204 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Edwards entered the United States Forest Service in August, 
1909, as forest guard, and later as forest agent on Kootenai 
National Forest, Libby, Mont., and in April, 1910, was appointed 
assistant ranger. He had charge for a time of a timber reconnais- 
sance crew on Helena National Forest and in 1911 was a member 
of a similar crew on Deerlodge National Forest, Montana. On 
October 1, 1911, he became forest assistant and since 1912 has 
been stationed on Inyo National Forest, California. 
He is a member of the Roman Catholic church and belongs to 
the American Forestry Association. 
W. Irving Gilson 
Business address, East Lansing, Mich. 
Home address, 59 North Main Street, Adrian, Mich. 
W. Irving Gilson was born February 27, 1888, at Deerfield, Mich., the 
son of William Gilson, a farmer, and Catherine E. (Howland) Gilson. 
His father’s parents were Cornelius Gilson, son of a New York farmer, 
and Esther Gilson, daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer. His mother 
was the daughter of Charles E. Howland, who studied at Cincinnati 
Medical College, formerly of New York State, and Emily Howland, 
daughter of a Pennsylvania farmer. He has a brother, Clarence Gil- 
son, and a sister, Alice Gilson. 
He received the degree of B.S. from Michigan Agricultural College in 
1910. His summers were spent in farming until 1909, after which they 
were spent in the United States Forest Service. He was registered at 
the Yale Forest School during the fall term, 1910-11. 
He is unmarried. 
Gilson served as forest assistant in the United States Forest 
Service during the summer of 1910. On January 1, 1911, he 
left the Forest School and became instructor of forestry at the 
Michigan Agricultural College, ‘this present position. He has 
spent his summers as forest assistant in the Forest Service. He 
writes: “During summer of I9II was stationed on Jemez 
National Forest, New Mexico, and in September took a trip 
through the Grand Cafion. In December, 1911, went with Sen- 
ior students to the lumber camp at Millville, Ark., and thence to 
New Orleans. Taught a course in field methods at the Forestry 
Summer School, Vanderbilt, Mich., in June, 1912.” 


