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cultural College, Amherst, Mass., and September 1, 1912, he was 
appointed professor of forest engineering at the New York State 
College of Forestry, Syracuse University, N. Y., his present posi- 
tion. He spent the summer of 1912 studying forestry practice in 
Germany, France and Switzerland. Early in the year 1913 he 
went on a lecture tour in the interests of forestry through the 
counties of Ontario, Yates and Wayne, New York State. In 
this series of talks he discussed the possibilities of reforesting the 
idle lands of the state, the forest conditions of the state in the 
past and the present, the possibilities of improving the farm wood- 
lot and the utilization of waste portions of the farm by the 
planting of forest trees. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Society 
of American Foresters. He is Secretary of the Class of 1909, 
Yale Forest School. 
He has published: Report on highlands of Hudson Reservation, N. Y. 
Forest, Fish and Game Rep., 1909, and Forest conditions of Warren 
County, N. Y. Forest, Fish and Game Rep., 1910. 
_ William B. Osborne, Jr. 
Business address, 503 Beck Building, Portland, Ore. 
Residence, 724 East Main Street, Portland, Ore. 
William B. Osborne, Jr., was born November 25, 1884, in Rochester, 
N. Y., the son of William B. Osborne and Laura Virginia (McDonnald) 
Osborne. He is the grandson on his father’s side of David H. Osborne 
and Lavinia (Bushnell) Osborne, and on his mother’s side of Angus 
McDonnald and Virginia (Dibble) McDonnald. He has a brother, D. 
Henry Osborne, B.A. Williams ’05 and B.S. Union ’07, and two sisters: 
Elizabeth McDonnald Osborne, B.A. Mount Holyoke ’12, and Ruth 
McDonnald Osborne. 
He was prepared at the Victor High School, Victor, N. Y., and in 
1907 received the degree of B.A. from Williams, where he was a 
member of Phi Sigma Kappa. 
He was married June 21, 1909, in Canandaigua, N. Y., to Miss Lura 
Esther Cooley of Canandaigua, N. Y., daughter of A. S. Cooley and 
Harriet Reed Cooley. 
Osborne is forest assistant in the United States Forest Service 
with headquarters in the Oregon National Forest, which position 
he has held since July 1, 1909. He writes: “Since leaving Yale 

