1906.] IN MEMORIAM. 281 



5n Sr^cnioriam, 



Theodore Sedg^vick Gold, former Secretary of the Board of 

 Agriculture, was the son of Dr. S. W. Gold of Cornwall, Conn. 



Born in Madison, N. Y., March 2, 1818, died March 20, 

 1906, at his home on Cream Hill, where he had lived for sixty- 

 four years. 



When he was very young the family returned to Connecti- 

 cut and lived in Goshen until after his graduation from Yale 

 in 1838. 



After teaching for three years he moved to the ancestral 

 farm in Cornwall and with his father established an agricul- 

 tural school, which they continued for twenty-four years. 



It was through his untiring efforts and belief in the results 

 to be obtained that the Connecticut Board of Agriculture was 

 established in 1866 and he was made its first secretary, w^hich 

 office he held continuously for thirty-four years. Mr. Gold 

 also, with the aid of others, secured the establishment of the 

 Connecticut Experiment Station, the first in this countr\% and it 

 has proved its merit by holding first rank with any in the world. 



He was officially connected with the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Society from its beginning in 1853, for twenty years 

 Trustee of Storrs School and Agricultural College, Member 

 of the Board of Control of the Connecticut Experiment Station 

 from its establishment. Fellow of the A. A. A. S., Member of 

 the Am. Pom. Soc. ; Am. Forestrv^ Asso. ; National Geographic 

 Soc. ; Am. Hist. Soc. ; Conn. Hist. Soc. ; Conn. For. Asso. ; 

 S. A. R., and Founders and Patriots. 



For nearly half a century he lectured on agricultural sub- 

 jects, having delivered a course of lectures at the Sheffield 

 Scientific School in i860. At one time editor and for more 

 than sixty years a contributor to the agricultural press. 



Mr. Gold was always a student from his infancy to his last 

 days, an extensive reader on subjects relating to science and 

 the arts. He had a wide acquaintance with men of learning 

 and prominence throughout the country. 



. As a farmer always progressive in his methods and an 

 early importer of blooded stock. 



