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father has been professor of English at Tufts, Vanderbilt, Syracuse and 
Swarthmore, was at one time on the New York State Board of Regents 
and is the author of “Growth of the Idylls of the King,” ete. On his 
* father’s side he is of Welsh ancestry and is the grandson on his mother’s 
side of J. B. Grinnell of Vermont and Julia Ann (Chapin) Grinnell 
of Massachusetts. He has three brothers: Grinnell Jones, B.S. Van- 
derbilt University ’03, M.S. ’o05, M.A. Harvard ’o5, and Ph.D, ’08; Eliot 
Jones, B.A. Vanderbilt ’06, and M.A. Harvard ’08; and Percival Jones, 
and two sisters: Elaine Jones, who graduated from Tufts College, and 
Beatrice Jones. 
He was prepared at Grinnell College Academy, Iowa, and Syracuse 
High School, Syracuse, N. Y., and in 1904 received the degree of B.A. 
from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of Sigma Nu. 
He did post-graduate work at Vanderbilt two years, with a fellowship 
in biology one year, and afterward worked for a railroad a year, 
surveying, etc. 
He was married December 26, 1912, in North Conway, N. H., to Miss 
Alice Morrison of North Conway, N. H., daughter of William Hugh 
Morrison, and Linnie Keene Morrison. 
Upon graduation from the Yale Forest School Jones entered. 
the United States Forest Service, where he was employed until 
June 19, 1910, as forest assistant with headquarters principally in 
Gallatin and Lolo National forests in Montana and in Kaniksu 
in Washington. He was then appointed forest assistant for the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which position he held until 
January 1, 1911. From this time until September 15, 1911, he 
traveled in the interests of his father in Florida, New England 
and western Canada. He then took up farming in Massachusetts, 
but left this on April 15, 1912, to accept a position as field assistant 
with the New Hampshire State Forestry Commission. On 
August I, 1912, he was appointed assistant state forester of 
Maryland, his present position. 
In politics he is a Progressive Democrat. 
Joseph C. Kircher 
United States Forest Service, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 
Joseph Casimir Kircher was born November 15, 1884, in Bellville, Til. 
the son of Henry A. Kircher, a hardware merchant of the firm of 
Kircher & Son, and Bertha (Engelmann) Kircher (deceased). He is 
of German descent. He has two brothers: Harry B. Kircher, B.S. 
