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of the family for a favor done him while he was traveling through the 
north of Scotland. His mother’s family was closely related to the’ 
Earlys, Johnstons, Andersons, Langhornes and Lees of Virginia. He 
had one brother, Charles Calloway Guthrie, now deceased, and four 
sisters: Mrs. William McQuown Thompson of Garanhuns, Brazil, S. A, 
Mrs. Mason Wiley Jones of Shawsville, Va., Mrs. Richard Edmonds 
Moseley of Jeffress, Va., and Mrs. Elmo E. Gibbs of Charlotte Courthouse, 
Va. 
He was prepared at the Charlotte (Va.) High School and in 1902 
received the degree of Ph.B. from Union College, where he was a member 
of Sigma Phi and editor of the college weekly and annual. After grad- 
uation from Union he was employed from 1902 to 1904 in the United 
States Forest Service in Tennessee, Maine, Texas, New Mexico, California 
and Utah. 
He was married March 25, 1912, in Riverside Ranger Station, Greer, 
Ariz., to Susan Ruggles Pratt Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., daughter of 
Judge Calvin E. Pratt, of the New York Supreme Bench (deceased), 
and Susan Pratt. 
Guthrie is supervisor in the United States Forest Service, in 
charge of the Apache National Forest, Arizona. From 1906 
to 1908 he was forest assistant and in 1908 was made deputy 
forest supervisor. He received his present appointment the 
same year. He writes: “Work in the Forest Service of the 
Department of Agriculture since entrance in 1902 has taken me 
into Tennessee, Maine, Texas, New Mexico, California, Idaho, 
Oregon, Utah, Arizona and New Hampshire. Entered the 
Forest Service as a student assistant, then rose to assistant forest 
expert, forest agent, forest assistant, deputy supervisor and 
forest supervisor, with a graduation from $300 per annum to 
$2,200 per annum. Entered and was assigned to collection of 
figures on growth, then later in working plan work in Texas, 
Maine and New Mexico, then in forest extension, later in 
investigations, then boundaries, then administrative work, where 
I am at present.” ; 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Concerning 
politics, he writes that he is a “Progressive Democrat. Believer 
in tariff for revenue only, conservation of national resources, 
and federal control of same so far as possible, regulation of the 
trusts, purity in politics, the recall and referendum (even of the 
judiciary), national aid to good roads, one term (six years) for 
president, popular election of senators, the primary system and 

