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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1909 215 

In 1909 he traveled in Germany, and in 1910 in Germany, Austria 
and Italy. 
He is a member of the Swedish State Church and in politics 
is a Liberal and a Prohibitionist. He has served in the. Swedish 
Field Artillery, Svea artilleri-regemente. He is a member of the 
Liberal Union of Sweden, the Local Liberal Union, the Swedish 
Forestry Association, the Forestry Association of Sddermanland 
och Oestergétland, the Swedish Touring Club, the National 
Society against Emigration, and the Swedish “Men’s League for 
Woman’s Suffrage.” At Yale he was a member of Sigma Xi. 
Frederick H. Billard 
Business address, Berlin, N. H. 
Home address, Meriden, Conn. 
Frederick Howell Billard was born October 18, 1873, in Meriden, Conn., 
the son of John Leander Billard, a coal merchant and financier, and 
Harriet Yale (Merriman) Billard. He had two brothers and one sister: 
H. M. Billard, Walter S. Billard, Yale ’93S., and Mary Billard, all 
deceased. 
He was prepared at St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H., and graduated 
from Yale in 1806, where he was a member of the Academic Freshman 
Crew in the fall of 1892, of the Sophomore Fall and Spring crews and 
of the Junior Fall Crew. 
He is unmarried. 
Billard is secretary, treasurer and forester of the New Hamp- 
shire Timberland Owners’ Association, which position he has 
held since January 1, 1911. Before entering the Forest School 
he was employed for a few years in Chicago by Swift & Com- 
pany, the packers, after which he returned to Meriden and was 
a clerk for Lyon & Billard, coal and lumber dealers. 
John M. Briscoe 
Business address, Orono, Maine 
Home address, The Colonial, Bangor, Maine 
John Manvers Briscoe was born July 22, 1878, in Pottsville, Pa., the 
son of Sidney Bernard Briscoe, director of the Safe Deposit Bank of 
Pottsville, Pa., and receiver of the Pottsville Steel Company, and Sarah 
(Loeser) Briscoe. On his father’s side he is the grandson of Robert 
