

GRADUATES CLASS OF 1907 157 

John H. Foster 
Durham, N. H. 
John Harold Foster was born April 13, 1880, in Waltham, Mass., the 
son of John Foster and Nellie (Webster) Foster. His father was born 
in Marlow, N. H., and his ancestors came from Massachusetts. His 
mother was born in Royalston, Mass. He has two sisters: Lena F. 
(Foster) Wood and Ethel D. (Foster) Muzzey. 
He was prepared at the Waltham High School and received the degree 
of B.S. from Norwich University in 1903. In 1903-04 he was a student 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At college he was a mem- 
ber of Theta Chi and Alpha Zeta. He spent the year 1904 in a European 
trip and in 1904-05 was an instructor in Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. 
He is unmarried. 
Foster is professor of forestry in the New Hampshire State 
College and foréster of the State Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, which positions he has held since September 1, 1911. He 
was at one time forest assistant in the United States Forest 
Service and later was assistant chief of state codperation. He 
writes that his chief experiences in the Service consisted of 
work in the “Rocky Mountain region or in silvical investiga- 
tions, studies of forest conditions in Alabama, Mississippi and 
Louisiana in separate years, woodlot and timber tract examina- 
tions over all the eastern states, examinations of forest con- 
ditions on watersheds of Allegheny and Monongahela rivers for 
Pittsburgh Flood commissions, and in the study of taxations of 
forests in New Hampshire for the State Forestry Commission.” 
He is a member of the Unitarian church. In 1902-03 he was 
first lieutenant of the Vermont National Guard. He is a 
member of the Society of American Foresters, the American 
Forestry Association, the Society for the Protection of New 
Hampshire Forests, the Eastern Foresters Association, the 
Souhegan Country Club, and is a Mason. He is Secretary of 
the Class of 1907, Yale Forest School. 
He has published: Cut over lands in Mississippi, Circ., U. S. Forest 
Service; Engelmann spruce in Rocky Mountains, Circ., U. S. Forest 
Service; Report on taxation in New Hampshire, Rep. State Forestry 
Com., 1907-8; Report on watershed conditions, Rep. Pitts. Flood Com., 
1911; Care of farm woodlots, Circ., N. H. Agric. Exp. Sta.; Forest con- 
ditions in southwestern Mississippi, Bull., Miss. State Geol. Sur. He has 
also written miscellaneous articles in magazines and lumber journals. 
