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to June 30, 1908; assistant chief of timber sales, Washington, 
D. C., July 1, 1908, to November 30, 1908; assistant chief of 
silviculture, District 1, Missoula, Mont., December 1, 1908, to 
July 1, 1909; assistant district forester, District 1, Missoula, 
Mont., July 1, 1909, to July 1, 1910; forest supervisor, Deer- 
lodge National Forest, Montana, July 1, 1910, to July 1, 1912; 
and assistant district forester, District 1, Missoula, Mont., July 
I, 1912, to the present time. In January, February and March 
of 1911 and 1912 he was detailed to give work in connection 
with short courses in forestry at the University of Montana. 
He has in preparation a bulletin on the lodgepole pine in which 
many new and interesting facts are set forth. 
In politics he is a ‘“Progressive—Independent.” He is a 
member of the Society of American Foresters and the Concat- 
enated Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
Louis S. Murphy 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, 4 Thurston Street, Winter Hill Station, Boston, Mass. 
Louis Sutliffe Murphy was born August 10, 1876, in Boston, Mass., 
the son of Joseph Henry Murphy and Elizabeth Marion (Atkins) 
Murphy. He is the grandson on his father’s side of Michael Thomas 
Murphy, born in Ireland in 1797, and Eleanor Jane (O’Neal) Murphy, 
born in Canterbury, England, in 1806, who were married in Halifax, 
N. S., Canada, in 1831. His mother’s foster parents were Sophronia 
Elizabeth Atkins and Caleb Upham Atkins. 
He was prepared at the Forster Grammar School, Somerville, Mass., 
and at the Boston English High School and from July, 1895, to Sep- 
tember, 1897, was a clerk in the insurance office of O’Brion & Russell, 
Boston. In 1901 he received the degree of B.S. from Tufts College, 
where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta. From 1901 to 1905 he was 
employed as chemist in the North Packing & Provision Company of 
Somerville, Mass. 
He is unmarried. 
Murphy has been a forest examiner in the United States 
Forest Service since January, 1910. He was forest assistant 
from July, 1907, to January, 1910. From November, 1911, to 
May, 1912, he was in Porto Rico studying its forest problems 
and formulating a forest policy for the Island as a whole and 
for Luquillo National Forest. 


