Commission. In recognition of his services one of the city parks 

 was named for him. 



His great interest in arboriculture led him to an active partici- 

 pation in the work of associations devoted to such work. He 

 was vice president of the New York State Forestry Association, 

 trustee of the Association for the Preservation of the Adiron- 

 dacks, trustee of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation 

 Society, director of the National Conservation Association and 

 member of many other societies and associations that have similar 

 interests. 



For his conspicuous services in the field of forestry and in 

 connection with the Niagara Reservation, he was given the 

 degree of doctor of laws from Bethany College in 1914 and 

 from Niagara University in 1915. 



He was elected from the fifty-first senatorial district as a dele- 

 gate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1915, and Elihu 

 Root, the chairman of the convention, selected Mr Dow as the 

 chairman of the Committee on Conservation. 



It was not alone in the field of Nature that he was active. In 

 1917 he was elected president of the Chautauqua County 

 Historical Society and, as with everything that he touched, he 

 set about to make it the best. When the law creating local 

 historians for the towns, villages and cities of the State was 

 passed, he spent days in going about through his county inter- 

 viewing trustees, supervisors and mayors, so that at the time of 

 his death Chautauqua county was the best organized from that 

 point of view of any county in the State. 



He was made the first vice president of the New York State 

 Historical Association in 1919, and according to custom would 

 have become its president in 1921. Already he was planning 

 for a joint meeting with Canadian historical societies to the end 

 that a steamboat might be chartered for a series of meetings on 

 board and a trip on the St. Lawrence river. When doubt was 

 expressed as to whether it could be done successfully he 

 remarked: "It can be done and I am going to do it.*' His 



