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RICHARD P. LUPTON. 
DIED AT EXCELSIOR, MINN., MARCH 12, 1892. 
Richard P. Lupton was born near Richmond, Ind., Feb. 12, 1845, and 
died at his home near Excelsior, Minn., March 12, 1892, leaving a wife and 
four children, the eldest 12 years of age. 
Mr. Lupton spent the earlier years of his life in Iowa, removing to Min- 
neapolis in 1874, where he engaged in business until he moved on to his 
farm near Excelsior about five years since, where he followed market 
gardening and the culture of small fruits, taking much pride and pleas- 
urein thesame. Though never robust he was full of energy. He took 
much interest in the proceedings of the State Horticultural Society, of 
which he was a member. Mr. Lupton was a devoted member of the 
Friends’ church anda strong advocate of temperance, having been a total 
abstainer from liquor and tobacco all his life, and a member of the Pro- 
hibition party since 1878, it being his fond hope to live to see his country 
free from the thralldom of strong drink. 
ISAAC GILPATRICK. 
DIED AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MARCH 3, 1892. 
IsAAC GILPATRICK was born in Limerick, Me., June 9th, 1827, and died 
in Minneapolis, March 3d, 1892. He was next to the youngest in a family 
of twelve children. At the age of sixteen he went to Massachusetts, and 
worked in a market garden near Boston until 1849, when he came to 
Minnesota, and at once found work in a sawmill in St. Anthony. 
Forsome years his winters were spent in the woods, lumbering, and his 
summers in breaking land; and in both occupations he was very success- 
ful. Soine thirty years ago he became associated with J. Bb. Bassett in the 
lumber business, and it was always with much satisfaction that he could 
look back upon those twenty years of partnership, and think that there 
had never been any unkind word or thought or act between himself and 
Mr. Bassett. Although a wise forethought and good business habits had 
secured a competency, yet during the last years of his life, that he spent 
in his comfortable home, the force of habit and natural inclination made 
him one of the most industrious of men, and he could be found, early and 
late, busy in his garden or with his poultry ; and it was probably this 
remarkable industry, this constant occupation of body and mind, that 
enabled him to ward off disease and thus prolong his life. 
Mr. Gilpatrick was a man of the most thorough honesty and the kindest 
heart, which was always prompting him to do deeds of kindness for others; 
and he never was so happy as when he could be helpful to some one, by 
counsel or advice or some act requiring personal sacrifice. He had the 
faculty of attaching friends to himself to a remarkable degree, and it was 
almost invariably the first remark when spoken of by his friends, that ‘‘ he 
Was a good man.” Few men could be taken from any community and 
leave such a sense of personal loss. 
Of Mr. Gilpatrick’s connection with the Hennepin County and the State 
Horticultural societies. the writer has little personal knowledge beyond 
