Background
Gill, Thomas Harvey was born on January 21, 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Alexander and Clara (Lex) Gill.
Gill, Thomas Harvey was born on January 21, 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Alexander and Clara (Lex) Gill.
Bachelor of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1913. Master of Forestry, Yale, 1915; Doctor honoris causa, U. Andes, Venezuela, 1953.
Assistant instructor forest mensuration Yale Forest School, 1914. Timber estimator Kaul Lumber Company, 1915. Assistant ranger United States Forest Service, 1915, forest ranger, 1916-1917, deputy forest supervisor, 1920-1921, forest supervisor, 1922, in charge forest service educational activities, 1922-1925.
Associate editor American Forests and Forest Life Magazine, 1925.
Executive director Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, 1952-1960, secretary Forestry Foundation, 1926-1960. Adviser on forest policy for Philippines, 1959.
United States delegate, member organizing committee 5th World Forestry Congress, Seattle, 1960, delegate 6th Congress, Madrid, 1966 (vice chairman United States national committee). Member United States national committee 7th Congress, Buenos Aires, 1972.
Member Timber Conservation Board (advising committee).
Fellow Oberlaender Trust, 1936. Member William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, 1937-1945. Member publications committee for psychiatry Journal Biology and Pathology of Interpersonal Relations, 1937-1945.
Member interim committee managers
Washington School Psychiatry, 1937-1945. Special adviser on forestry United Nations Committee on Food and Agriculture, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1946, adviser American delegation, Washington, 1948-1949, Rome, 1955.
Adviser on forest policy for Japan, 1951, Formosa, 1952, 56. Delegate United States Government 3d World Forestry Congress, Helsinki, 1949, Inter-American Conservation Conference, Denver, 1948.
Executive director International Union Societies
Foresters, 1966-1970. Chairman Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) Committee Unexploited Forests, 1947, chairman American delegation Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) Conference Land Utilization Far East, 1951, Far East Forestry Commission meeting, 1952. Chairman Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) com on forestry development in tropics, 1967-1969.
Member National Academy Sciences advising committee on research to National Park Service, 1962-1965.
Made 1st forest survey, party aerial, tropical forests in Carribean region, penetrating undiscovered sections 1st mosaic aerial map United States, 1919.
Served as First lieutenant AS, United States Army, World War I. Fellow Society American Foresters (Schlich medal 1954). Clubs: Explorers (New York City).
Married Vivian Perry, December 31, 1918.