ERNEST EVERETT BOGUE was born January 13, 1864, in Orwell, Ohio.
He was of French Huguenot stock on his father's side. There were nine
children in the family, six of whom with the mother are still living. Mr.
Bogue's early ambition was to gain a higher education, and to this end he
constantly worked, earning most of the money with which to defray his expenses at school and college. He taught one term of district school; spent
three years at New Lyme Institute, where he graduated in 1888, and in the fall
of 1889 entered Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1894
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and Forestry, and in
June, 1896, he received from the same University the degree of Master of
Science in Entomology and Botany.

He loved trees, plants and music, and the home surroundings and associations and education in the University all tended in the same direction.

He married on March 25, 1896, Miss Myra V. Wilcox of Columbus, Ohio,
and went immediately to Oklahoma as head of the department of Botany
and Entomology of the State Agricultural College, resigning in the spring
of 1900, after teaching four years, to take post graduate work at Harvard
University, from which institution he received the degree of Master of Arts
in June, 1902. In September of that year he accepted the new chair of
Forestry in Michigan Agricultural College, where his skill, originality,
ingenuity and genial ways soon attracted a large class of students. He
took great interest in the subject of Forestry throughout the State, visiting
many of the leading farmers to encourage and help them in plans for the
correct management of their wood lots, and in starting original plantations.
A map of the State hung in his office well dotted with red spots showing the
localities of these early efforts by farmers of Michigan. He was likewise
much interested in plans to improve the stump lands in the north part of
the State, and in experimenting on the wild lands of the college located in
the same region.

He started a forest nursery, a part of the plan of which was to furnish
young trees at cost for the farmers to plant. For the beautiful home
erected he selected a congenial spot near the papaw bushes, sloping to the
bank of the Red Cedar, where the dam below made a delightful place for
rowing for over a mile in extent. Pitcher plants, orchids and numerous
wild plants of his selection occupied suitable spots between the house and
the river. With excellent judgment, he selected a nice variety of trees
and planted about his new home, among them a fine grove of Norway
Spruces, with the view of furnishing Christmas trees to the neighborhood
when they should attain suitable size. The chief charm of the location,
as he rightly viewed it, was just across the river on the farm, a virgin
forest of maples, beeches, basswoods, elms and others delighting in such
surroundings.

He was a man of deep religious convictions; but his creed was formulated
in acts of Christian living rather than in words of belief. He was long the
superintendent of the Sunday school near the college.

After a protracted illness, he died August 19, 1907, as we might say in the
midst of a promising career of usefulness, as a man, a citizen, and a teacher.
W. J. BEAL.