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a temporary detail of six or seven weeks in Washington, D. C., 
while en route. While in San Francisco, seven months, I had 
occasion to visit almost all of the forest headquarters and some 
of the forests proper of California, accepting an assignment as 
supervisor of the Klamath National Forest to supersede acting 
superintendent Harley in July, 1909. After one year in charge 
of the Siskiyou National Forest in Southwestern Oregon, I 
am now to leave in two or three days to take charge of the 
Olympic National Forest of Western Washington, a more 
important forest and a bigger job.” 
In politics he is a “Progressive, generally Republican.” He 
is a member of the Society of American Foresters, the Geological 
Society, the American Forestry Association and the Concatenated 
Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
Non GRADUATES 
Ford D. Bacon 
Harveyville, Pa. 
Ford Dorrance Bacon was graduated from Bucknell Univer- 
sity in 1904. He attended the Yale Forest School in 1904-05. 
He has furnished no information for this record. 
*Jacob F. Bitner 
Died 1912 
Jacob Foster Bitner was born July 5, 1883, in Penn Hall, Center 
County, Pa., the son of Joseph K. Bitner, a retired farmer of Spring 
Mills, Pa., and Elizabeth P. (Fetterolf) Bitner. A sister, Jennie Coburn 
Bitner, survives him. 
He was prepared at Spring Mills (Pa.) Academy and in 1904 graduated 
from Franklin and Marshall College. 
He was unmarried. 
After leaving the Yale Forest School Bitner taught one term 
at the Center Hall (Pa.) High School and was agent for the Mor- 
ris Cigar house, later becoming agent for the Capewell Horse Nail 
Company of Hartford, Conn. He was employed for a time on 


