196 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Thornton T. Munger 
Business address, Forest Service, Portland, Ore. 
Home address, 202 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn. 
Thornton Taft Munger was born October 3, 1883, in North Adams, 
Mass., the son of Rev. Theodore Thornton Munger, D.D., Yale ’51, and 
Elizabeth Kuirman (Duncan) Munger, who died in 1883. His father 
was a Congregational minister, having received the degree of D.D. from 
Harvard and Yale, and was a member of the Yale Corporation and of 
the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He is the grandson, on his 
father’s side, of Ebenezer Munger, a physician, Yale 1814, and Cynthia 
(Selden) Munger, of Connecticut, and the great-grandson of Eleazar 
May, Yale 1752. On his mother’s side he is the grandson of James H. 
Duncan, Harvard 1812, and LL.D. Brown 1861, a lawyer and member 
of Congress, and Mary (Willis) Duncan, both of Massachusetts. He 
has three sisters: Rosanna May Munger; Eleanor Duncan (Munger) 
Wells, wife of Philip P. Wells, Ph.D. ’89, of Washington, D. C.; and 
Elizabeth Willis (Munger) Adams, wife of Professor John C. Adams, 
Yale ’96, of New Haven, assistant professor of English at Yale. 
He was prepared at the New Haven High School and at the Hotchkiss 
School, and graduated from Yale College in 1905, and was active in 
Dwight Hall work. He spent the year of 1905-06 abroad, three months of 
which were devoted to study of forestry in Germany. 
He is unmarried. 
He writes: “On entering the Forest Service, July 1, 1908, 
I was assigned to the Section of Silvics and after six weeks in 
Washington I was sent to Oregon to make a study of ‘the 
encroachment of Lodgepole pine on western yellow pine on the 
east slope of the Cascades in Oregon.’ Upon the completion of © 
this study, December 1, 1908, I was assigned to the Section 
of Silvics as the chief in the newly established district office 
of the Forest Service in Portland, Ore. This position I have 
since held. My work has consisted in making a large number 
of silvical studies in the National Forests of this region and of 
field work in connection with timber sales and reconnaissance. 
A little over half my time has been spent in Portland and the 
balance in the field in various parts of Oregon and Washington.” 
Munger is a Progressive Republican. He is a member of the 
United Church (Congregational) of New Haven. He belongs 
to the Society of American Foresters, the Concatenated Order 
of Hoo-Hoo, the Irvington Tennis Club and University Club, 
both of Portland. 
