188 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

H. Earl French 
Halsey, Neb. 
Hiram Earl French was born June 24, 1883, in Humboldt, Iowa, the 
son of Hiram A. French and Jane Eliza (McCollough) French. He has 
one brother, Elmer C. French, and two sisters: Nellie E. French and 
Jennie B. French. 
He was prepared at Humboldt (Iowa) High School and received the 
degree of B.S. from the State University of Iowa in 1906, — 
He was married November 2, 1911, in Kenosha, Wis., to Miss Janet 
Esther Hewitt of Livermore, Iowa, daughter of Amos A. Hewitt and 
Eliza Hewitt. 
French entered the United States Forest Service on July 1, 
1908. He is now supervisor of the Nebraska National Forest 
with headquarters at Halsey, Neb. 
He is a Free and Accepted Mason. 
Jesse R. Hall 
Business address, Yreka, Siskiyou County, Calif. 
Residence, Bostonia, San Diego County, Calif. 
Jesse Rexford Hall was born September 12, 1882, in Blendon, Mich., 
the son of Jesse Phillips Rexford Hall, a farmer and formerly superin- 
tendent of schools in Blendon County, Mich., and Charlotte (Abbott) 
Hall. He has four brothers: W. -D. Hall, engaged in contracting and 
building; Julian D. Hall, a farmer; Samuel C. Hall, a business man 
and attorney at law in Los Angeles, Calif.; and Arthur Nelson Hall, 
B.S. University of California ’07, an electrician. He also has two sisters: 
Marie E. Hall, a normal school teacher, and Helen Hall, a domestic 
science teacher. Another brother, Burdette C. Hall, and two sisters, 
Rosa and Mary Hall, are deceased. ’ 
He was prepared at the El Cajon Union High School, California, and 
in 1905 received the degree of B.S. from the University of California. 
He was married October 23, 1911, in Bostonia, San Diego County, 
Calif., to Miss Olive Corinne Somers of Santee, Calif., daughter of W. 
H. Somers and Sarah Somers. 
Hall is deputy forest supervisor in the United States Forest 
Service with headquarters in Klamath National Forest, Cali- 
fornia, which position he has held since January 1, 1910. Pre- 
vious to this he was forest assistant in Plumas National Forest, 
California. 

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