318 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

In August, 1912, Taylor entered the United States Forest. Ser- 
vice as forest assistant with headquarters at Quincy, Calif. From 
January until June, 1913, he was employed by the Pennsylvania 
Chestnut Blight Commission. He then reéntered the Service, 
at present being stationed at Pine Mountain, Ga. 
Roscoe B. Weaver 
Business address, 913% Florida Avenue, Tampa, Fla. 
Home address, Colfax, Iowa 
Roscoe Blaine Weaver was born October 9, 1880, in Colfax, Iowa, the 
son of Jacob Forester Weaver (deceased), who served in the Civil 
War as first lieutenant of the 5th Iowa Infantry and Cavalry, and was 
postmaster of Colfax for two years, and Adella Victoria (West) 
Weaver, daughter of Joseph Taylor West and Susanna Seward (Hahn) 
West. He has one sister, Di Etta Weaver. 
He was prepared at Colfax High School and received the degree of 
B.S. at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, in 1905. He was a member 
of Alpha Tau Omega. He then taught school and coached the Capital 
High School Football Team, Des Moines, lowa, for four months. In 
1906 he went to the Philippine Islands as a third lieutenant in the con- 
stabulary, served three years and a half, rising to the rank of first 
lieutenant. Before entering the Yale Forest School he took a year’s 
graduate work at Simpson College. 
He is unmarried. 
Since July, 1912, Weaver has been with the Aripeka Saw Mills, 
Tampa, Fla. His work consists chiefly in estimating the com- 
pany’s timber and checking up the saw mills and turpentine 
users on the company’s land. 
He is a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church, is a Mason, and while at Yale was a member of 
the Yale Masonic Club, Acacia Fraternity. 
Edward J. Yeomans 
Business address, Halstead, Kans. 
Edward John Yeomans was born November 11, 1887, in Halstead, 
Kans., the son of Charles H. Yeomans and Mary L. (Razee) Yeomans. 
He is of English and French ancestry. He has three sisters and a 
brother: Blanch H. (Yeomans) McBurney; Chauncy Austin Yeomans, 


