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In politics he is a Progressive Democrat. He was secretary 
of the Minnesota State Forest Association from 1906 to 1912 
and since 1912 has been a member of the State Forestry Board. 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, the 
National Geographic Society, the Minnesota Forestry Club and 
the Campus Club of the University of Minnesota. 
He has written articles for the Forestry Quarterly and for 
Forestry and Irrigation and for three years was editor of the 
Minnesota Forester. 
Galen S. Cleland 
Wells, York County, Maine 
Galen Snow Cleland attended the Yale Forest School in 
1904-05. After leaving the School he was engaged in private 
work in Calais, Maine, and from January to October, 1907, he 
was with the Laurentide Company, Grand Mere, Canada. He 
has furnished no information for this record. 
Walter O. Filley 
Business address, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New 
Haven, Conn. 
Residence, 144 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, Conn. 
Walter Owen Filley was born July 27, 1877, in New Haven, Conn., 
the son of Myron W. Filley (deceased), a photographer, and Cleora 
(Gilbert) Filley. His father’s ancestors came to Windsor, Conn., in 
1632, and his mother’s settled in New Haven in 1638. He has one 
brother, Homer G. Filley, and three sisters: Mary E. (Filley) Wana- 
maker, Lovella C. Filley and Sara W. (Filley) Chatfield. 
He is a graduate of the Hillhouse High School, New Haven, Conn. 
Before entering the Yale Forest School he spent ten years in the photo- 
graphic business, including eighteen months with the Eastman Kodak 
Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
He is unmarried. 
Filley was at one time acting state forester of Connecticut. 
He afterward became assistant instructor in the Yale Forest 
' School and later assistant in forestry at the Connecticut Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station. He became assistant state forester 
in October, 1911, and in September, 1912, state forester. 



