14 STATE OF MICHIGAN. 



after taking a course of study iu the high schools of Kalamazoo and Grand 

 Rapids, spent some years at the Agricultural College in our State. He 

 dropped out of college education for the purpose of taking hold practically 

 of a shingle business, and for a number of years was engaged in handling 

 forest products at wholesale and retail. He organized the Michigan Re- 

 tail Lumber Association, was its first secretary, and has always retained 

 a great interest in some plan of maintaining the great industries based 

 upon the va^v products of the forest. He was for some time a member of 

 the Board of Education of Grand Rapids, and afterward did valuable 

 service as a member of the Michigan Legislature. In recent years he has 

 been identified in. a jiromiuent way with the Independent Telephone Com- 

 panies, and is now in a managerial capacity, acting for the Citizens' Tele- 

 phone Company of Grand Rapids. 



John H. Bissell, of Detroit, is a lawyer and business man, who has 

 resided for a long time in this State, and is a prominent member of the 

 American. Forestry Association. He is widely and deeply interested in 

 the responsibility of the State with reference to the future progress of 

 The forestry movement, and his statement embodies years of careful ob- 

 servation and experience in active business life, as well as careful com- 

 pilation of the most pertinent statistical facts. 



