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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1908 187 

John A. Ferguson 
Business address, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. 
John Arden Ferguson was born December 23, 1873, in Canandaigua, 
N. Y., the son of Harrison Boggerly Ferguson, lieutenant in the Civil War 
and county treasurer, and Ella Clara (Woder) Ferguson. On his 
father’s side he is of Scotch ancestry. He has two sisters: Clara Louise 
(Ferguson) Henson, a graduate of Albany Normal School, and Julia 
May Ferguson; and one brother, Dr. Harry N. Ferguson, D.D.S. 
Philadelphia Dental College. 
He was prepared at Canandaigua Academy, N. Y. In 1806 he received 
the degree of B.A. from Hamilton College and in 1903 the degree of 
M.A. At college he was a member of Chi Psi and Delta Theta Sigma. 
Before entering the Yale Forest School he taught at the Brooklyn Poly- 
technic Institute and at Rutgers Preparatory School, New Brunswick, 
N. J. 
He was married September 14, 1911, in Allentown, Pa., to Miss Susan 
Kathryn Becker of Allentown, daughter of William Becker. 
After graduation from the Yale Forest School Ferguson 
became forest assistant in the United States Forest Service with 
headquarters in the Boise National Forest. In the same year 
he was appointed instructor in the forestry department of the 
Pennsylvania State College and in 1909 was made assistant 
professor. During 1909-10 he was in charge of the department. 
In the summer of 1910-11 he acted as instructor in the Yale 
Forestry Camp, and in 1911 he founded the department of for- 
estry at the University of Missouri, himself holding the position 
of professor. Since January, 1913, he has been director of the 
College of Forestry at Pennsylvania State College. 
In politics he is a Republican (independent and progressive). 
He is a member of the American Forestry Association, the 
Conservation Association, the National Geographic Society, the 
Pennsylvania and Canadian Forestry associations, the Society 
of American Foresters, the Society of Eastern Foresters and 
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He 
is a Mason. In 1911-12 he was a delegate to the Conservation 
Congress and in 1912 delivered an sais ice before the State 
Conservation Congress. 
He has published: How to prolong the life of fence posts, Circ. 51, 
Mo. Agric. Exp. Sta.; Growing a woodlot from seed, Circ. 52, Mo. Agric. 
Exp. Sta. He made an address on Forest Leaves before the Pennsylvania 
Forestry Association, July, 1900. 
