OBITUARIES. 387 
OBITUARIES. 
DR. H. B. TRAIN. 
DIED AT HOKAH, MINN., JULY 28, 1891. 
Died at his home in Hokah, Houston Co., Minnesota, Tuesday, July 
28, 1891, after a long illness, Dr. H. B. Train, aged 66. 
The deceased was born in St.. Lawrence Co., New York, April 26, 1825; 
came to Wisconsin in 1845, to Minnesota in 1856, and settled permanently 
in Hokah in 1857. He was a devout Christian and temperance worker 
He first chose as a profession the preaching of the gospel but owing toa 
throat difficulty had to abandon it. He next turned his attention to the 
study of medicine and entered upon its practice on his arrival in Minne- 
sota. He succeeded in building up a good practice and was the 
trusted family physician in nearly every household in the village of Hokah 
and surrounding country until his own ill health compelled him to retire 
from practice. He was an enthuastic lover of horticulture and devoted 
his leisure hours to experiments in fruit culture, and was always noted 
for having the earliest and best garden and small fruits in the country. 
His large garden contained a considerable number of apple trees that for 
many years produced abundant crops of the finest fruit. He also im- 
proved every opportunity to encourage his neighbors to plant and care 
for fruit. His orchard was badly killed out in the winter of 1872 and ’73,and 
again in 1884 and ’85, but his faith in the final success of the apple in this 
state never wavered. He became a member of this State Horticultural 
Society in 1885, but since that time his health has permitted no active 
horticultural work. 
He was twice married. The second wife and two children of the first 
survive him. A useful and beloved friend, he will long be remembered 
by those who knew him. 
O. F. BRAND. 
GEORGE DORRANCE. 
DIED AT WALCOTT, MINN., NOV. 11, 1882. 
The subject of this, Mr. Geurge Dorrance, was born at Middlebury, Vt., 
December 28, 1814. From sixteen to twenty-one years of age he served an 
apprenticeship of five years at the carpenter and joiner’s trade. Having 
attained his majority, he came to Green Bay, Wis., in September, 1835, 
and assisted at the mission station of the M. E.Church for theSix Nation 
Indians. In 1841, he married Miss Etherlinda Lee, who was also a mis- 
sionary. That year he located in Rock Couuty, Wis., where he lost his - 
wife in 1850, who died leaving two children, the eldest of which survives. 
December 31, 18538, Mr. Dorrance was married to Miss Hannah M. Putman, 
who still lives on the old homestead,in the town of Walcott, Rice County, 
Minnesota, it being in the extreme eastern edge of the Big Woods, where 
they located in Aug.,1854. It was at that time an unbroken wilderness, un- 
surveyed, and still the hunting ground of the Sioux Indians. Theintention 
