MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
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ERNEST EVERETT BOGUE. 
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 
children in the family, six of whom with the mother are still living. Mr. 
Bogue’s early ambition was to gain a higher education, and to this end he 
constantly worked, earning most of the money with which to defray his ex- 
penses 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, 1S96, 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 
University, 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 
Forestry 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 the stump lands in the north part of 
the State, and in experimenting 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 
the 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 rightly viewed it, was just across the river on the farm, a virgin 
forest of maples, beeches, basswoods, elms and others delighting in such 
surroundings. 
He was a man of deep religious convictions; but his creed was formulated 
in acts of Christian living rather than in words of belief. He was long the 
superintendent of the Sunday school near the college. 
After a protracted illness, he died August 19, 1907, as we might say in the 
midst of a promising career of usefulness, as a man, a citizen, and a teacher. 
W. J. Beal. 
