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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PENNSYLVANIA STATE OFFICERS AND UNITED STATES SENATORS

GOVERNOR.

GIFFORD PINCHOT was born August 11, 1865, the son of James W. and Mary (Eno) Pinchot. The first member of his family in Pennsylvania, Francis Joseph Smith, came from Belgium with a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, and after serving as Major in the Revolutionary War, settled in the Delaware Valley at Shawnee, now in Monroe County. His great grandfather, Constantine Pinchot, and his grandfather, C. C. D. Pinchot, settled in Milford in 1816. Since that time the Pinchot family has belonged to Pike County. Mr. Pinchot's father was born in Milford and built the present Pinchot home there in 1886.

Commission on Public Lands, appointed 1903; Commission on Department Methods, appointed 1905; Inland Waterways Commission, appointed 1907; Commission on Country Life, appointed 1908; Chairman of National Conservation Commission, appointed 1908; Chairman of Joint Committee on Conservation, appointed by the first conference of Governors at Washington, December, 1908.

He was nominated by the Republican party for the office of Governor on May 16, 1922, and elected on November 7, following.

Mr. Pinchot is a member of the National Farmers' Union and the Pennsylvania State Grange, and a member of the executive comZzations and the Pennsylvania Y. M. C. A. He is a member of the Engineers' Club, Harrisburg, and of the University and City Clubs, Philadelphia.

Mr. Pinchot received his preparatory education at the Philips Exeter Academy, and was gradu-mittees of the National Board of Farm Organiated from Yale University in 1889. He studied forestry in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria, and in January, 1892, inaugurated the first example in the United States of practical forest management on a large scale at Biltmore, N. C. He was the first American to make forestry his profession.

In 1898 he took charge of the Government forest work and was Forester and Chief of the Division, afterward the Bureau, of Forestry, and then of the United States Forest Service, from 1898 to 1910; Professor of Forestry at Yale University since 1903; Commissioner of Forestry of Pennsylvania from March 10, 1920 to April 13, 1922; member of United States Food Administration 1917.

He inspected the forests of the Philippine Islands in 1902 and recommended a forest policy for them. Member of Committee on Organization of Government Scientific Work, appointed by President Roosevelt, March, 1903;

He received the following college degrees: Yale, Honorary M.A., 1901 and Princeton, 1904; Sc.D., Michigan Agricultural College, 1907; LL.D., McGill University, 1909, Pennsylvania Military College, 1923, and Yale University, 1925.

Mr. Pinchot is the author of the following books: "The White Pine" (with H. S. Graves), 1896; "The Adirondack Spruce," 1898; "A Primer of Forestry," 1899; "The Fight for Conservation," 1909; "The Country Church" (with C. O. Gill), 1913; ""The Training of a Forester, 1914; "Six Thousand Country Churches" (with C. O. Gill), 1919.

He is an Episcopalian. He married, in 1914, Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce, daughter of General Lloyd S. Bryce, of New York. They have one child, Gifford Bryce Pinchot.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

DAVID JONES DAVIS, Scranton, Lackawanna County, was born in Knightsville, Clay County, Indiana.

He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1890, and was admitted to the Bar at Scranton, the same year. He served as City Solicitor of Scranton, 1903 to 1918; served continuously in the Pennsylvania National Guard since 1893, including service in the Spanish

War, Mexican Border and A. E. F. He was State Commander of the American Legion 19201921. He is now engaged in the practice of law, with offices at 605-606 Mears Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

He was nominated by the Republican party for the office of Lieutenant Governor, May 16, 1922, elected the following November, and took his oath of office on January 16, 1923.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

GEORGE W. WOODRUFF was born February | sistant Attorney General for the Department 22, 1864, at Dimock, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in common district schools, Mansfield State Normal School, Yale University (B.A.), and University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.B.). He taught district schools from fifteen to nineteen, and at the Hill School and William Penn Charter School after graduation from college.

He was a member of Yale football team, crew and track team four years, and coached University of Pennsylvania crew and football team.

He practiced law in Philadelphia ten years, New York City, eight years; Law Officer, United States Forest Service, 1903-1906; As

of the Interior, 1907-1909. He was Federal District Judge, Territory of Hawaii, 1909-1910; General Counsel, Director and Executive Officer, Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, 1910-1918; General Counsel Conservation Commission, Pennsylvania State Grange, 1918-1920; Chief, Bureau of Lands of Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, 1920-1921; Attorney General of Pennsylvania since January, 1923. He was a member of Roosevelt's Tennis Cabinet," and also of Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon Fraternities, and of Skull and Bones Society at Yale. He married, in 1921, Anna Elfreda Foster, of Warren, Pennsylvania.

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,

CLYDE L. KING was born in Burlington, ing's Agricultural Conference (1921) and also Kansas, May 1, 1879, son of Peter and Sarah of his Unemployment Conference (1922). Under (Talliaferro) King. He is a graduate of the appointment by Secretary Hoover he served on University of Michigan (B.A.), 1907, and of the Advisory Committee of the European Dithe Graduate School of the University of Penn- vision of the Department of Commerce (1922). sylvania (Ph.D.), 1911. He has been In- From May, 1922 to January, 1923, Chairman structor (1911-1914), Assistant Professor (1914- of the Citizens' Committee on the Finances of 1920) and Professor (since 1920) of Political Pennsylvania-appointed by Gifford Pinchot to Science in the University of Pennsylvania. He investigate the finances of the State of Pennsylis editor of the Annals of the American Aca- vania. On January 16, 1923, he was appointed demy of Political and Social Science. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

He was Chairman of the Governors Tri-State Milk Commission, appointed by the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware (19161918); Milk Commissioner for Eastern States for United States Food Administration (19181919): Milk Price Arbitrator of Pennsylvania and Baltimore since 1919. He was chosen as Expert to the Advisory Committee of the National Republican Committee during the spring and summer of 1920. In 1921 he served as Economist to the Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry, composed of twelve members of the National Congress, six from each House. He was a member of President Hard

Author: "History of the Government of Denver" (1911); "Regulation of Municipal Utilities" (1913: "Trolley Freight and Philadelphia Markets" (1913); "Lowering Living Costs in Cities" (1915); "The Price of Milk" (1920). Also numerous magazine articles.

Member of Christian (Disciples) Church. Member of American Economic Association: Political Science Association; American Academy of Political and Social Science; National Tax Association: National Municipal League; National Association of University Professors; Delta Sigma Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma Fraternities.

Service) in 1915; was also appointed Supervising Principal of the Breck School, Philadelphia, in 1916, of the Keyser Meehan School, Philadelphia, in 1917, and of the Benson School, Philadelphia, in 1918. He was Assistant Director of the Teacher Bureau, State Department of Public Instruction in 1920, and Director of the Administration Bureau of the same Department in 1922; was commissioned Deputy Superintendent Public Instruction in 1925. He was appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction on May 18, 1925.

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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. FRANCIS B. HAAS was born June 6, 1884, | in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Frederick and Emma (Roberts) Haas. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia; was graduated from the Central High School, Philadelphia, in 1904, and from the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy (Normal School for Men) in 1906. He was appointed a teacher in the Kenderton Grammar School in Philadelphia in 1906; was a senior counsellor at Camp Brumbaugh, (Philadelphia Playgrounds Association) during the summer of 1906; taught Mathematics in the Philadelphia Central Y. M. C. A., evening course in 1907; received supervising principal's certificate from the Philadelphia Board of Education in 1911; was an instructor at Girard College, Philadelphia, in the intermediate grades in the summer of 1912; was appointed demonstration teacher in the School of Practice in the School of Pedagogy in 1913; was senior counsellor at Camp Ozark, New Hampshire, the summer of 1913; was elecAlumni ted president of the Association the School of Pedagogy in 1913; was structor in Mathematics, Philadelphia Evening High School in 1914.

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He was graduated from Temple University with the degree of B.S. in 1913; received the degree of M. A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922; and the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy from Temple University in 1925.

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He is a member of the Lambda Sigma and Phi Delta Kappa Fraternities; vice-president of the National Educational Association in 1925. He has for twenty years been actively identified with public school affairs in Pennsylvania as He has a classroom teacher and administrator. of been active member in and participant educational meetings and movements and a contributor to educational literature. He took an active part in the preparation of the educational budget presented to the Legislature of 1925. He is a Methodist. In 1916, he married Miriam Rider, of Philadelphia. They have three children, Mary, Jean, and Francis B., Jr.

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He was appointed to the faculty of the School of Pedagogy of (Department Pedagogy) 1915; received the principal's certificate for Recreation Center (Philadelphia Municipal Civil

AUDITOR GENERAL.

He served in the Spanish-
He was elected

EDWARD MARTIN was born in Washington to the Bar in 1905. Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Sep- American and World Wars. tember 18, 1879. He was graduated from Auditor General of Pennsylvania on November Waynesburg College in 1901 and was admitted 4, 1924.

SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

JAMES F. WOODWARD of McKeesport, Allegheny County, was born in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1868. In 1873 the family moved to Pittsburgh where Mr. Woodward attended the public schools in the old City of Allegheny, now North Side, Pittsburgh. Upon leaving school, he entered the shops of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company, where he learned the trade of machinist. Later, he entered the Park Institute Preparatory Department of the Western University, and upon finishing his course, he attended the Western Pennsylvania University. now known as the University of Pittsburgh.

After leaving the University he spent two years in the office of the County Commissioners He was then appointed of Allegheny County. bookkeeper and assistant superintendent of the West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, in which capacity he served until December, 1894, when he

was appointed superintendent of the McKeesport General Hospital, which position he filled until January, 1919, when he resigned to take the oath of office of Secretary of Internal Affairs.

He was first elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1904, and served contipuously in that body until the conclusion of

a director of the McKeesport Realty Company,
the Board of Trustees of the McKeesport Hos-
various business
and is interested in
pital
affairs in his community.

He was nominated by the Republican party
and assumed the
for the office of Secretary of Internal Affairs
May 21, 1918, to which office he was elected
in the following November,
In November,
duties thereof May 6, 1919.
1922, Mr. Woodward was re-elected and began
his second term May 1, 1923.

STATE TREASURER.

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SAMUEL S. LEWIS was born in York, York eight years, having been appointed by PresiHe dent Roosevelt, and reappointed by President Auditor General He was elected County, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1874. was educated in the public schools of his native Taft. city, graduating from the York High School Pennsylvania in November, 1920, in which office the Law Department he served from May 3, 1921 to May 4, 1925. He was elected State Treasurer of Pennsylvania and subsequently from He is a member of 1924, assuming the duties of of Columbia University. He served as post- in November, the York County Bar. master of the city of York for a period of this office on May 4, 1925.

ADJUTANT GENERAL.

Lehigh

FRANK D. BEARY was born February 18, | Acting Commissary of Subsistence and served as County, Penn- such throughout the Porto Rican Campaign; in 1869, at Allentown, He was educated in the public Mexican Border Service he was mustered into sylvania. schools of the city of Allentown and Mulvey's the United States Service as Major, Fourth PennAcademy, a private school of Newark, New sylvania Infantry, July 8, 1916, and mustered Jersey. He joined the National Guard of Penn- out with his regiment January 17, 1917. He was detailed by Governor Pennypacker as one of the officers to organize the State sylvania in 1888 as a member of Company B, Battalion was appointed Fourth Infantry; Sergeant-Major of the Fourth Regiment in 1896 Constabulary, and mustered in, organized and He was appointed at Wyoming, Pennsylvania. and Battalion Adjutant in 1898; was appointed commanded Troop B, State Police, stationed Brumbaugh, Adjutant of the Regiment in 1899, and served as such for nine years, until elected Major in the Deputy Adjutant General in 1911, and Adjutant This position he held General by Governor Martin G. Fourth Infantry in 1908. until appointed Colonel, Adjutant General's De- October 4, 1917; reappointed Adjutant General partment, in 1917. He served during the Spanish by Governor Sproul, February 11, 1919; reapWar as Second Lieutenant and Battalion Ad-pointed by Governor Pinchot, January 16, 1923. and was appointed jutant, Fourth Infantry,

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.

EINAR BARFOD was born at Helsinge, DenHe attended Schneekmark, on May 30, 1875. He went to loth Latin School of Copenhagen. sea at the age of fourteen; arrived in America in 1898. He was graduated from Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, evening classes, in 1902. He engaged in newspaper work and was conthe Public nected with the Morning Times,

He Ledger, the Record, the Press and the North American, all of Philadelphia, until 1919. was President of the Investors Protective Service of Philadelphia; appointed Deputy Secretary of Banking to administer and enforce the Securities Act of Pennsylvania, July 26, 1923, resigning on appointment as Insurance Commissioner, August 16, 1926.

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.

FRANK P. WILLITS was born on a farm in
Maiden Creek Township, Berks County, Penn-
1856. He attended
November 3,
sylvania,
Concordville,
Institute,
Delaware
Maplewood
He entered business with his brother,
County.
William, at Leesport, Berks County, and con-
tinued until the year 1884.

1885;
He married Elizabeth A. Paschall, of Con-
cordville. Delaware County, February,
has two sons, Paul L., and Joseph H.
farm in Concord Township
He purchased a
He
and has been living there since that time.
was connected in many ways with the advance-
ment of agricultural interests, being particularly
He was treasurer
interested in Grange work.
of the Pennsylvania State Grange for twelve
years, helped to organize the Pomona Grange

He No. 3 Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chester and Delaware Counties, and has been on the executive committee since its organization. took a deep interest in organizing the InterState Milk Producers' Association, having been. its president for five years and is still a director and on the executive committee. He is treasurer and member of the executive committee of the National Milk Producers' Federation, Incorporated.

He has been a member of the Board of School Directors of Concord Township for twenty-five years and president of the board a large part He is also director in Grange He was apNational Bank of Downingtown. of that time. pointed Secretary of Agriculture by Governor Pinchot, January 16, 1923.