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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



IN MEMORIAM, MRS. A. A. KENNEDY 



Margaret Belinda Butler was born in Delmar, Tiogo Co., Penn., 

 June 22, 1839. Educated in tlie common school, she was married 

 to Mr. A. A. Kennedy in April, 1857, who, with seven children, 

 survives her. Sister Kennedy passed to her spirit side of life in 

 Idaho, January 28, 1905. 



With her husband and three children she came to Cedar Mills, 

 Meeker County, Minn., and settled on a homestead in 1864. They 

 returned to Pennsylvania in 1873, but came back to Minnesota in 

 1876 and settled near Hutchinson, where they were farming till 

 1896, when they moved to Hutchinson, where they resided till they 

 moved to Idaho in 1903. 



Mrs. A. A. Kennedy. 

 I,ate of Hutchinson, Minn. 



It was about 1884 Sister Kennedy became interested in horti- 

 culture. She devoted most of her attention to small fruits and 

 demonstrated to a disbelieving public around her that there was 

 money, health and happiness in growing small fruits. It was short- 

 ly after 1884 that Mrs. Kennedy joined this society, and at once 

 became a verv active member, alwavs with tongue and pen con- 



