January 25, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



81 



Obituary 



John H. Dillon. 

 John H. Dillon, for many years con- 

 nected with the Park and Recreation 

 Department of Boston, and during 

 Mayor Curley's administration chair- 

 man of the Park Board, died on Sun- 

 day morning. January 19th, at his 

 home in Dorchester, of pneumonia and 

 a disordered heart. He was sixty- 

 three years old, and leaves a widow 

 and two stepchildren, also a brother. 

 James, who has been for many years 

 prominently identified with the plant- 

 ing and landscape department of 

 Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, 

 R. I. 



Mr. Dillon was born in Dorchester, 

 the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Dillon. 

 His father was a gardener in charge 

 of a prominent estate in Dorchester, 

 and the young man. got his first rudi- 

 ments of horticulture through em- 

 ployment under his father. At the 

 age of about sixteen he was associated 

 with Wm. J. Stewart in the employ of 

 W. C. Strong & Co., who had a large 

 retail flower business on Beacon street, 

 Boston. From there lie entered the 

 employ of the city of Boston under the 

 late Superintendent Doogue of the 

 Park Department. Supt. Doogue put 

 Mr. Dillon in charge of the public 

 gardens, and during the remainder of 

 the year he was in charge of the green- 

 houses of the department. After serv- 

 ing as foreman for a few years he was 

 offered a more lucrative position at 

 the Forest Hills Cemetery which he 

 accepted and served there for five 

 years after which he resigned and re- 

 turned to take up his duties again 

 with the city under Supt. Doogue. 

 Again he resigned and associated him- 

 self with the firm of William S. Ewell 

 & Son. which made a specialty of grow- 

 ing Dutch bulbs, and when he acquired 

 an extended knowledge along this line 

 he again re-entered the city's employ. 

 At the death of Mr. Doogue, he was 

 placed in charge of the public garden. 

 When Mayor Curley became chief 

 executive, he appointed Mr. Dillon 

 chairman of the Park and Recreation 

 Roard to fill the unexpired term of D. 

 Henry Sullivan, who had been re- 

 moved by Mayor Curley. On May 10, 

 1916, Mayor Curley named Mr. Dillon 

 tor re-appointment, but the Civil Serv- 

 ice Commission failed to confirm it, 

 and later on after the election of 

 Mayor Peters, Mr. Dillon handed in 

 his resignation after having been in 

 the service of the city for more than 

 forty years. During the past year he 

 has been in failing health aivl has 

 lieen inactive. 



Conrad Frauenfelder. 



In the death of Conrad Frauenfelder 

 Jan. 19th, after a brief illness, Chicago 

 loses one of its pioneer retail florists. 



Born in Switzerland sixty-two years 

 ago next May, Mr. Frauenfelder came 

 to this country and started in the 

 greenhouse business in a very small 

 way at 3343 W. Madison street, a place 

 then far from the business district. 

 With the growth of the city his place 

 has come to be part of a high class 

 business section which adjoins Gar- 

 field Park. The large double store 

 which is now used to carry on the 

 trade he has built up is a monument 

 to Mr. Frauenfelder's close application 

 and fair dealing. He was universally 

 respected and while he devoted his 

 time so closely to home and business 

 that he could not reguarly attend the 



died at his home on Jan. 11th, aged 

 74 years, after an illness of about a 

 year. He was a native of Devonshire, 

 Eng., coming to this country in 1873. 

 He was formerly in the employ of 

 Robert Veitch, New Haven, following 

 which he held a position of gardener 

 on a private estate for seventeen 

 years. He has been in the dahlia 

 business since 1899. He is survived 

 by a widow and three sons, also four 

 sisters and one brother. 



Capt. John H. Dillon. 



florists' gatherings, he was a member 

 of the Society of American Florists 

 and of the Chicago Florists' Club. 



Mr. Frauenfelder leaves a wife, a 

 daughter Miss Edna, who was associ- 

 ated with him in the business and who 

 will now take charge of it, a little 

 daughter Hazel, and a brother Fred, 

 a landscape architect from Pittsburg. 

 Penn. 



The funeral was held Jan. 22nd at 

 1.30 from the West Chicago Masonic 

 Temple, 12 Oakley Boulevard, under 

 auspices of Chicago Commandery 19 

 K. T. Masonic service 3 p. m. previous 

 to which the body lay in state one 

 hour. 



Interment was at Forest Home 

 Cemetery. 



Mrs. Augustus Gerstenberg. 

 Mrs. Augusta Gerstenberg passed 

 away at her home in Washington, D. 

 C, last week, following a paralytic 

 stroke. The deceased was the wife 

 of Ernst Gerstenberg, a member of the 

 Florists' Club of Washington, D. C. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Gerstenberg came to the 

 United States about thirty-five years 

 ago. They have been spending a great 

 deal of time at their place at Suit- 

 land. Md. 



John Moore. 

 John Moore, of Little Silver, N. J., 

 who owned a greenhouse business, 

 died on January 10, after a long ill- 

 ness, at the age of 67 years. He was 

 born in Glasgow, Scotland, but had 

 lived in Little Silver for over forty 

 years. Hej is survived by a widow 

 and two children. 



James Horan. 

 James Horan, son of the late James 

 Horan, of the firm of James Horan & 

 Son, Bridgeport, Ct., died recently of 

 pneumonia. He is survived by his 

 wife and two sons, also his brother. 

 Stephen Horan. 



Mrs. Patrick McGovern. 

 Mrs. Patrick McGovern, widow of 

 the well-known florist of Brooklyn. X. 

 Y., died at her home in Brooklyn on 

 Jan. 7th. 



James McCollom. 

 James McCollom, for many years 

 superintendent of parks of Paterson, 

 N. J., passed away on January 2d. 



John H. Slocombe. 

 John H. Slocombe, a well-known 

 dahlia specialist of New Haven. Ct . 



Thomas Poynter. 

 Thomas Poynter, a Brooklyn florist 

 for forty years, died on Sunday at his 

 home, 40 South Elliott Place, Brook- 

 lyn, aged 8S years. Mr. Poynter was 

 born in England. 



Hartford, Conn. — £ire starting in 

 the boiler room of the greenhouse be- 

 longing to Andrew W. Welch at 31 

 Annawan street did considerable dam- 

 age Monday night. Jan. 12. 



