220 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Fraternity at Yale and belongs to the Order of Independent 
Americans and to Schuylkill Lodge, 138, Free and Accepted 
Masons, of Orwigsburg, Pa. 
Frederick A. Gaylord 
Business address, Conservation Commission, Albany, N. Y. 
Residence, 26 Lancaster Street, Albany, N. Y. 
69 South Cliff Street, Ansonia, Conn. 
Frederick Alan Gaylord was born June 1, 1885, in Ansonia, Conn., the 
son of Frederick Littlefield Gaylord, postmaster at Ansonia for ten years 
and the member of longest service on the Republican State Control Com- 
mittee, and Mary Emma (Peck) Gaylord. He is the grandson on his 
father’s side of Miles Allen Gaylord, and on his mother’s side is a direct 
descendant of Elihu Yale. He has one brother, Harold B. Gaylord, 
M.E. Stevens Institute ’o4. 
He was prepared at the Boardman Manual Training High School, New 
Haven, Conn., at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J., and at Dean Academy, 
Franklin, Mass. In 1908 he graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School 
at Yale, where he received honors in his Freshman and Junior years. He 
was a member of Beta Theta Pi at Stevens Institute. 
He is unmarried. 
Gaylord is state forester of New York State. He received 
this appointment December 6, 1910. He writes: “Entered the 
United States Forest Service July 1, 1909. Spent most of my 
time while in the Service on the Northern Pacific estimates and 
general reconnaissance work in western Montana, the panhandle 
of Idaho and eastern Washington. Became connected with the 
Department of Forestry at the Michigan Agricultural College, 
July 15, 1910. On December 6, 1910, I accepted a position with 
the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of Albany, N. Y. This 
commission was later legislated into the Conservation Commis- 
sion. My work in New York consisted of all kinds, from prac- 
tical to educational. In March, 1912, I received an offer to have 
charge of the Syracuse Ranger School of Syracuse University. 
Refused offer carrying increase of 900 per annum.” 
In politics he is “Independent, with strong Progressive tenden- 
cies.” He is a member of the American Society of Foresters and 
the University Club of Albany. 

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