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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



not taken for publication, and is all the more prized as evidence of 

 his interest in this happy occupation. 



Mr. Lord's earlier years were passed in the apple growing 

 region of western New York, being born in Wyoming county, in 

 1826. In 1836 the family removed to Michigan, where he received 

 his education, which was confined to the limited opportunities of- 

 fered by the country district school. He must have made good use 

 of these, however, as at the age of eighteen years we find him teach- 

 ing a winter school in his neighborhood, a pursuit he followed the 

 four succeeding winters, and until his marriage to Miss Martha E. 



RESIDENCE OF O. M. EORD. 



Deming, in 1848. In later years his experience and training as a 

 teacher brought him incidentally into the office of county superin- 

 tendent of schools, which position he filled in Winona county, in 

 the state of his adoption, for eight years. He has also filled many 

 other places of public trust, including a membership in the legisla- 

 tures of the territory and state, respectively, in the years 1854 and 



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Mr. Lord is best known to our readers in connection with his 



work in this society. His name first appears upon its membership 



roll in the year 1884. His attendance at the meetings of the society 



and a personal acquaintance with the membership at once brought 



him into prominence as one of its practical workers, which was 



