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He was prepared at the public schools in West Swanzey, N. H., and 
at the Keene High School, Keene, N. H. In 1908 he graduated from 
Yale College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and recipient 
of a high oration Junior appointment. He was also a member of Alpha 
Sigma Phi, of the Hispanic Club, and in 1907 took the part of El Doctor 
in “El Doctor y El Enfermo.” 
He was married January 15, 1913, in Newark, N. J., to Miss Hazel 
Charlestine Ladd of Newark, N. J., daughter of Daniel A. Ladd and 
Emma (Staehle) Ladd. 
Sparhawk is forest assistant in the United States Forest Ser- 
vice with headquarters at Emmett, Idaho. He entered the Service 
in July, 1910, and since then has been stationed at various times 
as forest assistant, in Salmon National Forest, Idaho, the Sevier 
National Forest, Utah, and the Payette National Forest, Idaho. 
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Irving G. Stetson 
Business address, 180 Exchange Street, Bangor, Maine 
Residence, 208 French Street, Bangor, Maine 
Irving Gay Stetson was born November 23, 1885, in Bangor, Maine, 
the son of Isaiah Kidder Stetson, Yale ’79 S., and Clara Cooper (Sawyer) 
Stetson. His father is president of the First National Bank, Bangor, 
an ex-treasurer of the University of Maine, has served in both sections 
of the State Legislature and as speaker of the House, and on the staffs 
of two governors. He is the son of George Stetson and of Adeline 
(Hamlin) Stetson, and a descendant in the eighth generation of Robert 
Cornet Stetson, of Plymouth Colony. His mother is the daughter of 
Frederick A. Sawyer, senator from South Carolina after the Civil War, 
and a direct descendant of Roger Conant of Massachusetts. He has 
one sister, Ruth Wolcott (Stetson) Beach. 
He was prepared at Milton Academy (1898-99) and at Phillips Acad- 
emy, Andover, Mass. (1899-03), and received the degree of BA. in 
1907 at Harvard, where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. 
He is unmarried. 
Upon graduation Stetson became a member of the firm of 
Stetson & Alpaugh, lumbermen and foresters, and has been 
engaged in lumbering in spruce and pine and in general forestry 
work. The name of the firm has since been changed to I. G. 
Stetson & Company. In 1911 he was appointed a director of the 
Penobscot Log Driving Company and a director of the First 
National Bank of Bangor, Maine. 
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