Mr. Tavenner, will you proceed, please.
TESTIMONY OF JEREMIAH JOSEPH O’CONNELL—Resumed
Mr. Tavenner. Mr. O’Connell, were you acquainted with Robert Marshall during his lifetime?
Mr. O’Connell. Yes, I was.
Mr. Tavenner. What were the circumstances under which you became acquainted with him?
Mr. O’Connell. Robert Marshall at the time of my original acquaintance with him was chief of the reclamation division of the forestry service. He had begun his early career in the forestry service at Missoula, Mont., which was located in my Congressional District, the First or Western Congressional District of Montana.
Shortly after I came back to Washington to take my seat in 1937, Robert Marshall came to my office and introduced himself and told me that because he had started his career in the forestry service out there he had always had an interest in the district particularly because of its large forestry holdings, large forestry provisions, and he and I became close friends, socially, I would say more socially than anything else. I think he died about a year and a half or maybe two years after I—I can’t remember whether he died in 1938 or 1939.
Mr. Tavenner. His will was probated in 1940.
Mr. O’Connell. I think that is correct. His death was probably in 1939.
Mr. Tavenner. Were you one of the witnesses to his will?