RECORD, SAMUEL JAMES: 1881-1945.
Samuel James Record was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Mar. 10, 1881, the son of James K. P. and Mary M. Hutton Record. He graduated from Crawfordsville High School in 1899. Entering Wabash College, he received the A.B. degree in 1903, the A.M. in 1906 and the M.F. from Yale University in 1905. Wabash College awarded the Sc.D. in 1930. Samuel James Record and Mary E. Strauss were married on Apr. 1, 1906.
In 1904 he had become identified with the U. S. Forestry Service, where he continued until he joined the Yale University faculty in 1910. At Yale he was successively instructor, professor and, after 1939, dean of the school of forestry. His special interests were forest products and their uses and tropical forestry. He was editor and manager of the quarterly TROPICAL WOODS after 1925.
He contributed largely to learned journals and serials in his field.
Dean Record died Feb. 3, 1945.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Wabash College Archives.
- Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States,
Including a Discussion of the Structural and Physical Properties of
Wood. New York, 1912.
- Mechanical Properties of Wood, Including a Discussion of the
Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber
Testing. New York, 1914.
- Timbers of Tropical America (withC. D. Mell). New Haven, Conn., 1924.
- Identification of the Timbers of Temperate North America,
Including Anatomy and Certain Physical Properties of Wood.
New York, 1934.
- North American Trees; a Guide to the Charles F. Millspaugh
Hall of Field Museum. Chicago, 1934.
- Forests of British Honduras. 1936.
- Timbers of the New World. New Haven,
Conn., 1943.
