THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 24. OCTOBER, 1896. NO. 10. 



BARNETT TAYLOR, 



FORESTVILLE, MiNN. 

 Died August 9, 1896, ag-ed 68 years. 



Mr. Taylor was born in Greene county, Pa., May 12, 1830, and re- 

 moved to Green county. Wis., in 1850, livings at Juda, where he 

 married and erected one of the first buildings in the town. 



In 1857 he moved to Fillmore county, Minn., and settled in the vil- 

 lage of Forestville, where he lived for ten years, then moving a mile 

 from the village, where he built a beautiful home, and where, sur- 

 rounded with books, fruit, bees and flowers, he passed the rest of 

 his life. 



Mr. Taylor was of strong character and has left his impression in 

 the world, a great benefactor of Fillmore county and of the whole 

 Northwest. He established the first nursery in Minnesota, which, 

 while for years unprofitable to him, was of great value to the state. 

 Eighteen years ago he sold his nursery to C. Morgan and has since 

 devoted his time to bee culture. He was conceded to be authority 

 on all matters pertaining thereto by all apiarists in the United 

 States. He edited that department of the Farm, Stock and Home, 

 besides contributing valued articles to all the bee journals of the 

 land. He had a rare gift of inventive genius, which he exercised in 

 the interest of his beloved craft, and many valuable improvements 

 in connection with bee-keeping came from his hand. 



Mr. Barnett Taylor was a good, plain every-day man, honest from 

 the ground up, and thoroughly trusted by all who knew him. He 

 would scorn to do a wrong, and had a pure heart and clean hands, 

 admired by manj' and honored by all. 



Three children, Mrs. C. Morgan, H. S. Taylor (married) and Jewell 

 Taylor, who has always lived at home with his father, survive him. 



Mr. Taylor had been a member of this society, as the record 

 shows, since 1883. His face was a familiar one at its meetings, 

 and his voice was often heard in words of counsel. While his 

 attention was drawn principally to the keeping of bees, yet his 

 interest in horticulture was a large one, exceeded, probably, by 

 very few in our membership. We shall miss with sadness his 

 kindly smile and earnest voice. 



