Records, 1883-1889.

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Records, 1883-1889.

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Correspondence of the American Forestry Congress, much of it from or to John S. Hicks. Correspondence with other officers or members of the Congress, including Charles A. Morrison, Adolph Leue, Bernhard E. Fernow, N.H. Eggleston, and F.B. Hough, and pertaining to meeting of the Congress and papers read at meetings or published by the Congress, as well as other organizational business. There is also correspondence with members of various state legislatures about forestry laws in the states, and with railroad companies in the United States about tree planting along right of ways.

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Fernow, B. E. 1851-1923.

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Morrison, Charles A.

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Eggleston, N. H.

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Hicks, John S.

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Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885

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Franklin B. Hough was born in Martinsburg, NY in 1822. He studied medicine and practiced in Somerville, NY from 1848 to 1852. He is described as a "pioneer historian of counties in New York State" and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New York in 1872 and in 1876 he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He published...

American Forestry Congress

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John S. Hicks of Roslyn, N.Y. was Treasurer of the organization. From the description of Records, 1883-1889. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155535324 ...

Leue, Adolph.

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