(Peterson) Tower. His grandfather was a Vermont Yankee. He has 
two brothers and a sister: R. Tower, B.S. Michigan Agricultural Col- 
lege, Glen Tower, Belding High School, and Nellie E. Tower. 
He prepared at the Belding (Mich.) High School, was graduated with 
the degree of B.S. at Michigan Agricultural College in 1901 and had 
served in the Forest Service from July, 1901, until entering the Yale 
Forest School. 
He was married December 21, 1905, in Portland, Maine, to Miss Bessie _ 
Geraldine Leeds, of Sioux City, Iowa, daughter of William B. Leeds 
and Sarah Ann Leeds. They have two children: William Gordon 
Tower, born December 26, 1906, in Orono, Maine, and Ellen Tower, 
born May 22, 1909, in Orono, Maine. , 
Tower was an assistant at the Yale Forest School at Milford, 
Pa., during the summer of 1905 and then became professor of 
