
GRADUATES CLASS OF 1912 303 

Victor A. Beede 
Business address, Care Forest Service, Pike National Forest, Denver, 
Colo. 
425 Temple Street, New Haven, Conn. 
Victor Augustus Beede was born December 9, 1886, in East Braintree, 
Mass., the son of Frank Herbert Beede, Yale ’83, superintendent of 
public schools, New, Haven, Conn., and Caroline May (Coan) Beede. 
On his father’s side he is of Welsh, and on his mother’s of English 
ancestry. He has one sister, Faustina Knowlton Beede. 
He was prepared at the New Haven High School and at Hopkins 
Grammar School, New Haven, and served one winter in Porto Rico as 
apprentice in the Red “D” steamship office. In 1910 he graduated from 
Yale College, where he was a member of Zeta Psi. 
He was married June 26, 1912, in Woodmont, Conn., to Miss Ella 
Small of New Haven, Conn., daughter of Charles Small and Adeline 
(Kiefer) Small. 
For several months after graduation Beede traveled in Europe 
and in the late fall of 1912 became forester and assistant secretary 
for the Massachusetts Forestry Association. He is now in the 
Government Service, being stationed on the Pike National Forest, 
Denver, Colo. 
He is Secretary of the Class of 1912, Yale Forest School. 
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Henry J. Bothfeld 
450 Ovington Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Henry Julius Bothfeld was born August 30, 1886, in Bay Ridge, N. Y., 
the son of F. Otto Bothfeld, who is in the commission business in New 
York City, and Clara (Heiniglse) Bothfeld. He has a brother and a 
sister: Rudolf Otto Bothfeld and Anna M. M. Bothfeld. 
He was prepared at the Polytechnic Preparatory School, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and spent four years at the Connecticut Agricultural College, 
receiving the degree of B.S. in 1910. 
He is unmarried. 
From November, 1912, to January, 1913, Bothfeld completed 
the field work for a working plan of the lands of the New Haven 
Water Company under the management of the Forest School. A 
bulletin on this work is to be issued shortly. 
