THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 25. MAY, 1897. NO. 5. 



In ]V[|nQoriaii). 



EDWARD D. PORTER, PH. D. 



COLUMBIA, MO. 

 Died Januar3'- 5, 1895. 



Early on Saturdaj' morniug,Jan. 5,1895, at his home in the suburbs 

 of Columbia, died Dr. Edward D. Porter, Dean of the Colleg:e of 

 Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of 

 the University of Missouri, surrounded by his family and mourned 

 by a large circle of friends. His genial nature, his positive and ad- 

 mirable character, his wide knowledge and his vigorous mental and 

 physical activity in the direction of his duty leaves a gap in the 

 university community which it will be difficult to fill. Stricken 

 with a fatal malady on October 20, he yet persisted in attending to 

 many of the duties of his office to the verj^ last, and kept the hopes 

 of his daughters and of his friends alive by the determination not 

 to yield. The end came suddenly, as his physicians expected. 



Dr. Porter was born Aug, 12,1829, in Tinmouth, Rutland Co., Ver- 

 mont, but removed in early life to Michigan and later on to Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. His primary education was received in the schools of 

 New England, Michigan and Pennsylvania; he was graduated in 

 1851, with the highest honors, from the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and received before his graduation an appointment as Professor of 



