California State Officials Biographies 1911

G. MORRIS HOMANS

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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STATE FORESTER
G. MORRIS HOMANS (Republican) was born in North Vassalboro, Maine, December 23, 
1881. He received his early education in the public schools in Boston, Mass., 
and later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale Summer School 
of Forestry, special courses at Arnold Arboretum, and the Biltmore Forest 
School, Biltmore, North Carolina, from which school he graduated in 1904, 
receiving the degree of B.F. He then entered the United States Forest Service 
and held various administrative positions, among which was Assistant Forest 
Inspector of Oregon, Washington and Alaska, finally attaining the rank of 
Assistant District Forester in 1908 in charge of the office of Silviculture, 
with headquarters at San Francisco. He resigned from the Forest Service in 
March, 1910, to accept the appointment of State Forester of California.


Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913