122 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

CLASS OF 1906 
GRADUATES HOLDING DEGREE oF M.F. 
J. Howard Allison 
Business address, Care of College of Forestry, University Farm, St. 
Paul, Minn. 
Residence, 2116 Carter Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. 
Granby, Conn. 
John Howard Allison was born September 25, 1883, in East Granby, 
Conn., the son of John Alexander Allison, a farmer and holder of various 
town offices, and Mary Elizabeth (Mack) Allison. On his father’s side 
che is Scotch, and on his mother’s Irish. He has one brother, Nathan K. 
Allison, who attended Trinity College in Hartford in 1911. 
He was prepared at the district schools in East Granby and Granby 
and at the Hartford High School in Hartford, Conn. and graduated 
from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1905. 
He was married September 6, 1911, in New Haven, Conn., to Miss 
Mabel Ann Shepard of Hamden, Conn., daughter of Henry Shepard 
and Alice M. (Warner) Shepard. They have a son, John Howard 
Allison, Jr., born April 19, 1913. 
From July 16, 1906, until January 1, 1909, Allison held the 
position of forest assistant, assigned to general administration 
work on the Coconino (old San Francisco Mountains) National 
Forest until April 1, 1908, and from July 1, 1908, until January 
I, 1909, he was in charge of the Coconino National Forest 
reconnaissance party. From then until August 15, 1911, he 
was inspecting reconnaissance work or in charge of field parties 
in District 3. He says: “During this time I prepared the 
Coconino Working Plan (area now embraced in the Coconino- 
Tusayan), which I believe I could now greatly improve. I do 
not now believe the Service is following the right ‘tack’ to 
get a working plan which produces ‘plans’ of value to super- 
visors. Since February 1, 1912, I have been in charge of 
reconnaissance and since June 15, 1912, also in charge of the 
office of ‘Geography’ in District 3. During this time I have 
gathered the data for an accurate topographic and type map 
of the Sitgreaves, which I believe the Service will publish as a 



