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1804 to 1866. Many illustrious citizens of the United States have sat 

 beneath this tree in informal meetings of the senior classes — Senators, 

 Cabinet officers. Governors, even President Chester A. Arthur, and 

 scientists like the agriculturist. Seaman A. Knapp, and Franklin B. 

 Hough, "father of American forestry.'" 



NOBTH CAROLINA 



New Garden Oak (Quaker settlement of Xew Garden) on the campus 

 of Guilford College, near Greensboro the first coeducational college 

 of the South. (See also Trees associated with religion, p. 53.) 



Davie Poplar (tuliptree). Orange County, on the campus of the 

 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Under this tree the 

 commissioners tied their horses when selecting a site for the university. 



McGuffy Elms, on the campus of Ohio University, at Athens, 

 planted by William McGuffy, president of the institution and author 

 of McGuffy Readers. Fifteen of the forty-eight trees planted were 

 still standing in 1931: and were about 90 years old. 



Oberlin Elm. on a corner of the Oberlin College campus. Oberlin. 

 In its shade the first building of Oberlin College was erected. This 

 was the first American college to admit women on an equality with 

 men. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Historic White Oak at King of Prussia, dedicated to Henry Sturgis 

 Drinker for his services in forestry by the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 

 ciation (7-5), August 19. 1933. is said to have been standing when the 

 founder of the Commonwealth. William Penn. was born (1644). 

 Lehigh University took part in dedication. 



VIRGINIA 



Cedars of Lebanon, from the historic Lebanon Mountains in Syria, 

 planted in Arlington Cemetery, a gift to the United States from the 

 American L^niveivity of Beirut. Syria, in appreciation of aid extended 

 by this country through the Xear East Relief. 



Emancipation Oak. on the grounds of Hampton Institute in Eliza- 

 beth City County. The first school for "contrabands" was held under 

 it in pleasant weather. 



Abingdon Smoketree. near the main portico of Martha Washington 

 College. Abingdon. Tradition has it that William Campbell Preston 

 brought this tree with him from Xapoleoirs grave. 



V. M. I. Guard Tree (hickory). Lexington. Reported to have been 

 the only tree standing on the grounds of Virginia Military Institute 

 when it was founded in 1839. Guard tents were pitched under this 

 tree in summer. 



William and Mary Live Oak. southeast corner of the campus of 

 William and Mary College, Williamsburg. Styled. "Old Monarch of 

 Middle Plantation.'" 



