THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 23 AUGUST, 1895. NO, 7. 
os iography. 
E. H. S. DARTT, OWATONNA, MINN. 
(SEE FRONTISPIECE.) 
E. H. S. Dartt was born in Salisbury, Addison county, Vermont, 
Nov. 24, 1824, making his present age seventy years. His ancestors 
were English,and Eliphalet, Joshua and John seem to have settled 
in Connecticut about the year 1700. His great grandfather, Joshua, 
removed from Boulton, Ct., to Surrey, N. H., before the revolution, 
and his many sons were active participants in the struggle for inde- 
pendance. His grandfather, Josiah Dartt, and his father, Josiah 
Dartt, were early settlers at Weathersfield, Vt. 
In July, 1844, the subject of our sketch made the trip alone from 
Goshen, Vt., to Dodge Co., Wis., being eighteen days on the road. 
Wisconsin was the frontier then, and he accepted with keen relish 
‘the novelty and the vicissitudes of pioneer life. Two years 
later he settled at Kingston, Wis., where he married and 
remained till 1868, when, with a view of securing better school ad- 
vantages for his children, he visited all the leading towns of Minne- 
sota, having previously visited Kansas, and finally settled at 
Owatonna. 
During his residence in Owatonna, he has been closely identified 
with all the improvements, and especially in the planting of trees, 
which go so far in beautifying acity. He served two terms, six years, 
as a member of the board of education, at one time being its presi- 
dent. In politics he is a staunch prohibitionist, 
When a boy in Vermont he learned to graft apple trees and has al- 
ways since had a strong inclination to engage in horticultural pur- 
suits. In Wisconsin he became a member of the State Horticultural 
Society in its infancy, and his orchard there contained more than 
1,000 well cared for trees. Hearrivedin Minnesota in time to become 
a charter member of the Minnesota Horticultural Society, and his 
orchard here at one time contained over 5,000 trees, though now re- 
duced to about 3,500. 
After the School for Indigent Children had been located at Owa- 
tonna, he conceived the thought of an experiment tree station on its 
grounds. «The state horticultural society recommended it, and the 
