Background
Hosmer, Ralph Sheldon was born on March 4, 1874 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review George Herbert and Julia West (Sheldon) Hosmer.
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Ralph Sheldon Hosmer
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Harvard, 1894. Master of Forestry, Yale, 1902.
Career
Assistant Division of Soils, Department Agriculture, 1896-1898. Field assistant Bureau Forestry, 1989-1903. Collaborator in the United States Forest Service, superintendent forestry, Hawaii, 1904-1914.
Professor forestry Cornell Univercity and head department forestry New York State College Agriculture, 1914-1942, emeritus, since 1942.
Chairman Territorial Conservation communications of Hawaii, 1908-1914.
Achievements
Membership
Member research council Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1926-1942. Member of New York State Conservation Advisory Council, 1932-1941. Member City Planning Commission, Ithaca, New York, 1928-1938.
Member Executive Committee Celebration of New York’s Fifty Years of Conservation, 1935, commemoration committee 75th Anniversary New York’s Forest Preserve.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society American Foresters (president 1923), Forest History Foundation. Member American Forestry Association, Empire State Forest Products Association (honorary life), Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi.
Club: Statler (Cornell Univercity).
Connections
Married Jessie Nash Irwin, December 30, 1913. Children: David Irwin, Jane Sheldon (Mistress Robert Hall Llewellyn), Emily Frances (Mistress Marc Daniels).
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Born
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July 19, 1963 (aged 89) -
Resting place
Buried Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts -
Nationality
American -
Religion
Unitarian -
Political Party
Republican
Awards
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Recipient Sir William Schlich Memorial Forestry medal, 1950. Given special introduction for five decades of service at golden anniversary dinner United States Forest Service, 1955.Recipient Sir William Schlich Memorial Forestry medal, 1950. Given special introduction for five decades of service at golden anniversary dinner United States Forest Service, 1955.