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Scott is state forester and professor of forestry at the Kansas 
State Agricultural College, which positions he has held since 
June 1, r910. He was forest assistant in the United States 
Forest Service in 1905 and forest supervisor from 1906 to 
December 31, 1907, when he became professor of forestry at 
Iowa State College. This position he held until his present 
appointment. 
He is a member of the Congregational church. He is a Pro- 
gressive. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters 
and is a Mason. 
He has written articles for Forestry and Irrigation and for numerous 
farm papers. He has also published articles in Bulletin 120 of the lowa 
Experiment Station in Ames, Iowa, in 1910, and in Circulars ro, 13 and 
20 of the Kansas Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas, in 1911-12. 
Alpheus O. Waha 
United States Forest Service, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 
Alpheus Oliver Waha was born August 27, 1881, in Erie, Pa., the son 
of Charles H. Waha and Emma (Boitz) Waha. He is of German 
ancestry. He has three sisters: Nell, Bessie and Grace Waha, and three 
brothers: Leroy, Raymond and Howard Waha, B.S. Pennsylvania State 
University. 
He was prepared at the Erie High School, after which he worked 
with a manufacturing concern for two years. In 1901 he attended the 
Yale Summer School of Forestry, and in the fall of the same year entered 
the Bureau of Forestry, where he worked as a student assistant in Mary- 
land, Tennessee, New York, Maine, Texas and Alabama until 1904, when 
he entered the Yale Forest School. 
He was married January 12, 1910, in Albuquerque, N. Mex., to Miss 
Mary Simms of Herkimer, N. Y., daughter of George Simms and 
Charlotte (Snell) Simms. They have one daughter, Barbara Waha, 
born June 11, 1912, in Albuquerque, N. Mex. 
Waha is assistant district forester in the United States Forest 
Service with headquarters in Albuquerque, N. Mex. From July 
I, 1905, to April 30, 1907, he acted as forest assistant, being 
assigned to Gila National Forest, New Mexico. In May, 1907, 
he was appointed forest inspector of District 3, which position 
he held until December, 1908, when he received his present 
appointment. 
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