Welles, Roger Patton.

Roger Patton Welles graduated from Yale College in 1924. He moved to Southern California shortly after graduation to improve his health, and worked briefly as an auditor for Aetna Life Insurance while living in Los Angeles. He returned to his family in Hartford, Connecticut for a few months in the spring of 1925. In June the Secretary of the Interior appointed Welles as a temporary Park Ranger in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Welles worked at Crater Lake National Park for a year, rising through the ranks to assume the position of Acting Chief Ranger before he resigned in August 1926. He returned to Connecticut to manage Rollock, Incorporated, an industrial firm located in Southport.