THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 31. MARCH, 1903. No. 3. 



h IVTen^oriair^. 



EDWARD HARVEY SCHUYLER DARTT. 



DECEASED JAN. 31, 1903, AGED 78 YEARS. 



It is hard to realize that this man of strong mentaUty and per- 

 sistent purpose, so long a dominant force in the counsels of our so- 

 ciety, has completed his work with us and passed on. At the time of 

 his death, which took place at his home in Owatonna on January 31. 

 Mr. Dartt was in his seventy-ninth year, having been born on No- 

 vember 24, 1824. He was a native of Weathersfield, Vermont, where 

 he lived until the age of twenty, when he came west and remained 

 for some years in the neighborhood of Ripon, Wisconsin, attend- 

 ing college there and teaching school in 'that vicinity. About the 

 time of the opening of the Civil War he removed to Kingston in 

 that state, where he was engaged in general merchandising, holding 

 at the same time the offices of postmaster and justice of the peace. 

 Without doubt, in those stirring days a man of Mr. Dartt's tempera- 

 ment would have been in the army, if it had not been for an acci- 

 dent which at the age of sixteen left him with a stiffened knee, of 

 which infirmity all of his friends were aware. 



In 1869 Mr. Dartt came to Minnesota and took up his home in 

 Owatonna, where he resided continuously until the time of his death. 

 He engaged at once in the nursery business, and in the same year 

 he became a member of the state horticultural society, of which the 

 roll shows that he was continually thei:eafter a member with the 



