
NON GRADUATES CLASS OF 1907 179 

He was prepared at the Pittsburgh Academy and spent the year of 
I90I in study and travel. In 1905 he graduated from Princeton Uni- 
versity with the degree of B.S. 
He is unmarried. 
Grimes left the Yale Forest School in December, 1906. He 
traveled in Europe in 1908 and in 1908-09 was a teacher in Shady 
Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pa. He was also a member of the 
Tree Commission of Pittsburgh. Since 1910 he has been city 
forester of Pittsburgh. 
He is a member of the Methodist church. In politics he is 
a Progressive. 
Burt P. Kirkland 
Business address, Care University of Washington, University Station, 
Seattle, Wash. 
Home address, Box 52, Portage, Wash. 
Burt Persons Kirkland was born February 6, 1881, in Silver Creek, 
N. Y., the son of Albert Kirkland and Annette (Persons) Kirkland. He 
is the grandson on his father’s side of James Kirkland and Sally Kirkland, 
and on his mother’s side of Horace Persons and Edith Persons. He is 
of Scotch and English descent. 
He was prepared at the Forestville (N. Y.) High School and in 1905 
received the degree of B.A. from Cornell University. 
He was married November 18, 1905, in New Haven, Conn., to Miss 
Rose Pomeroy Kearns of Ithaca, N. Y., daughter of P. F. Kearns and 
Emmeline Kearns. Mrs. Kirkland died in July, t911. They had a son, 
Donald Pomeroy Kirkland, born December 18, 1900, in Ithaca, N. Y. 
He was married a second time, September 12, 1912, in Seattle, Wash., 
to Miss Bessie M. MacMillan. 
Kirkland is associate professor of forestry at the University 
of Washington, Seattle, Wash., which position he has held since 
September, 1912. From July 1, 1906, to May 31, 1908, he was 
employed as forest assistant in the United States Forest Service 
and from June 1, 1908, to September 30, 1912, acted as forest 
supervisor. 
He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and of 
the Engineers’ Club of Seattle, Wash. 
He has published: The need of a vigorous policy of encouraging 
cutting on the national forests, For. Quart.; Working Plans for national 
forests of the Pacific Northwest, Proc. Soc. Am. Foresters. 
