THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 33- APRIL, 1905. No. 4. 



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JOSEPH LANCASTER BUDD. 



Died Dec. 20, 1904, aged 69 years. 



Joseph Lancaster Budd was born near Peekskill on the Hud- 

 son, July 3, 1835. His boyhood days were spent on the home 

 farm and in the schools of Westchester County. While yet a 

 mere lad his parents moved to Sullivan County, in southern 

 New York. His young manhood was spent in helping his father 

 upon the farm and in teaching and attending school. He grad- 

 uated from the Monticello Normal Institute, and under the tu- 

 torage of Professor Gallup and Gardener Rupold prepared to 

 enter the sophomore year of Union College. At the moment 

 of the realization of his ambition, parental obligation called him 

 to lay aside all his cherished plans ; his father became financially 

 embarrassed and needed his aid. With a cheerful courage he 

 gave the years which he had hoped to spend in college to this 

 higher call of duty. It is thus that mortals are tested, and true 

 men are made. 



In 1857 he came to Illinois where he served for about two 

 years as principal of the Rockford high school and tutor in 

 mathematics in the Rockford Academy for boys. Following his 

 natural inclination toward horticultural pursuits, he formed at 

 this time a partnership with Mr. H. H. Fuller and embarked in 

 the nursery business at Wheaton, 111. He had been there but a 

 year or so when he purchased a tract of land near Shellsburg, 

 Iowa, and established the Benton County Nurseries, which were 

 afterward to become so well known in the horticulture of Iowa. 

 It was at Shellsburg that he first met Miss Sarah M. Breed, to 

 whom he was married January 26, 1861, at Iowa City. Two 



