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public health associations. His contributions to scientific litera- 

 ture were many and valuable. 



During the early years of this Academy Mr. KuichHng was an 

 active Fellow. In 1895 and 1898 he described to the society the 

 plans and the construction of the Hemlock conduit. The Roches- 

 ter Engineering Society had its beginning as a Section of the 

 Academy, with Kuichling as Chairman and J. Y. McClintock as 

 Recorder. 



He married Sarah L. Caldwell in 1879. He died in New York 

 City November 9, 1914. "He was a true and faithful citizen and 

 an able, fearless and kindly man, who left the impress of his work 

 on the city of his adoption and the impress of his rich personality 

 on all who were intimately associated with him." 



H. L. Fairchild. 



JOHN WALTON 

 (Read before the Academy, December 9, 1918.) 



Rev. John Walton was born in England, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 January 14, 1834. The name Walton came through his adoption 

 in childhood by an uncle. At the age of 12 he attended for two 

 years a Government School of Design and Art, and then was ap- 

 prenticed to a house painter for the term of seven years. In 1860 

 he came to America with his family and goods, and to Rochester, 

 by way of Canada, in 1863. For some years he worked for Frank 

 VanDorn, the sign painter, and it was by Walton's work that the 

 picture sign became popular. 



His art work for James Vick began in 1870, but was interrupted 

 by three years of ministerial work outside the city, 1874-1877. 

 From lettering cases and designing labels he became the artist of 

 the Vick Catalogue and the floral chromos, then in vogue. In 1879 

 Mr. Vick began the publication of Vick's Magazine, and Walton 

 supplied the artistic illustrations for over ten years. He painted 

 not only the colored plates of flowers and fruits but drew the black- 

 and-white sketches and the charming head and tail pieces. He 

 was also employed by the leading physicians of the city to make 

 colored drawings of surgical cases ; and in the later years he was 

 employed by the Park Board in preparation of botanical pictures. 



