412 ANNUAL REPORT 



IN MEMORIAM 



Following is the report of Committee on Obituary : 



During the past year death has taken from us William Cannon, 

 an old and highly esteemed member of this Society. He was formerly 

 a resident of Minnesota, but for several 3'ears past had resided at Fort 

 Abraham Lincoln, Dakota. 



PHILO WOODRUFF. 



The subject of this sketch, an honored member of this Society, and 

 one of the pioneer horticulturists of this State, died April 21, 1887. 

 The Farihault Republican of April 27th, says: 



" Hon. Philo Woodruff, a well known and highly respected citizen, 

 died very suddenly of heart disease, at his home on First street in this 

 city, on Thursday evening last. He had been in his usual health until 

 within an hour or two of his death. 



"Mr. Woodruff was born near Binghamton, Broom Co., N Y., in 

 April 1815. His father was a Calvanistic clergyman. The son came 

 west to Indiana, when a young man, attended college at Crawfords- 

 ville, and while completing his education worked during vacations at 

 carpentering and other mechanical trades. He assisted in the building 

 of the first Presbyterian church erected in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He 

 lived at and near St. Joseph, Mich., until 1852, when he went to 

 California. He came to Minnesota in May, 1855, and settled on a 

 farm in Waseca county, and was prominently identified with the early 

 development of his county. He was a man of good education, and 

 possessed of much general information. He represented Waseca 

 county in the legislature in 1864, and for four years after was engaged 

 as special examiner and appraiser of lands in the Sioux reservation. 

 In 1856 he planted a quantity of apple seeds, from which he raised a 

 number of fine seedling apples, which were productive for a number 

 of years. In 1857 he sent to Washington and got some Sorghum 

 seed; that fall he made the first syrup made in Waseca county, if not 

 in the State. In June, 1846, at Cleveland, Ohio, he was married to 



