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NON GRADUATES CLASS OF 1906 147 

He is a member of the Lutheran church and in politics is a 
National Progressive. 
John P. Wentling 
Business address, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 
Residence, 2160 Carter Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. 
Knox, Pa. 
John Philip Wentling was born February 2, 1878, in Knox, Pa., the son 
of Eli Wentling and Christina (Barlett) Wentling. He has three 
sisters and two brothers: Martha Ella Hugus, Melissa Cathrine Barlett, 
Anna Agnes Sheasley, Edward Henry Wentling and Charles Alvin 
Wentling. 
He was prepared at the Clarion (Pa.) College Institute and was 
graduated at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., in 1902. 
Previous to his college course he was a teacher in the public schools. 
After graduation from college he entered government work in forestry 
and worked in various parts of the United States until he entered Yale. 
He was married December 27, 1906, in Washington, D. C., to Miss 
Evelyn Price of Washington, D. C., daughter of Robert H. Price and 
Lucy A. ‘Price. They have one daughter, Margaret Evelyn Wentling, 
born December 4, 1907, in Washington, D. C., and one son, John Philip 
Wentling, Jr., born September 14, 1911, in Park Rapids, Minn. 
In 1905-06 Wentling was forest assistant in the United States 
Forest Service. In 1906 he was appointed professor of forestry 
at the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy, which position he 
held until 1908, when he became assistant professor of forestry 
at the University of Minnesota. In 1912 he was made associate 
professor, his present rank. From September, 1912, to April, 
1913, he was in charge of the chestnut wood utilization, for the 
Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission, during which time 
he was on leave from the University of Minnesota. 
He is a member of the Reformed Church in the United States. 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, Sigma 
Xi, the Pennsylvania and Minnesota Forestry associations, and 
the Forestry, Campus and Science clubs of the University of 
Minnesota. 
He has written Farm forestry (in collaboration), an article 
in the L. H. Bailey series; articles for the circulars of the Forest 
Service; and has delivered addresses which were published in 
various lumber journals in 1905-06. 
