
GRADUATES CLASS OF 1907 149 

CLASS OF 1907 
GRADUATES HOLDING DEGREE OF M.F. 
William B. Barrows 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, Croton on Hudson, N. Y. 
William Burnett Barrows was born June 13, 1885, in Matthewson, 
Kans., the son of William Kent Hayes, at one time postmaster at Par- 
' sons, Kans., and now connected with the Parsons Water Supply & Power 
Company, and Caroline Alabama (Burnett) Hayes. He is of Scotch 
and English ancestry. He is the adopted son of Samuel June Barrows, 
B.D. Harvard Divinity School ’75 and D.D. Howard University, Wash- 
ington, ’97, of English and Huguenot ancestry, and Isabel Chapin (Hayes) 
Barrows, sister of William Kent Hayes. Samuel Barrows is an ex- 
congressman and clergyman; he represented the United States on the 
International Prison Commission in 1896 and was corresponding secretary 
of the Prison Association of New York in 1900. He has two sisters: 
Janet (Hayes) Davis, a graduate of Teachers College, Columbia Univer- 
sity, and Anna Gibb Hayes; and one brother, Edgar Burnett Hayes, a 
graduate of the University of Kansas. He has an adopted sister, Mabel 
Hay (Barrows) Mussey, a graduate of Radcliffe College; also a step- 
sister, Helen Margaret Hayes, and two step-brothers: Robin Leslie Hayes 
and Alfred Leslie Hayes. 
He was prepared at the Edward Everett School, Boston, Mass., the 
Boston Latin School, the Mechanic Arts High School, Boston,:and the 
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. In 1905 he received the degree of 
B.A. from Columbia University. 
He is unmarried. 
Barrows has been forest assistant in the United States Forest 
Service since July 1, 1907, and is at present in charge of the 
section of forest measurements in the Washington office. He 
spent the greater part of the summer of 1912 with E. H. Froth- 
ingham, a graduate of the University of Michigan, in a study 
of hemlock and northern hardwoods in the Lake States. He 
writes: “I spent seven months during the summer of Ig09 in 
Montana estimating timber. During 1912 I spent four months 
‘studying the results of forest planting in the East and Middle 
West.” 
