STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. IO9 



He has been a man among men, and his neighbors and towns- 

 men have deHghted to honor him with official responsibihties. 

 For nineteen years he was a member of the board of selectmen, 

 sixteen of which he served as chairman. Several times he was 

 elected chairman without a dissenting vote. New Gloucester is 

 known to be one of the best governed towns in this State, and it 

 is certainly a high tribute to hold the highest office so many years. 

 The town has long been out of debt, has long had the best of 

 schools, the best of highways, a good town house, fine public 

 library built and maintained by town, and all the other good 

 things that have contributed so largely to make New Gloucester 

 one of the most popular farming towns in Maine. For two 

 years he was town clerk, and the past three years he has 

 been town treasurer. He is a justice of the peace, and is now a 

 deputy sheriff of Cumberland county. 



Mr. True has long been identified with the agricultural inter- 

 ests of the town, county and State. For several years he was 

 trustee of the Cumberland County Agricultural Society and a 

 member of the Board of Agriculture. He was elected a member 

 of the executive committee of the Pomological Society in 1888, 

 and was elected year after year until he was chosen president of 

 the society in 1895 where he served four years, when he was 

 again elected a member of the executive committee. At our last 

 meeting he declined re-election. Mr. True's associates in this 

 society have always had the fullest confidence in his judgment, 

 and all the duties assigned him have been well performed. His 

 influence in building up the society has been far reaching. When 

 he became an officer of the society, there was a debt hanging over 

 the treasury and a deficiency in the permanent fund. So well 

 managed has the society been during these years he has the satis- 

 faction of retiring from office with the society's debts all paid and 

 a balance in the treasury, the deficiency in the permanent fund 

 made up and the fund safely invested. Less than a hundred life 

 members were enrolled when he became a member of the society ; 

 now there are 141. In his official relation to the society he has 

 always advocated the best interests of the organization, and in all 

 his words of counsel he has advocated improved methods and 

 progressive work. He was most convincing in his words to fruit 

 growers for what he told them grew out of his own experience 



among his trees and plants. 



D. H. K. 



