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COMMITTEE ON OBITUARY. 



J. S. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN. 



Mr. President and Members of the Minnesota State Horticul- 

 tural Society : — While we congratulate you on the prosperity of our 

 society, its increasing membership, the extending of its field of use- 

 fulness and the increased interest manifested in the promotion of our 

 cause, we are painfully reminded that some of our truest friends and 

 most earnest workers are absent. Since our last annual meeting there 

 have been removed by death. Col. John H. Stevens, Miss Sara M. 

 Manning, J. W. Boxell, E. B. Jordon, Maj. Alfred G. Wilcox, Mr. 

 C. Chadderdon and H. W. S. Cleveland. John H.Stevens died at his 

 home in Minneapolis on May 28, 1900. Since the organization of our 

 society no loss has been more keenly felt than that occasioned by the 

 death of Col. Stevens. He was one of the founders and charter mem- 

 bers of our society, one of its most earnest and truest friends. His 

 well tried integrity, his ability and capacity for work, his dignified 

 presence and the warm sympathy of his nature, were qualities which 

 gained for him the highest appreciation and regard of all who knew 

 him. He was elected an honorary life member of the society at the 

 annual meeting held at Minneapolis in January, 1880. (For portrait 

 and biography see "Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota," 1900, 

 page 321.) 



Miss Sara M. Manning died at Lake City, Minn., April 7, 1900, 

 aged 48 years. Miss Manning had been for many years an honorary 

 life member of our society. She was an earnest student and lover of 

 art and nature and well versed in the botany of Minnesota, and past 

 volumes of our reports contain able and well written articles from her 

 pen. (For biography see "Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota," 

 1900, page 241.) 



J. W. Boxell died at St. Paul (date not known to your commit- 

 tee). He was an active and useful member of the society for many 

 years and in 1893 became a regular life member. 



E. B. Jordon died at Ontario, California, March 10, 1900, aged 

 62. From 1868 until 1887 he was one of the most enterprising mem- 

 bers and workers of our society, and well known to all of our older 

 members and the horticulturists of the state. (For biography, see 

 "Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota," 1900, page 201.) 



Alfred G. Wilcox died suddenly at Hugo, Minn., June 6, 1900, 

 aged 59 years. He had been a member of the society but five years 

 prior to his death. He was a most earnest friend and champion of 

 horticulture, and had his life been spared longer, gave promise of 



