GRADUATES CLASS OF 1909 221 

He has published: Penal labor and conservation, Am. For., Feb., 
1912; Are there too many forest schools? Am. For., June, 1912; Shade 
trees, Bull., N. Y. Conservation Com., 1912; Forestry and forest re- 
sources, Bull., N. Y. Conservation Com., Ig12. 
Belknap C. Goldsmith 
United States Forest Service, Alturas, Calif. 
Belknap Chittenden Goldsmith was born November 25, 1882, in New 
York City, the son of Jay Charlton Goldsmith, for many years editor of 
the New York Herald, and Alice (Westervelt) Goldsmith. He is the 
grandson on his father’s side of William Belknap Goldsmith and Helen 
(Hammond) Goldsmith, and on his mother’s side of Ralph Westervelt 
and Cornelia (Campbell) Westervelt. He has two brothers: Paul Gold- 
smith and Goldwin Goldsmith, who received a degree in architecture 
from Columbia University in 18096. 
He was prepared at Oakland High School, Oakland, Calif., and in 1906 
received the degree of B.S. from the University of California. 
He was married June 19, 1912, in Alturas, Calif., to Miss Marion Sarah 
Hawkes of Alturas, daughter of Albert A. Hawkes and Cora Bell 
(Warren) Hawkes. They have a son, born April 25, 1913, in Alturas, 
Calif. 
Upon graduation from the Yale Forest School Goldsmith 
entered the United States Forest Service as forest assistant. He 
is at present forest assistant on Modoc National Forest, Alturas, 
Calif. 
He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Oak- 
land, Calif., and belongs to the Society of American Foresters. 
Edgar C. Hirst - 
Concord, N. H. 
Edgar Clarkson Hirst was born August 30, 1882, in Yellow Springs, 
Ohio, the son of John Janney Hirst, a druggist (deceased), and Mary 
(Bowe) Hirst. His father was educated at Antioch College under Horace 
Mann. He is a descendant of John Hirst, a Presbyterian minister, who 
came from Yorkshire, England, to Philadelphia in 1737 and whose 
descendants married into Philadelphia Friends families. He is the grand- 
son on his mother’s side of Erastus Bowe of Rutland, Vt., a pioneer in 
northwestern Ohio, paymaster in the War of 1812 and a member of a 
small detachment which built and held Fort Stephenson against British 
and Indian attacks. 
