THE IROQUOIS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fig. 1326.— Mr. Wm. A. Whitney. 



Z>i pvlHIS is one of the new affiliated 



Societies, which was organized 



_[ this year with a membership of 



over sixty persons. 

 We have just received from Mr. T. S. 

 Edwards, the following sketch of the 

 newly elected president, Mr. W. A. 

 Whitney. 



Fig. 1327.— Residence of Mr. Wm. A. 

 Whitnky, Iroquois. 



Mr. Wm. A. Whitney, M.A., was born in 

 the County of Grenville, in 1834, and edu- 

 cated at Victoria College taking the degree of 

 B.A., in 1860 and M.A. in 1864. In 1860 he 

 became principal of the Iroquois High School 

 retaining the position for 26 consecutive years, 

 during which period he turned out many 

 young men who became prominent in profes- 

 sional life. He was also classical Master of 

 Morrisburg Collegiate Institute for seven and 

 a half years. 



He retired in 1893, since which time he has 

 turned his attention to the cultivation of flow- 



Fig. 1328.— Mrs. Alvah Brouse, 1st. Vice- 

 President, Iroquois Hort. Soc'y. 



ers and fruit and to bee culture. Indeed it is 

 not a new departure for Mr. Whitney as he 

 found a little leisure during his most active 

 years of toil to keep a profusion of flowers 

 and a good supply of fruit on his beautiful 

 premises, consisting of 10 acres on the bank 

 of the 8t. Lawrence just below the liastern 

 limit of the village. 



He was unanimously chosen President of 

 the Horticultural Society recently formed 

 here, and very properly so as he was mainly 

 instrumental in presenting the claims and 

 benefits of the Society to the public and secur- 

 ing such a large number of our best citizens 

 to become members. He is a man highly 

 esteemed in the community where he has lived 



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