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OBITUARY— ERNEST EVERETT BOGUE. 1864-1907. 
Ernest Everett Bogue was born January 13, 1864, in Orwell, Ohio. He 
was of French Huguenot stock on his father’s side. There were nine chil- 
dren in the family, six of whom with the mother are still living. Mr. 
Bogue’s early ambition was to gain a hi'gher education, and to this end he 
constantly worked, earning most of the money with which to defray his 
expenses at school and college. He taught one term of district school; spent 
three years at New Lyme Institute, where he graduated in 1888, and in the 
fall of 1889 entered Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1894 
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and Forestry, and in 
June, 1896, he received from the same. University the degree of Master of 
Science in Entomology and Botany. 
He loved trees, plants and music, and the home surroundings and asso- 
ciations and education in the University all tended in the same direction. 
He married on March 25, 1896, Miss.Myra V. Wilcox of Columbus, Ohio, 
and went immediately to Oklahoma as head of the department of Botany 
and Entomology of the State Agricultural College, resigning in the spring of 
1900, after teaching four years, to take post graduate work at Harvard Uni- 
versity, from which institution he received the degree of Master of Arts in 
June, 1902. In September of that year he accepted the new chair of Forestery 
in Michigan Agricultural College, where his skill, originality, ingenuity and 
genial ways soon attracted a large class of students. He took great interest 
in the subject of Forestry throughout the State, visiting many of the leading 
farmers to encourage and help them in plans for the correct management of 
their wood lots, and in starting original plantations. A map of the State 
hung in his office well dotted with red spots showing the localities of these 
early efforts by farmers of Michigan. He was likewise much interested in 
plans to improve stump lands in the north part of the State, and in experi- 
menting on the wild lands of the college located in the same region. 
He started a forest nursery, a part of the plan of which was to furnish 
young trees at cost for the farmers to plant. For the beautiful home erected 
he selected a congenial spot near the papaw bushes, sloping to the bank of 
the Red Cedar, where the dam below made a delightful place for rowing for 
over a mile in extent. Pitcher plants, orchids and numerous wild plants of 
his selection occupied suitable spots between the house and river. With 
excellent judgment, he selected a nice variety of trees and planted about his 
new home, among them a fine grove of Norway Spruces, with the view of 
furnishing Christmas trees' to the neighborhood when they should attain 
suitable size. The chief charm of the location, as he righly viewed it. was 
just across the river on the farm, a virgin forest of maples, beeches, bass- 
woods, elms and others delighting in such surroundings. 
After a protracted illness, he died August 19, 1907, in the midst of a 
promising career of usefulness,- as a man, as a citizen and a teacher. [Taken 
from 10th Report, Michigrn Academy of Science, 1908, Ann Arbor]. 
