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Elisabeth (Burrowes) Ross. On his father’s side he is of Scotch 
Canadian and on his mother’s of English and Irish ancestry. 
He was prepared at the Carlton Place High School and Kingston 
Collegiate Institute and received the degree of B.A. from Queen’s Uni- 
versity in 1888 and in 1889 the degree of M.A. Following his graduation 
from college he taught for thirteen years in the Ontario high schools 
and the Collegiate Institute. His specialty was mathematics and natural 
science. 
He is unmarried. 

In 1906-07 Ross was technical assistant in the Forestry Branch 
of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Ontario. In October, 
1907, he was appointed lecturer in forestry at the University of 
Toronto, which position he still holds. He is also consulting 
forester in the Department of Natural Resources of the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway, Calgary, Alberta. He received this 
appointment in May, 1912. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church and in politics 
is a liberal Conservative. In 1887 he was color sergeant in the 
Princess of Wales Own Rifles, Kingston, Ontario. He is a 
Mason of the Grand Lodge of Canada and a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Grand Lodge of Ontario. 
He has written numerous articles on forestry for the Canadian 
Magazine, Canadian Courier, Canadian Forestry Journal, etc., 
and for the bulletins of the Dominion Forest Service. 
Robert Y. Stuart 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Robert Young Stuart was born February 13, 1883, in Carlisle, Pa., the 
son of William Chalmers Stuart and Janet (Morris) Stuart. He is of 
Scotch-Irish ancestry. He has one brother, Hugh Patterson Stuart, Ph.B. 
Dickinson ’03, and one sister, Helen Beecher Stuart, who took a special 
course in music at Wilson in IoII. 
He was prepared at the Carlisle (Pa.) High School, and received the 
degree of B.A. in 1903 from Dickinson, where he was a member of Phi 
Delta Theta and Raven’s Claw. He spent the summer of 1903 in travel 
abroad and from October, 1903, to June, 1904, was traveling sales agent 
for the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company of New Kensington, Pa. 
In 1906 he received an M.A. degree from Dickinson. 
He was married December 9, 1907, in Harrisburg, Pa., to Miss Janet 
Wilson of Harrisburg, daughter of David Wilson (deceased) and Frances 
Wilson. 


