202 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Hubert C. Williams 
Business address, McCall, Idaho 
Home address, Lakeville, Conn. 
Hubert Coffing Williams was born August 22, 1884, in Lakeville, Conn., 
the son of Hubert Williams and Claire Kingman (Coffing) Williams. 
His father held the positions of state representative, president of the 
State Fish and Game Commission, postmaster, president of the Litchfield 
County University Club and president of the County Bar Association. 
He has one sister, Margaret Holly Williams. 
He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1906, where he 
was a member of Delta Phi. 
He is unmarried. 
Williams is deputy supervisor in the Idaho National Forest. 
From July, 1908, to July, 1910, he was in the employ of the 
Goodman Lumber Company, ‘Goodman, Wis. While in this 
position he was first postmaster of Goodman, Wis. “On May 
8, 1911,” he writes, “left home for Ogden, Utah, with a letter 
from the district forester appointing me forest agent. Upon my 
arrival at McCall was informed that my position was forest 
guard. I was soon made temporary forest assistant and am now 
forest assistant. June 24, 1911, sent on foot by Supervisor J. E. 
Rothery to Copenhaver Ranger Station to secure Walter Gackel’s 
(ranger) oath of office. Distance forty miles over about ten — 
miles of crusted snow that hid the trail blazes for long stretches 
on the summits. Streams were all full, making occasional 
long detours necessary to find foot logs. Got into one trap line, 
mistaking blazes for the trail blazes, never having been over the 
route before. Left McCall at 9:30 a. M. on the 24th and had 
oath of office in the supervisor’s office in McCall at 8 o’clock, 
June 25th. 
“Mixed it up with a family of bears—an old she and two cubs 
on July 26, 1912, while on timber reconnaissance. Treed the 
cubs and went between them and ‘the Mrs.’ As she came back 
shot her with a Luger pistol (.30 cal.) and then got one of the 
cubs.” 
Concerning his politics, Williams writes: “Not identified with 
any party, voting for the man whom I consider best qualified 
to fill the office for which he is candidate.” 
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