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Old Pringle Sycamore, which stands at the mouth of Turkey Rim 

 on the Buckhannon River, a few miles below the little town of 

 Buckhannon in what is now Upshur County, is the "grandchild" of 

 a tree which served as a home for the first white settlers in the trans- 

 Allegheny region in what is now West Virginia. As early as 1764 

 Samuel and John Pringle, two brothers, penetrated the unbroken 

 wilderness and lived for 3 years in the hollow of the great old tree. 

 The cavity measured 12 feet across, so they were not crowded. The 

 stump stood until 1850, and the second Pringle tree, which sprang 

 from the roots of the first, was carried away by a flood in 1880. 

 The present tree is a sprout from the roots of the second, and in its 

 cavity three persons could easily find shelter (77, p. Jf.16). 



WISCONSIN 



Fort Howard Elm occupies the site of the first permanent fortifica- 

 tion in Wisconsin and for 200 years has been associated with the 

 history of the region owned in turn by France, Great Britain, and 

 the United States. 



TREES ASSOCIATED DIRECTLY WITH EDUCATORS OR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 



ALABAMA 



Gorgas Oak, campus of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. 

 This is a pin oak named for Gen. William Crawford Gorgas, Ameri- 

 can Army surgeon, born at Mobile, Ala., under whose sanitary 

 measures yellow fever has been eradicated from tropical America. 



CALIFORNIA 



Hilgard Chestnut, College of Agriculture, University of California, 

 Berkeley. Named for E. W. Hilgard, first dean of the college and 

 one of the pioneers of agricultural education in the United States. 

 The Hilgard Chestnut is of a European species (Oastanea sativa). 



Henry S. Graves Redwood Grove, named in honor of Henry Solon 

 Graves, forester, educator, and administrator. He succeeded Gifford 

 Pinchot as chief forester of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. This grove is 10 miles south of Crescent City. 



CONNECTICUT 



Calhoun Elm, Litchfield. (See Trees intimately associated with 

 other famous people, p. 11.) 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Lombardy Poplar, on Massachusetts Avenue near Eighteenth 

 Street, NW., memorial to Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt, killed during the World War. This tree was planted 

 in his memory by the students of the Force School on Massachusetts 

 Avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets, NW., which 

 he attended. 



KANSAS 



Cypress, "The Tree That Would Not Die," planted by Father 

 Boniface, Kansas pioneer, monk, professor, and naturalist, on the 

 slope of a ravine on the campus of St. Benedict's College, at Atchison. 



