Cary, Austin, 1865-1936

Austin Cary was born in 1865 in East Machias, Maine. He received an A.B. degree from Bowdoin College in 1887, an A.M. degree in 1890, and an honorary Sc.D. in 1922. He also studied biology at Johns Hopkins and Princeton. He was an instructor in the Department of Geology and Biology at Bowdoin in 1887 and 1888, taught at the Yale Forest School in 1904 and 1905, and was an assistant professor of forestry at Harvard from 1905 to 1909. Cary was one of the first people to enter the new profession of forestry. He was first employed as a surveyor and investigator, working in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin. In 1898 he became a forester at the Berlin Mills Company, later the Brown Company, the first person to hold such a position in an American business. He worked for the company for six years, surveying, mapping and cruising the company lands in Maine. In 1910 he was appointed as Logging Engineer for the United States Forest Service, and his interests and influence broadened to include every forest region in the country. In 1917 he made his first trip to the South; he became increasingly interested in this region as a timber growing area. He also became interested in the naval stores industry in the South after making a trip to Spain and France in 1924 with representatives of the American Naval Stores Commission. Cary was a prolific author, publishing technical papers and articles of interest to workers in various lumber and woodworking industries. He also published five editions of his "Manual for Northern Woodsmen." Cary retired from the Forest Service in 1935, settling in Lake City, Florida. He died in 1936 while on a visit to the Forestry Department at the University of Florida.

Forester and logging engineer. Born in Maine; educated at Bowdoin College; Assistant Professor of Forestry, Harvard College, 1905-1909; Superintendent of State Parks, New York, 1909-1910; Logging Engineer, U.S. Forests Service, 1919-1935.

Forester and logging engineer.

Born in Maine; educated at Bowdoin College; Assitant Professor of Forestry, Harvard College, 1905-1909; Superintendent of State Parks, New York, 1909-1910; Logging Engineer, U.S. Forests Service, 1919-1935.