Background
MADDOX, Rufus Shcrrell was born on November 19, 1874 in Delrose, Tennessee, United States.
MADDOX, Rufus Shcrrell was born on November 19, 1874 in Delrose, Tennessee, United States.
Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, 1907. Yale Forest School, Master of Forestry, 1909.
Y.C. Taught forestry. Pennsylvania State College, 1913. Chosen to take charge of forestry work in Tennessee, 1914.
By legislative act, 1921, state forestry work in Tennessee made a dept. State Forester of Tennessee, since 1921. Co-author: (with Dr. A. E. Parkins, Peabody College, in Forestry text book) Our Trees and How They Serve Us, (published by Charles Scribner’s Sons and adopted 1925 as required text book in public schools of Tennessee).
Member: Society American Foresters. American Forestry Association. Tennessee Academy, of Science.
Masons; Alpha Delta Phi.
Spouse Marie Janet Morrow, January 3, 1912, N.