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Nathaniel Egleston

Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston (May 7, 1822 – August 24, 1912) was an American clergyman and forester who served as the second chief of the United States Division of Forestry, which would later become the U.S. Forest Service. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1840, continuing to study theology at the Yale Divinity School. He helped found the American Congregational Union in 1853 and was one of the founders of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an editor of the Congregational Herald. In 1882 he became a vice president of the American Forestry Association, and served as chief of the Division of Forestry from 1883 to 1886.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ George Derby; James Terry White (1906). The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. 13. J. T. White. pp. 340–341.
  2. ^ Miller, Char (2005). "Amateur Hour: Nathaniel H. Egleston and Professional Forestry in Post–Civil War America" (PDF). Forest History Today: 20–26.
  3. ^ Williams, Gerald W. (2007). The Forest Service: Fighting for Public Lands. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-313-33794-9.
  4. ^ Yale University (1915). Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University. Yale University. pp. 339–341.


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Egleston