290 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAI. SOCIETY, 



REPORT OF COMxMITTEE ON OBITUARIES. 



David Underwood Reed was born October 12, 1842, at Car- 

 lisle; Pennsylvania, and met accidental death at Glenwood, Iowa, 

 September 27, 1895. At the age of six years Mr. Reed moved with 

 his parents to Port Byron, Illin6is. When nineteen years of age he 

 volunteered his services to liis country and joined Company H, Fifty- 

 first Infantry, and was in the service four years, seeing a great deal of 

 hard service. He has tasted of prison lifis and was honorably dis- 

 charged at the close of the war. After the war he removed to Ham- 

 burg, Iowa, where he remained until 1881, when he removed to Blue 

 Springs, Nebraska. At this place he conducted a successful nursery 

 business and was always a hard worker, an enthusiastic fruit-grower, 

 and one of the most wide-awake and energetic citizens. A man of 

 noble character, possessed of such a kindly nature that won him 

 hosts of friends everywhere, who greatly miss him both in his every- 

 day walk in life and in his chosen pursuit, horticulture. 



Mr. Reed rendered good service to our state in 1893, collecting fruit 

 for the Nebraska exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 

 which he was very enthusiastic and gave much time and energy to 

 make the Nebraska exhibit a success. He will be greatly missed by 

 his co-workers in horticulture, among whom he was held in the great- 

 est respect. 



Charles Lee Ingersoll was born November 1, 1844, in Perry > 

 Wyoming county,New York; died December 15, 1895,in Grand Junc- 

 tion, Colorado; educated in the common schools of his native town 

 and the neighboring town of Orangeville until eleven years of age> 

 and after that for seven years in the public schools of Commerce, 

 Michigan, to which place his parents moved in 1855. In 1862 lie 

 began his career as a teacher by conducting a country school for a 

 winter, and again from 1865 to 1872. In the last named year he en- 

 tered the Michigan Agricultural College, at Lansing, graduating in 

 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He continued his 



