GRADUATES CLASS OF 1905 115 

John S. Holmes 
Chapel Hill, N. C. 
John Simcox Holmes was born May 31, 1868, in Coburg, Ontario, 
Canada, the son of George Holmes, who was born at Kings Heath, 
Birmingham, England, and Georgena Beatrice (Simcox) Holmes, who 
was born at Camp Hill, Birmingham, England. He has five brothers 
and sisters: George Hamilton, Lawrence Edward, Alan Launcelot, Mary 
Elise Beatrice (Allston) and Evelyn Holmes. 
He was prepared at the public schools of North Wales and in a private 
school in North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina, 
taking a two-year course in agriculture, leaving in 1888.. He farmed in 
Henderson County, N. C., from then until November, 1902, when he 
entered the U. S. Forest Service as student assistant. 
He was married November 1, 1909, in Georgetown, D. C., to Miss 
Emilie Rose Smedes, of Washington, D. C., daughter of John Esten 
Cooke Smedes and Henrietta Rea (Watts) Smedes. 
During 1905 Holmes was engaged in commercial tree studies 
in the South Appalachians and then was transferred to timber 
sale inspection in District 3 in 1906. He began the study of 
forest conditions of Kentucky in the summer of 1907 and 
received his present appointment as forester for the North Caro- 
lina Geological and Economic Survey in June, 1909. He spent 
the spring of 1912 in a trip through representative forests of 
France, Switzerland, Germany and some watersheds of England. 
He is Independent in politics but holds progressive views. 
He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, the Society 
of American Foresters, American Forestry Association, Cana- 
dian Forestry Association, North Carolina and Georgia 
Forestry associations. 
He has published: Brush disposal, Circ. U. S. Forest Service; 
Forest conditions in western North Carolina, Bull. 23, N. C. 
Geol. and Econ. Sur., Economic Papers, 19, 22, 25, etc. 
Stanton G. Smith 
Business address, Forest Service, Seattle, Wash. 
Home address, Berkley, Harford County, Md. 
Stanton Gould Smith was born July 19, 1882, in Berkley, Md., the 
son of Bernard Gilpin Smith and Rebekah Wright (Gould) Smith. A 
sister, Dorothy Cowgill Smith, was graduated at Smith College in 1900. 
