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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1906 131 

Arthur B. Recknagei 
Business address, Department of Forestry, Cornell University, 
Ithaca: N: 
Home address, 223 East Nineteenth Street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Arthur Bernhard Recknagel was born December 15, 1883, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., the son of John Hermann Recknagel, a commission merchant and 
president of the American Spice Trade Association, and Marie (Wester- 
mann) Recknagel (died May 1, 1890). He is the grandson on his father’s 
side of Carl L. Recknagel and Elise (Loéhning) Recknagel of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and on his mother’s side of Bernhard Westermann and Johanna 
(Brasch) Westermann of New York City. He has three brothers: Carl 
L. Recknagel, Jr., John H. Recknagel, Jr, and Harold S. Recknagel, 
Yale ’98 and LL.B. Columbia ’o1; and two sisters: Viola Recknagel 
and Friede Recknagel. ’ 
He was prepared at Bedford Military Academy, Great Neck, L. I., and 
Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1904 graduated from Yale 
College, where he was a member of Sigma Xi and of the Orations Base- 
ball team and was the recipient of the Scott Prize in German. 
‘He was married August 25, 19090, in Albuquerque, N. Mex., to Miss 
Mary Thomas Miller of Harrisonburg, Va., daughter of Lewis Caperton 
Miller and Ada (Pilson) Miller. They have one son, Bernhard Wester- 
mann Recknagel, born June 11, 1912, in Dresden, Germany. 
Recknagel is professor of forestry in the New York State 
College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 
where he teaches forest management, forest utilization and wood 
technology. He has held this position since February 1, 1913. 
He writes: “On entering the Forest Service as forest assistant 
in 1906 my first assignment was to Santa Fé, N. Mex., where 
I was engaged in timber sale examinations on the Jemez, Carson 
and Pecos National forests. Transferred in November to the 
Beaver National Forest, Utah, for similar work, and again to 
the Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, Ariz., in December, 
where I remained on growth studies (western yellow pine), 
marking and estimates until the end of June, 1907, when I was 
ordered in to Washington for timber sale detail. In September 
and again in December I was in Georgia on congressional tours 
and in Tennessee on a woodlot examination. In January I was 
made acting chief of the reorganized section of reconnaissance, 
office of management. This appointment was confirmed in Feb- 
ruary and in April I started on a four months’ trip to organize 
