Nathaniel Egleston

Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston was an American clergyman and forester who served as the second chief of the United States Division of Forestry, which would later become the U.S. [Forest Service]. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1840, continuing to study theology at the Yale [Divinity School]. He helped found the American [Congregational Union] in 1853 and was one of the founders of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an editor of the Congregational Herald. In 1882 he became a vice president of the American Forestry Association, and served as chief of the Division of Forestry from 1883 to 1886.