Theodore Salisbury Woolsey Jr. (October 2, 1879 – July 10, 1933)[1] was a United States Forest Service employee, forestry researcher, professor at Yale University and author of books and articles related to forestry and forest regulation.
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 First World War.
[3] 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.
[citation needed] Theodore Woolsey Jr. married Ruby Hilsman Pickett of Dawson, Georgia, on March 15, 1908.
In his later years his family resided in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died by a self-inflicted gunshot on July 10, 1933.