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damage and forestry work of all kinds. In 1912 he received the 
degree M.S.F. from the University of Michigan. 
He has written several newspaper articles. 
Raymond W. Gowdy 
Thompsonville, Conn. 
Raymond Willis Gowdy was born July 20, 1880, in Thompsonville, 
Conn., the son of Willis and Nellie (Peters) Gowdy. 
He was prepared at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and received the 
degree of Ph.B. at Yale in 1910. He attended the Forest School during 
IQIO-II. 
He is unmarried. 
Gowdy spent the winter of 1912-13 on his grapefruit farm 
at Santa Barbara, Isle of Pines, Cuba. 
James H. Hull 
Business address, Targhee National Forest, St. Anthony, Idaho 
315 South Main Street, Torrington, Conn. 
James Howard Hull was born September 20, 1881, in Southington, 
Conn., the son of Lewis C. Hull and Frances Reynolds (Hinman) Hull. 
His father is the son of Daniel Hull of Southington, Conn., and a 
descendant of Richard Hull, who settled in New Haven Colony in 1636. 
His mother’s family lived in New Haven, Conn. He has seven brothers: 
Albert W. Hull, B.A. Yale ’05 and Ph.D. ’o09, Daniel Raymond Hull, Ph.B. 
Yale ’11, Edwin L., Walter H., Caleb S., Thomas G., Yale ’13S., and 
John B. Hull. 
In 1907 he received the degree of B.A. from Yale and was registered 
in the Forest School during 1909-10. 
He is unmarried. 
Hull entered the United States Forest Service in July, 1910, 
as forest guard with headquarters on Nezperce National Forest, 
Idaho. In July, 1911, he became field assistant and forest ranger 
on Boise National Forest, Idaho, and since July, 1912, he has 
been forest assistant, being stationed at present on Targhee 
National Forest, Idaho. 
Concerning politics he writes: “I try to vote for men of 
good principles and sound judgment, but I don’t like to subscribe 
to any political creed now existing. Such creeds are seldom free 
from idiotic derisible fallacies!” He is a Mason. 


