Ralph Chipman Hawley

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Ralph Chipman Hawley (also Ralph C. Hawley , born March 5, 1880 in Atlanta , Georgia , † January 19, 1971 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American forest scientist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

Ralph Chipman Hawley, from Atlanta , Georgia, son of Chester Warren Hawley and his wife Martha Jaqueth Hawley, graduated in 1901 with a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College in Amherst , Massachusetts . He then turned to the study of forest sciences at Yale University , where he earned a Master of Forestry degree in 1904 .

Ralph Chipman Hawley, a member of the Congregational Church and a staunch Republican supporter , married Mary Minor in September 1910, who died in 1945. The children Alfred Minor and Katharine Jaquet came from this connection. In October 1945 he was married to Hilda Happe for the second time. The resident of West Cheshire, Connecticut, died in New Haven in early 1971 at the age of 90.

Professional background

Ralph Chipman Hawley took up a position as a Forester Assistant at the Bureau of Forestry after graduating , and in 1906 he moved to Massachusetts, where he took on the position of Assistant State Forester at the Massachusetts Forest Service. The following year he switched to the position of instructor in Forestry at the School of Forestry at Yale University. The later promoted to Professor of Silviculture was retired in 1948 . Ralph Chipman Hawley also served as Treasurer and Secretary of the North Eastern Forestry Company , President of Connwood Incorporation, and Forester of New Haven Water Company .

Ralph Chipman Hawley, one of the leading forest scientists in the United States of his day, was a member of the Society of American Foresters , the American Association of University Professors , the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, and the Delta Upsilon .

Publications

  • with Austin Foster Hawes: Forestry in New England; a handbook of eastern forest management, 1st ed., 1st thousand, J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1912
  • with Austin Foster Hawes: Manual of Forestry for the Northeastern United States , 2d ed, J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1918
  • together with Perry Henry Merrill: Hemlock: its place in the silviculture of the southern New England forest, in: Yale University. School of Forestry. Bulletin, no.12, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1924
  • with Louis Jack Leffelman: Studies of Connecticut hardwoods; the treatment of advance growth arising as a result of thinnings and shelterwood cuttings, in: Yale University .; School of Forestry .; Bulletin, Yale University, New Haven, 1925
  • with William Maughan: The Eli Whitney Forest; a demonstration of forestry practice, in: Yale University .; School of Forestry .; Bulletin, Yale University, New Haven, 1930
  • Observations on thinning and management of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus Linnaeus) in southern New Hampshire, in: Yale University .; School of Forestry .; Bulletin, Yale University, New Haven, 1936
  • The practice of silviculture, with particular reference to its application in the United States of America, 4th ed, J. Wiley & Sons, inc., New York, Chapman & Hall, limited, London, 1937
  • together with Robert Temple Clapp: Growing of white pine on the Yale forest near Keene, New Hamphire [sic], in: Yale University .; School of Forestry .; Bulletin, Yale University, New Haven, 1942
  • together with Paul William Stickel: Forest protection, 2d ed, J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1948
  • together with David M. Smith: The practice of silviculture, 7th ed, J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1962

literature

  • Yale University. Department of Forestry: Biographical record of the graduates and former students of the Yale Forest School; with introductory papers on Yale in the forestry movement and the history of the Yale Forest School, New Haven, 1913, p. 79.
  • Henry Edward Clepper: Leaders of American Conservation, Ronald Press Co., New York, 1971, p. 155.
  • Who was who in America. : volume V, 1969-1973 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 318.
  • Richard H Stroud, Natural Resources Council of America: National leaders of American conservation, 2nd ed., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1985, p. 191.

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personal data
SURNAME Hawley, Ralph Chipman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hawley, Ralph C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American forest scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1971
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut