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Mitchell Butler, Elizabeth Ann Butler and Cordelia L. Butler, and one 
brother, John Scot Butler, all graduates of Butler College. 
He was prepared at the Butler Preparatory School and in 1902 received 
the degree of B.A. from Butler College, where he was a member of Sigma 
Chi. In 1902-03 he worked as student assistant in the Bureau of Forestry 
about eight months and for two years afterward was engaged in news- 
paper work in Indianapolis. 
He was married November 28, 1908, in Indianapolis, Ind., to Miss Adele 
McMaster of Indianapolis, daughter of John L. McMaster and Alpha 
(Steenrod) McMaster. 

Butler is assistant district forester in the department of silvi- 
culture in the United States Forest Service with headquarters at 
Ogden, Utah. Upon entering the Service in July, 1907, he was 
appointed forest assistant. He afterward became deputy forest 
supervisor and later assistant chief of silviculture. 
Philip T. Coolidge 
Business address, New York State Ranger School, Wanakena, N. Y. 
Home address, 77 Garfield Street, Watertown, Mass. 
Philip Tripp Coolidge was born December 5, 1883, in Fall River, Mass., 
the son of Herbert Coolidge and Phila Emma (Tripp) Coolidge. His 
father was active in public affairs, being a member of library, finance 
and town committees. He is the grandson on his father’s side of John 
Coolidge of Watertown, Mass., and Martha (Sturtevant) Coolidge of 
Waterville, Maine, and on his mother’s side of Azariah S. Tripp and 
Elizabeth R. (Griffin) Tripp, both of Fall River, Mass. He has two 
sisters: Delpha Coolidge, B.A. Vassar ’07, and Elizabeth G. Coolidge; 
and one brother, Roger Coolidge. 
He was prepared at the Cambridge Latin School and in 1905 received 
the degree of B.A. from Harvard University. 
He is unmarried. 
Coolidge is professor of forestry, in charge of the New York 
Ranger School, at the New York State College of Forestry, 
Syracuse, N. Y. From 1906 to 1909 he acted as forest assistant 
in the United States Forest Service, chiefly in the national forests 
of Colorado. In 1909-10 he was assistant professor in the Colo- 
rado School of Forestry, Colorado College, and in 1910 became 
professor and director of this School. This position he held 
until he received his present appointment in 1912. 



