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nia, and later was transferred to the Rainier Forest, Washington. 
He then became timber cruiser for the Department of the 
Interior, Oregon. He again was appointed forest assistant in 
timber sales, District 6, and after this deputy forest supervisor 
of Cascade National Forest, Oregon. He is at present forest 
assistant with headquarters in Portland, Ore. 
He is a Progressive. He is a member of the University Club 
of Portland, Ore., and the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
He has published: The Problem of the dune, Calif. Jrl. Tech., 
1904. 
Kingsley R. MacGuffey 
Parkdale, Ore. 
Kingsley Rich MacGuffey was born January 5, 1880, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, the son of Alexander Hamilton MacGuffey, LL.D., a lawyer of 
the firm of MacGuffey, Morrell & Strunk, and Caroline Virginia (Rich) 
MacGuffey, a niece of Maria Mitchell, professor of astronomy at Vassar 
College, and a descendant of John Rich, first Earl of Warwick, England. 
His father is a non-graduate of Miami University, having been a stu- 
dent there in 1832 and was dean of the Cincinnati College of Law. On 
his father’s side he is of Scotch and on his mother’s of American 
descent. He had three brothers: Telford, Winthrop, C.E. Harvard ’95, 
and Harold, all deceased; and two sisters: Agnes (deceased) and 
Margaret, who graduated from the Albany State Library School in 1896. 
An uncle, Frederick Packard, graduated from Yale in 1848. 
He was prepared at the Taft School, Watertown, Conn., and graduated 
from Yale in 1905, where he was Dwight Hall organist and a member 
of the Boys’ Club Committee. 
He is unmarried. 
MacGuffey is president of the Red Cross Orchard Company 
of Parkdale, Ore. In addition to managing his ranch there, 
he is’ also in the employ of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph 
Company of San Francisco. He entered their traffic department 
in February, 1913. 
Immediately after graduation from the Forest School in 1907, 
he entered the United States Forest Service, spending the months 
of July and August making a study of hickory in Tennessee, 
and from then until November he was stationed in Washington, 
D. C. From there he was sent to Missoula, Mont., as forest 
assistant. He held this position until June, 1908, when he was 
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