214 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

CLASS OF 1909 
GRADUATES HOLDING DEGREE OF M.F. 
F. F. Woods Beckman 
Finspong, Sweden 
Fredrik Ferdinand Woods Beckman was born March 26, 1886, in 
Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Ernst Johan Beckman, an editor, author 
and poet and member of the Swedish Senate, and Louise Woods (Baker) 
Beckman of Princeton, N. Y. His father has for many years been a 
member of the Swedish parliament, is a member of the Interparliamentary 
Union and its Council and Executive Committee, city counselor of Stock- 
holm and a member of the School Board. His grandfather on his father’s 
side was a bishop in the Lutheran Swedish (State) Church and professor 
at the University of Upsala, and his grandmother was daughter of a 
professor at Upsala. On his mother’s side he is the grandson of I. 
Woods Baker, a chemical civil engineer of the United States Coast 
Survey, and Sarah S. Tuthill of New Haven, Conn., an authoress and 
daughter of Cornelius L. Tuthill and Loisa C. Hughins. He has six 
brothers and sisters: Anna Sturge of London, England; Albert 
Woods Beckman of Altoona, Pa.; John Woods Beckman, a graduate 
of the Royal Technical Institute of Stockholm and civil engineer at 
Niagara Falls; Loulette Harding of London, England; Astri Woods 
Beckman of Djursholm, Sweden; and Robert Woods Beckman, a student 
at the University of London, England. 
He was prepared at school in Djursholm and graduated at Stockholms 
hégre Reallaroverk, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1905. Before entering the 
Yale Forest School he traveled extensively: in 1900 in Norway, I90I 
in England and Portugal, 1903 in England, 1905 in Norway, Germany, 
Austria, Hungary and Italy, 1906 in Germany, Switzerland and France, 
1907 in Germany, England and the United States. 
He was married October 19, 1910, in Rheydt, Germany, to Miss Frieda 
Dilthey of Rheydt, Rheinland, Prussia, daughter of Gustav Dilthey and 
Clara (Fischer) Dilthey. They have a son, Gunnar Ernst Gustav 
Dilthey Woods Beckman, born November 26, 1911, in Finspong, Sweden. 
Beckman is assistant forester for the firm Aktiebolaget 
Finspong Styckebruk of Finspong, Sweden, which position he 
has held since July 24, 1911. Previous to this he was assistant 
to the forester of the ‘““Norrlandsbanken” in Stockholm, where his 
work consisted of estimating, mapping and making working plans. 
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