IN MEMORIAM, EDWARD HARVEY SCHUYLER DARTT. 83 



was difficult to talk and be understood, said to his daughter, "give 

 Philips my diary and scrap book to read ; it will be pleasanter for 

 him." I spent the best of the day in so doing. It commenced in 

 Green Lake county. Wis., in 1856 and closed in Owatonna in 1902 — 

 nearly fifty years of active life ! Every page bore evidence that his 

 whole life had been spent trying to benefit his fellow men and to 

 make the world better and pleasanter by his having lived in it. This 

 is the best tribute I can pay to his memory. Surely we shall miss 

 him. — A. J. Philips, West Salem, Wis. 



I enjoyed the acquaintance of Mr. E. H. S. Dartt for a number 

 of years and am indeed glad :hat I knew him. He was a man of a 

 peculiar make-up, as well as industrious, painstaking, able, energetic 

 and of strict integrity. He prospered and had reason to feel proud 

 of his prosperity. All with whom he came in contact will remember 

 his inimitable way of looking at the humorous and poetical side of 

 things, in spite of the fact that he was eminently practical in all 

 things. He was fond of a joke and good at repartee, but he could 

 take as well as give, and there was no sting of bitterness in his 

 humor. His essay on "Wind-mills" is a good example of his keen 

 flashes of wit. His multitude of friends loved him for his strong 

 individuality. Minnesota horticulture loses a strong and faithful 

 worker in the death of Mr. Dartt. — Prof. N. E. Hansen, Brookings. 

 S. D. 



His death is not alone a great loss to the horticultural interests 

 of the state, but it is an irreparable loss to the city of Owatonna, to 

 the improvement and beautifying of which he devoted the last ten 

 years of his life. Mr. Dartt's philanthropy led him to plan and im- 

 prove at his own expense a plot of ground converting it into a beauti- 

 ful park and throwing it open to the public. It is universally re- 

 gretted that his life w^as not spared to continue the improvements 

 he had in mind at the park and other portions of the city where he 

 had real estate interests. — Thos. E. Cashman, Owatonna. 



In the death of Mr. Dartt our society loses a valuable member. 

 He has experimented and contributed to our knowledge of fruit 

 growing, in a line marked out by himself and enthusiastically fol- 

 lowed, as he believed, with marked success. Though he was often 

 confronted with discouraging circumstances and sometimes sub- 

 jected to ridicule for his opinions, he persevered always with great 

 good nature and wonderful tenacity of purpose. Though he did not 

 succeed in full in accomplishing what he had set for himself to do, 

 his hopes and -efforts never faltered, and his work was so consci- 

 entiously and faithfully done that it is not necessary to go over 

 the ground again to reap the full benefit of his painstaking work. — 

 O. M. Lord, Minnesota City. 



Being somewhat of a neighbor, Mr. Dartt was one of the first 

 of the older members of the society with whom I became well ac- 

 quainted. Balanced judgment, aggressive honesty and benevolent 

 purpose, illumined with flashes of genial humor, are the traits of 

 character that seem to have impressed me as belonging to him. 

 When I passed up the familiar steps on the day he was buried it 

 seemed scarcely possible that I should not again see him seated 



