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Hodgson entered the United States Forest Service July 1, 
1906, as forest guard. After leaving the Yale Forest School he 
was appointed forest assistant with headquarters on Shasta 
National Forest. He was then made forest supervisor of Cali- 
fornia National Forest and later assistant state forester of Cali- 
fornia. He again became forest assistant in the Service with 
headquarters on Klamath National Forest and on July 1, 1911, 
was made deputy forest supervisor of Siskiyou National Forest, 
Oregon. In January, 1913, he was transferred to Ochoco 
National Forest. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church and in politics is 
a Progressive Republican. 
Non GRADUATES 
Oliver E. Baker 
Business address, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
DUG 
Home address, 39 West Perry Street, Tiffin, Ohio 
Oliver Edwin Baker was born September 10, 1883, in Tiffin, Ohio, the 
son of Edwin Baker (deceased), a merchant, born in Yarmouth, Mass., 
and Martha (Thomas) Baker, born in Pittsfield, Vt. Some of his 
ancestors were New England Puritans. He had two half-brothers, 
Frank and Walter Baker, and a half-sister, Nelly Baker, B.A. Heidelberg 
College (Ohio), all deceased. 
In 1903 he received the degree of B.S. from Heidelberg College, Ohio, 
and in 1904 the degree of M.S., and in 1905 the degree of M.A. from 
Columbia University. While pursuing his graduate work he was a news- 
paper manager and teacher. 
He is unmarried. 
After leaving the Yale Forest School Baker did graduate work 
in the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, where he 
worked on soil survey and the history of agriculture under the 
Carnegie Foundation. On July 1, 1912, he was appointed assist- 
ant agriculturist in the office of farm management of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, his present position. He 
writes: “After graduation from college in 1903, I was engaged in 
graduate study, newspaper work and teaching for a couple of 
