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He was prepared at Yellow Springs High School and at the Prepara- 
tory School of Antioch College. In 1907 he received the degree of B.A. 
from Ohio State University, where he was a member of Delta Upsilon. 
He is unmarried. 
Since July 1, 1909, Hirst has held the position of state forester 
of New Hampshire. 
He is a member of the Unitarian church. Concerning politics 
he writes: “Have always been a Republican. Believe in progres- 
sive principles and increasing the power of the national govern- 
ment.” At Yale he was a member of Sigma Xi. He is a Blue 
Lodge Mason. 
Oswald D. Ingall 
99 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, N. J. 
Oswald Drew Ingall was born September 10, 1884, in Sault Sainte 
Marie, Ontario, Canada, the son of Elfric Drew Ingall, for thirty years 
a geologist in the Canadian Geological Survey, and Blanche (Plummer) 
Ingall. On his father’s side he is the great-grandson of W. T. F. M. 
Ingall of Greenhithe, Kent, England, and Joan Drew of Ireland. On 
his mother’s side he is of English ancestry. He has two half brothers 
and two half sisters. 
He was prepared at the Ottawa Collegiate Institute and Montclair 
High School and in 1903 entered Cornell University in the forestry 
course. When the Forest School was discontinued, he entered the 
College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell and received the degree of 
‘B.A. in 1907. At college he was a member of Bandhu. 
He is unmarried. 
From 1909 to 1911 Ingall was forest agent in the United States 
Forest Service. He then became forest assistant and later 
entered the British Columbia Forest Service under H. R. 
MacMillan of the Class of 1908. He has recently left the Cana- 
dian Service and is with relatives in Montclair, N. J. He expects 
to remain in the East. He writes: “Worked on third Kentucky 
report during the summer of 1909, on the Illinois report in the 
winter and spring of 1910 and on the Pittsburgh Flood Com- 
mission Report in the winter of 1910. In the spring of I911 
went on a trip to California. Worked on examination of land in 
Georgia in the spring of 1911, in Nantahala Area in the summer 
and fall of 1912.” 
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