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of the Central Leather Company of New York City, and Florence 
(Moore) Childs, daughter of G. V. Moore. His paternal grandparents 
were Nial Townley Childs and Marilla (Weston) ‘Childs. 
He was prepared at the Ridgway public schools and at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, Mass., and in 1909 graduated from Yale College. He 
entered Yale with 1908S., but joined 1909 at the beginning of Sophomore 
year. He was a member of the 1908S. Class Crew, of the Freshman 
Union and the Yale Union, and received a third TenEy¢k prize in the 
Junior Exhibition. His society was Psi Upsilon. In 1903 he spent six 
weeks with the Forest Service working on the sand dune problem in 
Michigan. He traveled for six months in Europe in 1903. During the 
summer of 1907 he traveled by canoe through the Canadian National 
Park in northern Ontario. He spent the summer of 1908 in the 
Adirondack forests. 
He was married June 10, 1912, in San Francisco, Calif., to Miss Hazel 
Irene Moise of San Francisco, Calif., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip 
H. Moise. 
Childs is forest assistant in the United States Forest Service 
with headquarters at Bakersfield, Calif. He entered the Service 
July 1, 1911. He writes: “Traveled through Yellowstone 
National Park in the summer of 1910. Spent two months in the 
Coast and Cascade forests of Washington and Oregon making 
studies in western hemlock in 1910. Visited the Grand Canyon 
of Arizona in 1911 and spent two months traveling by horseback 
on main Sierra divide of Kern and Sequoia National forests col- 
lecting herbarium specimens and making a silvical description of 
the former forest.” 
He is a Progressive in politics. He is a member of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal church. He belongs to the League of American 
Sportsmen and the American Forestry Association. 
Walter J. Damtoft 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, 98 Beechwood Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Walter Julius Damtoft was born November 11, 1890, in Southport, 
Conn., the son of Kund Julius Damtoft and Dagmar Elizabeth (Jacobi) 
Damtoft. He is of Danish descent. He has one brother, Frank V. 
Damtoft. ; 
He was prepared at the Bridgeport High School and in 1910 graduated 
from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. 
He is unmarried. 
