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Samuel James Record was born on March 10, 1881 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, the son of Mary Minerva (Hutton) and James Knox Polk Records. (He later dropped the "s" from the family name. ) Both parents were of English stock long resident in the United States. His father, a descendant of John Records who emigrated around 1732 to Sussex County, Delaware, was a farmer and schoolteacher.
After attending local schools, Sam Record entered Wabash College in Crawfordsville, graduating in 1903 with the B. A. degree. He then enrolled at the Yale University School of Forestry, but left after one year. At Wabash College he also received an M. A. that year.
He became an assistant in the Division of Forestry (later the Forest Service) of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1906 he took a leave of absence to serve for one semester as instructor in botany and forestry at Wabash College.
Upon returning to the Forest Service, Record made a reconnaissance of the public domain in the Ozarks which later served as a basis for establishing the Arkansas National Forest. Promoted in 1907 to chief of reconnaissance in forest management, he had charge of investigations in the Pacific Northwest and also directed work in Arizona and New Mexico. Later that year he was made supervisor of the combined Arkansas and Ozark National Forests, and when these were reorganized a few years later as separate units, he retained administrative control of the Arkansas (later the Ouachita) Forest, then an area of nearly two million acres.
Record returned to Yale in 1910 to lecture on Forest Service administration. Later that year he was awarded the Master of Forestry degree (as of 1905) and was appointed instructor in forestry.
He remained at Yale until his death, being promoted in 1917 to professor and in 1939 to dean of the School of Forestry. Record early became interested in study of the systematic anatomy of the woods of the world; he developed new techniques for identifying woods, based on the distinctive qualities of the various species, such as structure, weight, grain, intrinsic strength, durability, and color.
In 1912 he published Identification of the Economic Woods in the United States and, two years later, The Mechanical Properties of Wood, both of which long served as standard textbooks in the nation's forestry schools.
When Yale in 1916 established a department of tropical forestry, Record's interests shifted to tropical woods, and, in collaboration with Clayton D. Mell, he wrote Timbers of Tropical America (1924). To promote research in wood anatomy, especially of tropical trees, he founded in 1925 Tropical Woods, a quarterly journal which he edited until his death. After 1925 he devoted much of his time to building a collection of wood specimens on a selective basis, working with collaborators - mostly botanists - in various parts of the world and especially in the American tropics. At the time of his death the Yale Collection of Woods of the World comprised over 41, 000 specimens, representing almost 12, 000 identified species of trees. The collection served as a stimulus for studies of wood structure, identification methods, and wood descriptions. The most important studies were compiled in Timbers of the New World.
Active in professional organizations, Record helped found in 1931 the International Association of Wood Anatomists, and from 1932 to 1938 served as its secretary-treasurer.
For many years he was closely associated with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, having been appointed research associate there in 1928. In the course of his research and field work in Central America, he discovered five new species of trees which bear his name; several species and two genera (Recordoxylon and Recordia) discovered by others were also named in his honor.
Record died at the age of sixty-three of myocardial infarction at the New Haven (Connecticut) Hospital. His ashes were buried in Hutton Cemetery near Crawfordsville.
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On April 1, 1906, Record married Mary Elizabeth Strauss of Topeka, Kansas, by whom he had four children: Harold Clayton, who died in infancy, Mary Elizabeth and Mason Thomas (twins), and Alice Louise.
