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of American Forestry. He has made one field trip to the North- 
east and three field trips to various parts of the West. 
He is a member of the Congregational church. In politics 
he was “previously Republican; at present Progressive.” He 
has been treasurer of the Society of American Foresters since 
February, 1910, and from February, 1911, to February, 1912, 
was a member of the Committee on Admissions. 
He has published: Extent and importance of the white pine blight, Circ., 
U. S. Forest Service, May 26, 1908; Paper birch, Silvical Leaflet 38, 
Oct. 20, 1908; Paper birch in the Northeast, Circ. 163, U. S. Forest Service, 
July 7, 1909. He has also written book reviews and various news items 
for American Forestry and has done considerable work on manuscripts by 
other authors. 
Raymond Davis 
Business address, Yakima Hotel, North Yakima, Wash. 
Home address, 62 Bowdoin Street, Portland, Maine 
Raymond Davis was born September 5, 1883, in Portland, Maine, the 
son of John Hobart Davis, cashier of the Casco National Bank, Portland, 
Maine, and Jennie E. (Constable) Davis. He is the grandson on his 
father’s side of Solomon Davis and Mary Davis of Portland, Maine, 
and his mother’s parents were William Constable and Mary Constable 
of St. John, N. B., Canada. He has one brother, Marshall Davis. 
He was prepared at the high school in Portland, Maine, and in 1905 
graduated from Bowdoin College with the degree of B.A. At college 
he was a member of Psi Upsilon. 
He was married August 25, 1909, in Portland, Maine, to Miss Avis 
Miriam Parker of Portland, daughter of Albert Henry Parker. 
After graduating from the Yale Forest School, Davis was 
employed by the Cloquet Lumber Company of Cloquet, Minn., 
nominally as forester, but in reality to learn the lumber business. 
He then became cashier of the Warren Construction Company 
at North Yakima, laying the bitulithic pavement. He is at 
present engaged in fruit ranching in North Yakima, Wash. 
He writes: “Since leaving Yale and the Cloquet Lumber 
Company, where I spent a little over two years, I made a trip 
to Florida with a view of taking over the forestry work of a 
large paper company at Gainesville, but did not do so. I then 
moved to Washington, where I have since been developing my 
orchard, part of the time living on the ranch and during the 
