Theodore Salisbury Woolsey Jr. (October 2, 1879 – July 10, 1933) was a

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employee, forestry researcher, professor at

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and author of books and articles related to forestry and forest regulation.

Early life

Woolsey was the son of the legal scholar Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, and grandson of Yale University president

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World War I

In 1917 Woolsey was offered the position of Major in the U.S. Army on the staff of the 10th Engineers (Forestry), a unit organized to produce timber in France for the American military forces during the

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. 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.

Afterwards

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.

Family life

Theodore Woolsey Jr. married Ruby Hilsman Pickett of Dawson, Georgia, on March 15, 1908. They had five daughters, two of whom were born outside the United States in Switzerland and France, respectively. In his later years his family resided in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died by a self-inflicted gunshot on July 10, 1933. Mount Woolsey in

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is named after Theodore Woolsey, the first recorded ascent was made a few days after Woolsey's death, the party who made that ascent had included Woolsey's daughter

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but on hearing of her father's unexpected death she left to return to New Haven. The name Mount Woolsey was formally approved in 1961.

References

Inventory of the Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., Auxiliary Photograph Collection, circa 1900s - 1910s
in the

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Library and Archives, Durham, NC

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury Jr American foresters 1879 births 1933 deaths Yale University faculty Cornell family Forestry academics History of forestry in the United States American conservationists Woolsey family 1933 suicides Suicides by firearm in Connecticut