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three color map late this fall. I have other forest maps in 
the process of compilation.” He resigned from the Service 
in January, 1913, to take up teaching at the College of Forestry 
at St. Paul, Minn. 
Concerning his travels, Allison writes: “My travels, outside 
of trips in connection with my duties in the Service, have 
been confined to brief pleasure trips to California (1906, 1909 
and 1911), the Yellowstone National Park (1909) and through 
the Canadian Rockies along the Canadian Pacific Railroad 
(1911).” 
He is a Congregationalist, and in politics is a Progressive 
Republican. From July, 1907, to July, 1910, he was a private 
in the Arizona National Guard. 
F red E. Ames 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Beck Building, Portland, 
Ore. 
Residence, University Club, Portland, Ore. 
Fred Elijah Ames was born July 21, 1880, in Spencer, Mass., the son 
of James Howe Ames, member of the Massachusetts legislature and a 
merchant in Spencer for twenty-five years, and Maria Theresa (Hill) 
Ames. He is of English ancestry. He has one brother, Leroy Allston 
Ames, B.A. Harvard ’96 and M.A. ’or, and two sisters: Alice Louise 
Ames and Florence Ella Ames. 
He was prepared at the David Prouty High School, Spencer, Mass., 
and attended the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, in 1899-00. In 
1903 he received the degree of B.A. at Harvard, where he was a member 
of Delta Upsilon. During the year 1903-04 he was employed in a banking 
house in Boston, Mass. 
He is unmarried. 
Ames is assistant district forester in the United States Forest 
Service, in charge of the office of silviculture, District 6, Port- 
land, Ore. Upon entering the Service in July, 1906, he became 
forest assistant with headquarters at Washington, D. C. This 
position he held until April, 1907, when he was appointed assist- 
ant inspector with headquarters at Portland, Ore. In July, 
1907, he was made inspector and on December 1, 1908, chief of 
silviculture, which position he held until his present appointment, 
January I, I9I0. 
