250 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Lester E. Hitchcock 
Business address, Vernal, Utah 
Forest Service Building, Ogden, Utah 
Lester Eugene Hitchcock was born September 22, 1884, in Chicago, IIL, 
the son of Horace Watson Hitchcock and Sarah Jane (Gibbons) Hitch- 
cock. His father’s family were originally Scotch-Irish people, who settled 
in the Carolinas, and his grandfather was killed during an engagement 
in the Civil War. He has one sister, Glennai Watson Hitchcock. 
He was prepared at the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) High School, worked 
one year, attended Yankton College two years, and was graduated at Coe 
College, Cedar Rapids, lowa, in 1907 with the degree of B.S. Before 
entering the Yale Forest School he taught in a high school for one 
year. 
He is unmarried. 
Hitchcock is deputy supervisor on Ashley National Forest. He 
writes: “Since leaving Yale I have been engaged chiefly in 
reconnaissance work in various parts of District 4, with head- 
quarters at Ogden, Utah, going first to the Kaibab Forest, located 
on the northern border of the Grand Canyon, the only scenery 
I have ever seen that I have never grown tired of, as there always 
seemed to be something new about it. 
“Shortly after my summer there I spent a srwcisals in the pleasant 
little town of Ogden, whence I was sent as forest assistant to the 
Sawtooth Forest, where I received my only unpleasant experience 
in the Service, a four months’ furlough. I got a chance to take 
some cattle to Seattle and so went there and spent a very rainy 
winter, getting some surveying and drafting to do, which kept 
me busy part of the time. For the last year I have done a 
variety of things, from counting sheep to surveying telephone 
lines, to say nothing of a one man reconnaissance, when I was 
my own cook, horse wrangler, packer and did a full OY. s work 
every day besides.” 
He is a member of the Congregational church. 
Crosby A. Hoar 
Business address, Meeker, Colo. 
Home address, West Acton, Mass. 
Crosby Arthur Hoar was born September 9, 1886, in West Acton, Mass., 
the son of John Sherman Hoar and Minnie Rachel (Hart) Hoar. His 


