306 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Since graduation from the Yale Forest School Eaton has 
served as forest guard and forest assistant. He is at present 
in District 3, being located at Espanola, N. Mex, 
He is a Progressive in politics. 
Walter M. Geddes 
Home address, 90 Christopher Street, Montclair, N. J. 
Walter Mackintosh Geddes was born November 13, 1885, in Newark, 
N. J., the son of Alexander Geddes (deceased) and Susan Isabel (Baker) 
Geddes. On his father’s side he is of Scotch, and on his mother’s of 
English ancestry. His father left the University of Edinburgh when 
twenty years of age to go to Asia Minor as construction engineer for 
the MacAndrews & Forbes Company, manufacturers of licorice, and 
at the close of our Civil War he came to the United States to open an 
American agency for this company. He has one sister, Isabel Mary 
Geddes, M.D. Women’s Medical College, and one brother, William 
Lascelles Geddes. He had two other sisters, now deceased, Susan Baker 
Geddes, M.D. Cornell ’02, and Rose Geddes. 
He was a student for a year at Stevens Institute of Technology, 
Hoboken, N. J., and before entering Yale spent five years in Saskatche- 
wan, Canada, and Montana, ranching, and in traveling abroad. In 1911 
he graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, where he was 
a member of Theta Xi and of the Yale University Club. 
He was married October 13, 1912, in Denver, Colo, to Miss Rebekah 
Virginia Botsford of Denver, Colo., daughter of Edward Pottle Botsford. 
On graduation Geddes became a solicitor for Peters, Byrne & 
Company, tree surgeons of Pittsburgh, Pa. He recently resigned 
this position to go with the MacAndrews & Forbes Company. 
He writes: “I have accepted a position with the MacAndrews & 
Forbes Company, manufacturers of licorice, and former subsi- 
diary company of the American Tobacco Company. I sail in 
about three months for Asia Minor, where I shall be assigned 
to some station in Syria; probably Aleppo, about 100 miles inland 
from Alexandretta. There I shall endeavor to pick up expe- 
rience that will fit me for the buying and collection of licorice 
root for the western branch of the trade. I expect to be located 
in that part of Asia for at least three years, at the end of which 
time,—should I survive the Terrible Turk and other vermin,— 
I shall in all probability return to the States in the employ of 
the Company here. In a way, I might be called an underground 



