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was a cotton planter and slaveholder with a plantation on the Tombigbee 
River, Alabama. He also assisted in the construction of the fortification 
around Mobile, Ala., for the Confederate Government. His mother was 
born in Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1818, daughter of Sherman 
Reynolds and Sarah (Parker) Reynolds. He has three brothers living: 
B. R. Ivy, William T. Ivy and Jesse C. Ivy, B.A. Harvard ’74, LL.B. ’76. 
He received a B.A. at Harvard in 1881 and for many years was engaged 
as a private banker in Atlanta, Ga. Ill health, superinduced by a sun- 
stroke, forced him to give up banking. : 
He was married in 1893 in Lowell, Mass., to Miss Julia Dalton Nesmith 
of Lowell, Mass., daughter of the late Hon. John Nesmith, lieutenant 
governor of Massachusetts, and Harriet (Mansur) Nesmith. 
Since leaving the Yale Forest School, Ivy has been engaged 
in forest engineering in Conway Center, N. H. 
, He has published a pamphlet, the forestry problem in the 
United States, and various addresses on the subject of forestry. 
John E. Keach 
Business address, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
John Everett Keach was born July 4, 1874, in Northampton, Mass., 
the son of John Keach and Ellen Maria (Jackson) Keach. His father 
served in the Civil War, 18th Connecticut, from 1862 to 1864. He is 
the grandson of John H. Keach and Harriett (Young) Keach of Daniel- 
son, Conn. He has two brothers: Merrill Henry Keach, and Walter 
Edmund Keach, who attended the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale from 
1902 to 1906. ; 
He was prepared at the Northampton High School and at Andover 
and in 1900 received the degree of B.A. from Yale. 
He was married December 26, 1907, in Boston, Mass., to Miss Alice 
Belle Ricker, Smith ’98, of Falmouth, Maine, daughter of Wentworth 
Pottle Ricker and Dorcas Ann (Merrill) Ricker (now Mrs. Barker). 
They have one son, John Ricker Keach, born June 24, 1909, in Missoula, 
Mont. 
Keach has been an assistant in the United States Forest Ser- 
vice since graduating from the Yale Forest School. He writes: 
“Since leaving Yale Forest School I have served as forest 
assistant on the following national forests: Absaroka in Mon- 
tana, Payette in Idaho, Helena in Montana, Medicine Bow in 
Wyoming, and Arkansas in Arkansas. In 1908 was transferred 
to office work, District 1, Missoula, Mont. In 1910 was trans- 
