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terms, and Martha Bell (Turner) Patton. He is of Scotch and Scotch- 
Irish ancestry. He has a sister, Josie Buel Patton. 
He attended grammar school in Sewanee, Tenn., the Biltmore Forest 
School and the University of North Carolina, where he was a member 
of Beta Theta Pi. For two years before entering the Yale Forest 
School he was employed in the United States Forest Service as student 
assistant. 
He is unmarried. 
Patton has been manager of the Parker & Patton Apple 
Orchards, Asheville, N. C., since November 1, 1911. He was in 
the employ of the United States Forest Service as forest assistant 
from July, 1908, to December, 1909, and from January, I9gI0, 
to September, 1911, as deputy forest supervisor. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church. 
Rutledge Parker 
Business address, Missoula National Forest, Missoula, Mont. 
Residence, 501 Stephens Avenue, Missoula, Mont. 
Rutledge Parker was born September 19, 1877, in Georgetown County, 
S. C., the son of Rutledge Parker and Charlotte Meade (Huger) Parker. 
He is the grandson of Dr. Francis S. Parker and Mary (Taylor) Parker. 
He has a brother, Dr. John E. Parker, B.S. Union College ’or and M.D. 
Yale ’o6, and two sisters: Mrs. John Cheston Morris and Mariamnie 
Meade Parker. 
He graduated from the Porter Military Academy of Charleston, S. C., 
in 1897 and from that time until January, 1898, worked in the cotton 
business in Charleston. From 1898 to 1900 he planted rice near George- 
town, S. C., and from 1900 to 1905 was employed by the Atlantic Coast 
Lumber Company. 
He was married July 25, 1910, in Elk Horn Ranch, Granite County, 
Mont., to Miss Albertina Brown of Philipsburg, Mont., daughter of 
Frank Dean Brown and Anna Elizabeth (Lenz) Brown. 
Parker writes: “I entered the Yale Forest School July 5, 
1905, and remained until the following spring, taking the Junior 
course. I spent the summer vacation of 1906 in the mountains 
of North Carolina near Asheville recuperating from the stren- 
uous duties at the School. My health was not particularly good 
at that time so thought it unwise to return to the School the fol- 
lowing year. Through the influence and sincere efforts of Mr. 
Henry S. Graves I received an appointment as forest guard on 
