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Warder. The kind attention and encourgement then shown 

 me has exerted an influence upon my life work. 



Z. S. Ragan, of Missouri — I have known Dr. Warder for 

 forty years. At our meeting in Cincinnati, he could not do 

 enough for us. He did not go to his home during the meeting, 

 but devoted his whole time to the Society. 



Gov. Colman, of Missouri — I do not think anything could be. 

 added to the beautiful memorial we have heard. Dr. Warder 

 was of a very affectionate disposition. A young Mr. Beeler, of 

 Indianapolis, one of the most promising young men I ever 

 knew, was very much attached to him. Dr. Warder shed tears 

 at his grave — such was his interest in the young. When attend- 

 ing a meeting, we once occupied the same room. He was to 

 give an address, and I was astonished how he wrote it there on 

 the spur of the moment, and it was so beautiful. When he was 

 studying forestry in Missouri — with his usual diligence — he 

 told me that the people did not appreciate the subject then, but 

 they would at some future time. When he went to Montreal 

 to attend the American Forestry Congress, his whole soul was 

 in the work. I hoped and almost prayed that his life might 

 long be spared, for I knew of no one else who could have done 

 so much in that direction. Dr. Warder was one of the most 

 careful and cautious of men. He was also most unselfish. If 

 there ever was a philanthropist in the widest sense of the term, 

 he was one. 



T. V. Munson, of Texas — Though I only knew him a short 

 time, I want to express my appreciation of him. I first saw 

 him at the meeting of this Society in St. Louis. He came to me 

 for a word in a resolution. Since that time we have had con- 

 siderable pleasant intercourse. 



Gov. Fmmas, of Nebraska — When the United States was 

 divided into four districts for the investigation of forestry 

 interests, one division was assigned to him and one to myself; 

 but illness soon compelled him to resign. A few weeks later 

 his body was carried by his four sons and quietly laid to rest 

 in Spring Grove Cemetery. He was a Friend ; and in his 

 death, as in his life, all needless display was avoided. 





