146 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Packard made the report of the committee on resolutions 

 as follows : 



The committee on resolutions desires to bring to the notice of the 

 State Board of Agriculture the painful news of the death of the wife of 

 our valued colleague, the director of the Tenth congressional district, 

 Joseph W. Wadsworth of Algona, which occurred at the family home on 

 the fifth day of this month. 



The members of this Board sympathize deeply with our colleague in 

 this great loss and terrible sorrow which has come to him, to his daugh- 

 ter and son; to a vast circle of sorrowing relatives and friends in the 

 death of Emeline A. Wadsworth, the wife, the mother, whose Christian 

 life and example has so much endeared her and which will be ever 

 present in their memory. 



Resolved', That the officers and other members of the Board tender 

 our most sincere condolence and heartfelt sympathy to Joseph, our 

 brother member, and to his children so severely stricken in sorrow and 

 offer our prayers that the Divine and All Merciful One may vouchsafe 

 consolation and comfort to sustain -and reconcile them, to their lossl. 



Resolved, That this tribute be recorded in our minutes and a copy 

 sent to the family at Algona. 



On the twenty-fourth day of December, Frank N. Chase died at his 

 home at Cedar Falls, after a somewhat prolonged and painful illness. 

 Several of our membership have served with our brother in the later 

 years of his life. He was elected as a director in 1882, serving as such 

 until elected vice-president in 1894, and brought to the society his very 

 valuable judgment and painstaking efforts, which contributed greatly to 

 its success since its permanent establishment at Des Moines. In the 

 preparation of the Iowa exhibit at the exposition at Chicago in 1893 and 

 Omaha in 1898 his was the master hand and to him a most generous 

 meed of prise has been accorded. To those who best knew Frank and 

 by whom he was best loved, outside of those having kindred ties, his 

 sunny and genial temperament endeared him! to his friends like a 

 brother. To enumerate the virtues of one who as husband and father 

 has been in his home circle all and everything that a wife could wish, 

 and that a son and daughter could deslire, being upright in citizenship, 

 devoted to his church, and reverently worshipful to God; to the mourn- 

 ing family the members of the State Board of Agriculture tender their 

 sympathy. 



Resolved, That a copy be sent to the widow of our departed friend 

 and be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of the Board. 



Your committee on resolutions beg leave to submit the following 

 resolution respecting the death of the Hon. Peter Melendy, who was an 

 honored member of this society of agriculture, being its vice-president from 

 the year 1863 to 1865 and its president from 1865 to 1869 and its treas- 

 urer for the year 1871. He was one of three who held the office of presi- 



