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Woolsey was the son of the legal scholar Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, and grandson of Yale University president Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
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Theodore Woolsey
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In 1917 Woolsey was offered the position of Major in the United States. Army on the staff of the 10th Engineers (Forestry), a unit organized to produce timber in France for the American military forces during the First World War. His duties with the 10th Engineers (later the 20th Engineers) included purchasing standing timber to be manufactured for the use of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. After the war, Woolsey returned to Connecticut and worked as a consulting forester, a lecturer at Yale"s forestry school, as well as with several national forestry organizations and conservation groups.
