THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 28. AUGUST, 1900. No. 8. 
In Memoriam, 
MAJOR ALFRED G. WILCOX, 
HUGO, MINN. 
DIED JUNE 6, 1900, AGED 59 YeEars. 
Major A. G. Wilcox, well known in Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper 
«circles, died suwddenty of heart failure, June 6th, at his summer home 
near Hugo, Minn. He was best known to many of the editors through 
‘his position as press agent of the state fair association. He discharged the 
duties of that office, as he did all others, pleasantly, expeditiously and with- 
out friction. 
Alfred Gould Wilcox was born March 31, 1841, in Madison, Ohio. He 
Tived on a farm, attended common schools and academy until fifteen years 
old, when he entered Oberlin college. He was in the junior year when the 
call for troops came under which the tosth Ohio was organized. He was 
commissioned first lieutenant of Company F, participating in all the raids, 
battles and skirmishes to the close of the war; was promoted to captain 
and assigned to Company F; mustered out as such, but later breveted major. 
‘Soon after the war, having chosen a literary occupation, served apprentice- 
ship as city editor of the Cleveland Leader. Afterwards he became con- 
secutively owner of the Journal, of Fremont, Ohio; Telegram, Richmond, 
Ind., and Courier, New Castle, Ind.; removed to Minneapolis in 1872, when 
he became manager of the Daily News, and afterwards the Tribune. Later 
he began subscription book publishing, his greatest success being the Buck- 
eye Cook Book, which has reached a sale of about 1,000,000 copies. In con- 
nection with these publications, he issued the Housekeeper, which, under 
his management, obtained a circulation of 120,000 in 1887. During this time 
he devoted much of his time to agricultural interests. Together with Col. 
W. M. Liggett he opened the Grand View stock farm at Benson: he was 
also owner of the famous Brookside farm at Kirkhoven, and has had much 
to do with introducing Holstein-Fresian cattle into Minnesota, and for three 
years has been the secretary of the State Live Stock Breeders’ Association. 
For the past five years he has resided with his family on his farm, three 
miles from Hugo, on the St.Paul & Duluth road, and for nearly four years 
